REU Site: SURFO - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography

该奖项为罗德岛大学（URI）的本科生研究经验（REU）项目提供了新的资金。该项目被称为海洋学暑期本科生研究奖学金（SURFO），提供为期10周的研究/教育项目，旨在每年让9名本科生接触到海洋大学前沿、真实的海洋学研究。位于美国罗德岛纳拉甘西特的美国海洋研究生院（GSO）。每个学生将与一名研究顾问和研究生合作，根据每个学生的背景和兴趣开发/开展海洋学领域的研究项目。SURFO计划填补的研究或教育利基涉及海洋学的更多定量方面，这与GSO/URI的优势密切相关。GSO还计划扩大研究项目的范围，包括可再生能源，以补充他们最近由国家资助的海上可再生能源研究卓越中心。参与者承担的研究项目通常是国家科学基金会资助的一个独立研究项目的一部分，但学生项目关注的是研究中一个意想不到的有趣方面。因此，这些项目往往是高风险和高回报的，对pi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体验到真实的前沿研究的成功和挫折。许多学生项目代表了后续研究计划或出版物的重要初步成果。该计划针对的主要本科人群包括在数学，物理，计算机科学和工程方面具有强大背景的学生。已完成本科三年级教育的学生优先参加，但合格的二年级学生或即将入学的大四学生也会被考虑。来自代表性不足的地球科学群体的学生和在本国机构接触海洋研究有限的学生受到高度追捧。SURFO计划使学生接触到跨各个子学科的广泛的海洋学研究。该项目让学生接触到研究生院的期望和生活方式。这些综合经验有望使研究生准备更充分，完成学位的时间更快。该站点由国防部与NSF REU项目合作支持。

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.