UMEB: Environmental Biology in the Pacific Islands

UMEB：太平洋岛屿的环境生物学

• 批准号: 0405380
• 负责人: Michael Hadfield
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0405380&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UMEB; Environmental; Biology; Pacific; Islands

"UMEB: Environmental Biology in the Pacific Islands," based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will train students from the Polynesian and Micronesian islands, highly under-represented in the biological sciences, to pursue professions in environmental biology. Coming from thousands of islands scattered over more than 160,00 square miles of the tropical Pacific Ocean, the UMEB interns, selected during their freshman and sophomore years, will have the opportunity to participate in environmentally relevant training and research at the University of Hawaii at Manoa or Chaminade University, a small private college near the UHM campus. The program will enroll up to seven student interns each summer, with 4 - 5 expected to continue with year-round support. As a cohort, the students will participate in a series of field trips to expose them to both nearly intact and heavily disturbed terrestrial and marine habitats and will attend lectures/discussions with participating faculty and with representatives from governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations that are concerned with environmental issues. Each student will join a research group in the laboratory of one of 11 mentors where s/he will gain hands-on research experience. With guidance from mentors, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other undergraduates in each laboratory, each Pacific Islands intern will gain skills by apprenticeship and undertake an individual research project on a topic such as endangered species conservation, impacts of invasive alien species, and the effects of pollutants on life processes at many levels. Each student's project will include a field component, so the participants become familiar with the problem they are studying in nature, as well as bench top lab activities. Students will present their research results each year at an end-of-summer symposium; students accepted into the full year program will be encouraged to develop their projects for presentation at national scientific meetings and for publication in professional journals. Over 4 years, the program will support 8 - 12 students to the completion of bachelor's degrees after which students are expected to apply for graduate schools or environmentally relevant jobs. The present grant builds on a prior UMEB award that supported 40 Pacific Islanders in environmental research, and provided a cohort of role models for the new group of students. The newly funded program will start with an excellent group of interns who were supported and trained on the prior UMEB award."UMEB: Environmental Biology in the Pacific Islands" includes a Research Opportunity Award (ROA) that will bring six instructors from Pacific Islands community colleges to the University of Hawaii, for 6 weeks of intensive exposure and training in local environmental problems and to conduct research into potential solutions. Through field trips, visits to active research laboratories, and lectures and practical in-lab training, participants will be taught modern approaches to environmental biology and the molecular methods for examining genetic diversity at a variety of levels. They will be supplied with modern equipment for performing such studies that they will take back to their home institutions to use in training and mentoring students and carrying out relevant research. Together with student-intern training of Pacific Islanders, the ROA effort will significantly improve the capacities to of the local community colleges to train and practice sound environmental practices and remediation.This program will produce a new and somewhat unique group of culturally-connected Pacific Islanders specifically trained to serve their home islands as informed leaders in natural resource protection and restoration. Further, they will be positioned to provide information to the world on the special problems experienced in island nations relative to topics such as resource sustainability, protection of biodiversity, management of coral-reef fisheries, integrated watershed management and control of invasive species. Because many of the targeted islands have long depended on the mainland U.S. for trained scientists to fill research, management and policy-oriented positions, environmental programs have often failed due to lack of follow up from those on short term contract and because of a lack of community acceptance and involvement. For more information, contact Dr. Michael G. Hadfield (Phone: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]).

“UMEB：设在马诺阿的夏威夷大学的“太平洋岛屿环境生物学”项目将培训来自波利尼西亚和波利尼西亚岛屿的学生从事环境生物学专业，这些学生在生物科学方面的代表性很低。 来自数千个岛屿分散在超过160，000平方英里的热带太平洋，UMEB实习生，在他们的大一和大二的选择，将有机会参加在环境相关的培训和研究在夏威夷大学马诺阿或查米纳德大学，一个小型私立学院附近的UHM校园。 该计划每年夏天将招收多达7名学生实习生，预计将有4 - 5名学生继续提供全年支持。 作为一个群体，学生将参加一系列实地考察，使他们接触到几乎完整和严重干扰的陆地和海洋生境，并将参加讲座/讨论与参与教师和来自政府机构和非政府组织的代表关注环境问题。 每个学生将加入11位导师之一的实验室的研究小组，在那里他/她将获得实践研究经验。 在每个实验室的导师，研究生，博士后研究员和其他本科生的指导下，每个太平洋岛屿实习生将通过学徒获得技能，并就濒危物种保护，外来入侵物种的影响以及污染物对生命过程的影响等主题开展个人研究项目。 每个学生的项目将包括一个领域的组成部分，使参与者熟悉他们在自然界中研究的问题，以及台式实验室活动。 学生每年将在夏季结束的研讨会上展示他们的研究成果;将鼓励被录取的学生开发他们的项目，在国家科学会议上展示，并在专业期刊上发表。 在4年的时间里，该计划将支持8 - 12名学生完成学士学位，之后学生有望申请研究生院或环境相关工作。 目前的赠款建立在先前的UMEB奖的基础上，该奖项支持了40名太平洋岛民的环境研究，并为新的学生群体提供了一批榜样。 新资助的项目将从一群优秀的实习生开始，他们在之前的UMEB奖上得到了支持和培训。“UMEB：太平洋岛屿环境生物学”项目包括一项研究机会奖（罗阿），将使太平洋岛屿社区学院的六名教员前往夏威夷大学，进行为期六周的当地环境问题强化接触和培训，并对潜在的解决方案进行研究。 通过实地考察，参观活跃的研究实验室，讲座和实际的实验室培训，参与者将学习环境生物学的现代方法和在各个层次上研究遗传多样性的分子方法。 将向他们提供进行这种研究的现代设备，他们将把这些设备带回自己的学校，用于培训和指导学生以及进行有关的研究。 罗阿项目将与对太平洋岛民的实习生培训一起，大大提高当地社区学院培训和实践健全的环境做法和补救措施的能力，这一方案将培养一批新的、有点独特的、文化上有联系的太平洋岛民，他们将受到专门培训，成为自然资源保护和恢复方面的知情领导人，为他们的家乡岛屿服务。 此外，它们将能够向世界提供关于岛屿国家在资源可持续性、保护生物多样性、管理珊瑚礁渔业、综合流域管理和控制入侵物种等专题方面遇到的特殊问题的资料。由于许多目标岛屿长期以来一直依赖美国大陆训练有素的科学家来填补研究、管理和政策导向的职位，因此环境项目往往因短期合同人员缺乏后续行动以及缺乏后续行动而失败。社区接受和参与。 欲了解更多信息，请联系Michael G.哈德菲尔德（电话：808-539-7319;电子邮件：[e-mail]）。