REU Site: SURFO - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography

REU 网站：SURFO - 海洋学夏季本科生研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0851794
• 负责人: Robert Pockalny
• 金额: $ 28.68万
• 依托单位: University of Rhode Island
• 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: 2009-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851794&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; SURFO; Summer; Undergraduate

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.

该奖项为罗德岛大学（URI）的本科生（REU）计划的研究经验提供了新的资金。该计划称为海洋学（Surfo）的夏季本科研究奖学金，并提供了为期10周的研究/教育计划，旨在将每年9个本科生揭露到位于RI的Narragansett的URI海洋学研究生院（GSO）的尖端，真实的，真实的，海洋学研究。每个学生将与研究顾问和研究生合作，在适合每个学生的背景和兴趣的海洋学领域开发/进行研究项目。 Surfo计划所填写的研究或教育利基涉及海洋学的更定量方面，这与GSO/URI的优势紧密相同。 GSO还计划扩大研究项目的范围，包括可再生能源，以补充其最近由州资助的卓越中心进行离岸可再生能源的研究。参与者进行的研究项目通常是单独的NSF资助研究计划的一部分，但该学生项目重点介绍了研究的有趣方面。因此，这些项目通常是高风险和高回报的，为PIS或研究生的支持没有预算。这些类型的项目确实使学生可以欣赏真实，尖端研究的成功和挫败感。许多学生项目代表了随后的研究建议或出版物的重要初步结果。该计划针对的主要本科生包括具有数学，物理，计算机科学和工程学方面强大背景的学生。已经完成了大三的本科教育的学生是首选的参与者，但还考虑了合格的大二学生或入学的老年人。地球科学中代表性不足的群体的学生和在其家庭机构接触海洋学研究的学生受到了极大的要求。 Surfo计划使学生在各个子学科中暴露了大量的海洋学研究。该计划使学生接触研究生院的期望和生活方式。预计这些结合经验将导致研究生做好准备，并且学位的完成时间更快。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。