IRES: Tropical Ecology Mentorship Program of CSU Dominguez Hills

IRES：科罗拉多州立大学多明格斯山热带生态学导师计划

• 批准号: 1130156
• 负责人: Terrence McGlynn
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: California State University-Dominguez Hills Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1130156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Tropical; Ecology; Mentorship; Program

This three-year International Research Experiences for Students project will provide undergraduate students, graduate students, and K-12 teachers with an international collaborative research experience in a tropical rainforest setting. Under the joint mentorship of Terrence P. McGlynn of the California State University Dominguez Hills and several U.S. and international research partners, participants will spend eight summer weeks investigating contemporary hypotheses in the field of trophic interactions by addressing the transfer of energy and nutrients across trophic levels. Projects will address spatial heterogeneity in resources and the consequences for ecological processes at the community and ecosystem levels. These experiments will take place at La Selva Biological Reserve in Costa Rica, in cooperation with Dr. Deedra McClearn of the Organization for Tropical Studies. In each of the three years the participant cohorts will include at least one graduate student, several undergraduate students, and an inner-city teacher. Each cohort will also be joined by up to two research recruits, talented students from underrepresented groups who are unable to commit for a full summer, but who would benefit from exposure to scientific research. The goal of this activity is to train talented students from underrepresented groups to become field ecologists with experience in international settings. To accomplish this goal the senior investigators will mentor the students in their long-term tropical-field research projects, first during an eight-week session at the tropical rain forest field station. The students will then continue their research at their home institutions in a year-round mentored research experience. Among the broader impacts of this IRES program are the promotion of international research collaborations; the creation of mentorships in the sciences for undergraduates from underrepresented groups; involvement of undergraduates from primarily undergraduate institutions in an active research environment with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty; and extensive field research experiences for minority undergraduates that should help increase the success of these students in graduate programs in the sciences. The project will also further research collaborations between U.S. and Costa Rican scientists and other international researchers pursuing ongoing projects in Costa Rica.

这个为期三年的学生国际研究经验项目将为本科生，研究生和K-12教师提供在热带雨林环境中的国际合作研究经验。 在加州州立大学多明格斯山分校的Terrence P. McGlynn和几个美国和国际研究合作伙伴的共同指导下，参与者将花费八个夏季周的时间，通过解决营养水平之间的能量和营养物质转移，研究营养相互作用领域的当代假设。 项目将处理资源的空间异质性以及对社区和生态系统一级生态进程的影响。 这些实验将在哥斯达黎加的La Selva生物保护区与热带研究组织的Deedra McClearn博士合作进行。 在这三年中的每一年，参与者队列将包括至少一名研究生，几名本科生和一名市中心教师。 每个队列还将加入最多两名研究人员，他们是来自代表性不足的群体的有才华的学生，他们无法承诺整个夏天，但他们将从科学研究中受益。 这项活动的目标是培养来自代表性不足群体的有才华的学生，使他们成为具有国际环境经验的实地生态学家。为了实现这一目标，高级研究人员将指导学生进行长期的热带实地研究项目，首先是在热带雨林野外考察站进行为期八周的培训。然后，学生将继续在他们的家乡机构在全年指导研究经验的研究。该IRES计划的更广泛影响包括促进国际研究合作;为代表性不足的群体的本科生创建科学指导;主要来自本科院校的本科生与研究生，博士后研究人员和教师一起参与积极的研究环境;以及为少数民族本科生提供广泛的实地研究经验，这将有助于提高这些学生在科学研究生课程中的成功率。该项目还将进一步加强美国和哥斯达黎加科学家以及其他在哥斯达黎加进行中项目的国际研究人员之间的研究合作。