REU-Undergraduate Research On Microbial, Vegetation, and Arthropod Communities in Forests and Managed Lands in New Jersey and Costa Rica

2010年夏天，肯恩大学获得一项奖励，为6名学生提供为期10周的研究培训。这6名学生将与3名教师一起进行研究，分析数据，并撰写研究出版物，包括评估和比较哥斯达黎加和美国东北部完整和管理的森林中植被、节肢动物和土壤微生物群落的结构、多样性和生物量，以及土壤C和N成分的组成。通过这个项目，学生和教师将：1)识别栖息地状况的潜在指标；2)确定土壤养分差异是否与不同营养水平的生物群差异相关，或被确定为驱动因素；3)确定在美国东部和哥斯达黎加研究的地区内部和/或之间是否可以看到按栖息地类型或管理策略划分的类似生态意义模式。这些学生，包括那些来自代表性不足群体的学生，将从肯恩大学生物项目和能源部罗纳德·麦克奈尔项目、其他大学以及肯恩大学的普通学生群体中招募。学生将利用“研究伦理教育资源”网站（http://research-ethics.net/topics/）作为主要资源，接受“研究伦理”方面的培训。SURE （http://web.grinnell.edu/sureiii/）和（http://www.colorado.edu/eer/research/ undergradtools.html）工具将用于确定学生对自己能力的科学认知是如何变化的；这个项目是否会影响他们如何看待自己是科学家；他们的主要成就是什么；以及他们对生态/环境科学的全球视角的发展。欲了解更多信息，请联系比尔·伊顿博士，肯恩大学环境与生命科学学院，1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ 07083；908-737-3653;weaton@kean.edu;http://www.kean.edu/ sels /资源/ REU2010.pdf。

An award was made to Kean University to provide research training for 10 weeks for 6 students, for the summer of 2010. The 6 students will work with 3 faculty conducting research, analyzing data, and writing research publications involving assessment and comparison of the structure, diversity, and biomass of vegetation, arthropod, and soil microbial communities, and the composition of soil C and N components within intact and managed forests of Costa Rica and the northeastern United States. Through this project students and faculty will: 1) identify potential indicators of habitat condition; 2) determine if nutrient differences in soil can be correlated with, or determined as, drivers of differences in the biota of the different trophic levels; and 3) determine if similar patterns of ecological significance by habitat type or management strategy can be seen within and/or between areas studied in the eastern US and Costa Rica. The students, including those from underrepresented groups, will be recruited from the Kean University Biology Program and DOE Ronald McNair program and from other universities, and from the general student population at Kean University. Students will receive training in Ethics in Research, using the Resources for Research Ethics Education website (http://research-ethics.net/topics/) as the primary resource. Both the SURE (http://web.grinnell.edu/sureiii/) and (http://www.colorado.edu/eer/research/ undergradtools.html) instruments will be used to determine how students' perceptions of science of their own abilities have changed; whether the program influences how well they see themselves as scientists; what their primary accomplishments have been; and their development of a global perspective on the ecological/environmental sciences. For more information, contact Dr. Bill Eaton, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ 07083; 908-737-3653; weaton@kean.edu; http://www.kean.edu/~sels/resources/REU2010.pdf.