REU Site: Aquatic Chemical Ecology at Georgia Tech

REU 站点：佐治亚理工学院水生化学生态学

• 批准号: 0851606
• 负责人: Julia Kubanek
• 金额: $ 39.72万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851606&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Aquatic; Chemical; Ecology

This award provides renewed funding for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at Georgia Institute of Technology. The program will support nine students per year during a ten week summer research program. Students will conduct independent research projects on aquatic chemical ecology. Chemical cues mediate a variety of critical ecological processes, including inter- and intraspecific competition, predator-prey, host-parasite, and mutualistic interactions. These cues are used by organisms to locate food, evade predators, select mates, form aggregations, launch cooperative behaviors, construct social hierarchies, and choose suitable environments. Chemical signaling appears to be especially important in aquatic environments, where visual and auditory transmission of signals is often impeded. Chemically-mediated interactions have ecological and evolutionary consequences at the individual, population, community, and ecosystem levels. The program will stress interdisciplinary research as a tool to solve complex problems and promote an appreciation for the importance of chemically-mediated processes in basic and applied research. Recruiting will focus on students from non-PhD granting institutions and minority students.

该奖项为格鲁吉亚理工学院的本科生研究经验（REU）计划提供了新的资金。该计划将在为期十周的夏季研究计划期间每年支持九名学生。学生将进行水生化学生态学的独立研究项目。化学信号介导了多种关键的生态过程，包括种内和种间竞争、捕食者-猎物、宿主-寄生虫和互利互惠的相互作用。这些线索被生物体用来定位食物、躲避捕食者、选择配偶、形成集群、发起合作行为、构建社会等级和选择合适的环境。化学信号在水生环境中显得尤为重要，因为在水生环境中，视觉和听觉信号的传递往往受到阻碍。化学介导的相互作用在个体、种群、社区和生态系统层面上具有生态和进化后果。 该计划将强调跨学科研究作为解决复杂问题的工具，并促进对化学介导过程在基础和应用研究中的重要性的认识。 招聘将集中在非博士授予机构和少数民族学生的学生。