REU-site: The Keck Geology Consortium--Providing Collaborative Yearlong Opportunities for Undergraduates

凯克地质联合会，包括18个主要的本科院校，将提供暑期研究经验，每年约48名本科生三年，建立在20年的成功编程由原来的12个机构。 学生将从18所学校中招募，25%至30%将来自非联盟机构。 夏季研究项目将在下一学年继续作为独立的研究项目，并在春季举行的凯克年度研究研讨会上发表演讲。 学生将在年度会议记录中发表简短的贡献，并鼓励他们在区域和国家学科会议上展示自己的工作。 凯克地质联合会计划的智力价值包括结合实地和实验室研究经验，这将在结构地质学，古生物学和古生态学，古气候学以及火成岩和变质岩石学，沉积学和地层学以及水文地质学领域做出有意义的科学贡献。 为期一年的凯克联盟计划影响学生的科学和地球科学研究技能;提供了一个强大的科学经验，最终在年度研究研讨会上展示结果并在会议记录中发表;并扩大了女性和少数群体在夏季研究经验中的参与。

The Keck Geology Consortium, comprising 18 primarily undergraduate institutions, will offer summer research experiences for approximately 48 undergraduates each of three years, building on 20 years of successful programming by the original 12 institutions. Students will be recruited from the 18 schools, and 25 to 30% will come from non-Consortium institutions. Summer research projects will be continued in the following academic year as independent study projects, with presentations at the culminating Keck Annual Research Symposium in the spring. Students will publish short contributions in the annual proceedings volume and will be encouraged to present their work at regional and national disciplinary meetings. The intellectual merit of the Keck Geology Consortium program includes the combined field and laboratory research experiences that will make meaningful scientific contributions in the areas of structural geology, paleontology and paleoecology, and paleoclimatology as well as igneous and metamorphic petrology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, and hydrogeology. The yearlong Keck Consortium program impacts students' scientific and geoscience research skills; provides a robust scientific experience culminating in presentation of results at the annual research symposium and publication in the proceedings volume; and broadens participation of females and minority groups in summer research experiences.