REU Site: The influence of climate change on biogeochemical processes in northern ecosystems: An international perspective in Earth System Science

这个REU项目将侧重于为学生提供地球系统科学（ESS）的研究经验，特别强调研究气候变化对北部高地和湿地生态系统生物地球化学过程的影响。在这个多方面的项目中，我们将在前四周将学生带到新罕布什尔大学（UNH），为他们提供ESS和生物地球化学的背景知识，并培训他们的实验室和现场技术。在此期间，他们将与一名研究导师一起制定研究问题，然后在瑞典北部永久冻土区的项目的第二部分进行探索。参与者将在瑞典阿比斯库科学研究站（ANS）度过第二个四周。气候变暖正在影响地球化学、水文和生物循环，这是有充分记录的少数几个地点之一。在ANS， REU的学生将完全融入国际科学界，因为他们收集样本和数据来支持他们的研究项目。在REU项目的最后两周，学生们将回到UNH分析他们的数据，完成任何必要的额外分析，总结他们的发现并向他们的同行和导师展示他们的研究，并准备将他们的研究提交给国际科学会议。该REU计划将通过研究过程促进教学、培训和学习。UNH-Abisko地球系统科学REU扩展了这些目标，为学生提供一个系统的视角，强调地球系统的各个方面是如何受到气候变化的影响的。该项目将加强下一代科学家的教育，为他们提供跨学科合作的基础，这是解决新兴的全球环境和能源政策问题的关键。REU的参与者还将通过与政策和教育专家的协调访问，获得与非专家听众交流其科学发现的经验。除了学生培训之外，ESS REU项目还提供综合跨学科的科学活动，并加强了UNH与世界一流现场之间的合作联系。

This REU program will focus on providing student research experiences in Earth System Science (ESS), with special emphasis on investigating the impacts of climate change on biogeochemical processes in northern upland and wetland ecosystems. In this multifaceted program, we will bring students for the first four weeks to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to provide them with background knowledge of ESS and biogeochemistry and to train them in laboratory and field techniques. During that time they will work with a research mentor to develop research questions they will then explore during the second part of the program in the permafrost region of Northern Sweden. The participants will spend the second four weeks at the Abisko Scientific Research Station (ANS), Sweden. ANS is one of the few locations where it is well documented that climate warming is affecting the geochemical, hydrological and biological cycles. At ANS, the REU students will be fully integrated into an international scientific community as they collect samples and data to support their research projects. For the final two weeks of their REU program, the students will return to UNH to analyze their data, complete any requisite additional analyses, summarize their findings and present their research to their peers and mentors, and prepare to submit their research for presentation at an international scientific meeting. This REU program will promote teaching, training and learning through the research process. The UNH-Abisko REU in Earth System Science extends these goals to provide students a systems perspective that emphasizes how aspects of the Earth system are impacted by climate change. This program will enhance the education of the next generation of scientists by giving them a foundation in interdisciplinary collaboration, an essential key in addressing emerging global environmental and energy policy issues. REU participants will also gain experience in communicating their scientific findings with an audience of non-specialists via coordinated visits with policy and education experts. In addition to student training, this ESS REU program provides integrative cross-disciplinary scientific activities and enhances the collaborative links between UNH and a world-class field site.