REU Site: SURFO - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography

该奖项为罗德岛大学(URI)的本科生研究体验(REU)项目提供新的资金。该项目名为夏季本科生海洋学研究奖学金(SURFO)，提供为期10周的研究/教育项目，旨在让9名本科生每年接触位于密苏里州纳拉甘西特的乌里？S海洋研究生院的尖端、真实的海洋研究。每名学生将与一名研究顾问和研究生一起开发/实施一个适合每个学生背景和兴趣的海洋学领域的研究项目。SURFO计划填补的研究或教育领域涉及海洋学的更多量化方面，这与GSO/URI的优势密切相关。GSO还计划扩大研究项目的范围，将可再生能源包括在内，以补充他们最近由国家资助的海上可再生能源研究英才中心。参与者承担的研究项目通常是NSF资助的单独研究项目的一部分，但学生项目关注的是研究中出乎意料的有趣方面。因此，这些项目往往是高风险和高回报的，对私人投资机构或研究生的支持没有列入预算。这些类型的项目真正让学生品尝到了真正的尖端研究的成功和挫折。许多学生专题为后续研究提案或出版物提供了重要的初步成果。该计划的主要本科生群体包括在数学、物理、计算机科学和工程学方面有很强背景的学生。完成大三本科教育的学生是首选参与者，但资质良好的大二学生或入学大四学生也会被考虑。来自地球科学中代表性不足的群体的学生和在本国机构接触海洋研究有限的学生非常受欢迎。SURFO项目让学生接触到不同子学科的广泛的海洋研究。该项目为学生提供了接触研究生的期望和生活方式的机会。这些经验结合在一起，预计将使研究生准备得更充分，完成学位的时间更快。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作提供支持。

This award provides renewed funding for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Rhode Island (URI). The program is called the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography (SURFO) and offers a 10-week research/educational program designed to expose 9 undergraduates per year to cutting-edge, authentic, oceanographic research at the URI?s Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) located in Narragansett, RI. Each student will work with a research advisor and graduate student to develop/conduct a research project in an area of oceanography appropriate to each student's background and interests. The research or educational niche filled by the SURFO program deals with the more quantitative aspects of oceanography, which closely parallels the strengths of GSO/URI. GSO also plans to expand the scope of the research projects to include renewable energy to complement their recently state-funded center of excellence for Research on Offshore Renewable Energy. The research projects undertaken by participants are typically part of a separate NSF funded research program, but the student project focuses on an interesting aspect of the research that was not anticipated. As such, these projects are often high-risk and high-reward for which support for the PIs or graduate students was not budgeted. These types of projects truly give the student a taste of the successes and frustrations of authentic, cutting-edge research. Many of the student projects represent important initial results for subsequent research proposals or publications. The primary undergraduate population targeted by the program includes students with strong backgrounds in math, physics, computer science, and engineering. Students who have completed their junior year of undergraduate education are preferred participants, but well-qualified sophomores or matriculating seniors are also considered. Students from under-represented groups in the geosciences and students with limited exposure to oceanographic research at their home institutions are highly sought. The SURFO program exposes students to a broad spectrum of oceanographic research across various sub-disciplines. The program provides students with exposure to the expectations and lifestyle of graduate school. These combined experiences are expected to result in better-prepared graduate students and faster degree completion times. The site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.