Track 2: Developing a Sustainable RESESS Program

面向学生的固体地球科学研究体验(RESESS)计划已成为一个成功的计划，为来自科学领域代表性不足人群的地球科学本科生提供多年暑期研究实习机会。学生在二年级或三年级被录取，并完成为期10周的实习，其中包括研究、领导力培训、为期8周的沟通研讨会、多方面的指导和最后的座谈会。通过该奖项获得的额外资金将用于通过扩大实习生数量、扩大计划的科学内容和地理覆盖范围，以及基于计划基础设施和传播式指导建立可持续发展模式，将RESESS推向更高的成功水平。扩大后的计划每年将支持至少12名实习生，学生们在博尔德度过他们的头两年，然后在为期10周的暑期体验期间过渡到美国各地的研究导师那里工作。RESESS将继续与获奖的大气研究和科学重大机遇(SOARS)计划继续成功合作。通过扩大伙伴关系，正在实现向更分散的指导模式的扩展--这是必要的，因为没有类似国家大气研究中心(NCAR)的地质界和地球物理界的中央研究机构。这些合作伙伴包括科罗拉多州戈尔登的美国地质调查局(USGS)的科学家、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的科学家、联安部队的工作人员、联防部队和联合地震研究所(IRIS)研究财团的科学家以及科罗拉多多样性倡议和加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的新合作伙伴。实习生研究项目预计将包括以下主题：全球定位系统的技术方面、分析亚洲地震的地震活动、模拟火山岩浆运动、安装全球定位系统网络以监测区域构造、昆虫对化石树叶的破坏的古气候分析、南极洲的线条构造等。为了使该计划在国家科学基金资助之外持续下去，RESESS正在探索卓越商业绩效模式的效用，同时让社区参与增加科学和财政资源，并探索多样化的资金来源。

The Research Experience in Solid Earth Science for Students (RESESS) program has established itself as a successful program for multi-year summer research internships for Earth science undergraduates from populations underrepresented in science. Students are recruited in their sophomore or junior year and complete 10-week internships that include research, leadership training, an eight-week communication workshop, multi-faceted mentoring, and a final colloquium. Additional funding through this award is being used to take RESESS to the next level of success by expanding the number of interns, extending the scientific content and geographic reach of the program, and building a model for sustainability based on a program infrastructure with disseminated mentoring. The expanded program will support a minimum of 12 interns per year, with students spending their first two years in Boulder and then transitioning to work with research mentors throughout the United States during their 10-week summer experience. RESESS will continue a successful collaboration with the award-winning Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) program. Expansion into a more distributed model of mentoring - necessary because there is no central research facility analogous to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for the geology and geophysics community - is being achieved through expanded partnerships. These partners include scientists in the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Golden, Colorado, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, staff at UNAVCO, and scientists of the UNAVCO and Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) research consortia, along with new partners in the Colorado Diversity Initiative and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Intern research projects are expected to include topics such as the technical aspects of GPS, analyzing the seismicity of Asian earthquakes, modeling volcanic magma movement, installing GPS networks to monitor regional tectonics, paleoclimate analyses of insect damage to fossil leaves, lineaments in Antarctica, and others. To sustain the program beyond NSF funding, RESESS is exploring the utility of the Business Performance Excellence model, while engaging the community for increased scientific and financial resources and exploring diversified funding sources.