REU Site: The Science of Global Change and Sustainability

该奖项将支持由德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校S环境科学研究所主持的关注全球变化和可持续发展科学的REU项目。该项目的目标是为REU学生提供引人入胜的研究体验、科学探究的兴奋、职业发展机会以及对研究生院和科学职业的开阔视角。此外，学生研究人员将致力于校园可持续发展的方法，作为解决全球变化问题的本地方法。全球变化科学的真正进步需要一种非传统的跨学科方法，将地质学、水文学和生态学等基础科学与城市生态学、工程学和政策等应用科学和社会科学相结合。这一REU计划将提供培养和激励未来综合科学家所需的具体学科培训和协作经验。REU的学生将遵循一个项目，允许他们进行实地研究，分析最先进的仪器样本，与多个系的研究生和教职员工互动解读结果，在全校海报会议上展示结果，然后在全国专业会议上展示结果，并参加关于研究伦理、全球变化科学主题和科学政策接口的研讨会。

This award will support an REU program focus on The Science of Global Change and Sustainability hosted by the Environmental Science Institute?s at the University of Texas - Austin. The goals of the program are to provide REU students with an engaging research experience, the excitement of scientific inquiry, professional development opportunities, and an expanded perspective regarding graduate school and a science career. Additionally, student researchers will be engaged in approaches to campus sustainability as a local way to address issues of global change. Real advancements in global change science require a non-traditional, interdisciplinary approach that integrate basic sciences such as geology, hydrology, and ecology, with applied and social sciences such as urban ecology, engineering, and policy. This REU program will provide both the specific disciplinary training and collaborative experiences necessary to develop and inspire future integrative scientists. REU students will follow a program that allows them to conduct field research, analyze samples on state-of-the-art instrumentation, interact with graduate students and faculty in multiple departments to interpret the results, present the results at a campus-wide poster session and then at a national professional meeting, and participate in seminars on research ethics, global change science topics, and the science-policy interface.