REU Site: Effects of Energy Technologies on Environmental Systems

REU 网站：能源技术对环境系统的影响

• 批准号: 0453493
• 负责人: J. Vaun McArthur
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-01 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0453493&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Effects; Energy; Technologies

The Savannah River Ecology Laboratory's (SREL) REU program provides scientific training and hands-on experience in research by actively involving undergraduates, especially those from under-represented groups, in projects with full time research scientists. Participants examine the influence of nuclear and fossil fuel energy production and associated technologies on biological properties of southeastern ecosystems. SREL is located on the US Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS), where a variety of habitats including pine and hardwood forests, abandoned farmlands, and freshwater streams and wetlands adjoin industrial facilities and anthropogenically-disturbed areas. The REU program seeks diversity and actively recruits minority applicants. Students accepted into the program are paired with faculty members with compatible interests, and perform independent research projects that interface with ongoing research at SREL. Faculty research areas are diverse, spanning scales from molecular to landscape, and involving plants, animals, and microbes as well as environmental chemistry, statistics and environmental remediation. Students participate in a series of workshops on research design, ethics, data collection and processing, and oral and written presentation of results. Students also participate in brown bag seminar-discussion groups and field trips to representative field sites. At the conclusion of the program, each student presents a brief seminar on their project before their peers and SREL faculty and staff, and prepares a scientific manuscript based on their research. Credit (3 hrs) for the research experience is available through the University of Georgia. For more information, students are encouraged to contact [e-mail] or visit www.uga.edu/srel/REU/index.htm.

萨凡纳河生态实验室(SREL)REU项目通过让本科生，特别是那些来自代表人数不足的群体的本科生，积极参与有全职研究科学家的项目，提供科学培训和研究实践经验。与会者审查了核能和化石燃料能源生产及相关技术对东南生态系统生物特性的影响。SREL位于美国能源部的萨凡纳河遗址(SRS)，那里有各种栖息地，包括松树林和阔叶林、废弃的农田、淡水溪流和湿地，毗邻工业设施和受人类干扰的地区。REU计划寻求多样性，并积极招募少数族裔申请者。被录取到该项目的学生与兴趣相投的教职员工配对，并执行与SREL正在进行的研究相结合的独立研究项目。学院的研究领域多种多样，从分子到景观，涉及植物、动物和微生物以及环境化学、统计学和环境修复。学生们参加了一系列关于研究设计、伦理、数据收集和处理以及结果的口头和书面陈述的研讨会。学生还参加棕色袋子研讨会-讨论小组和到有代表性的实地考察地点。在项目结束时，每个学生在他们的同龄人和SREL教职员工面前介绍他们的项目的简短研讨会，并根据他们的研究准备一份科学手稿。研究经验的学分(3小时)可通过佐治亚大学获得。如需更多信息，欢迎学生联系[e-mail]或访问www.uga.edu/srel/rEU/index.htm。