REU Site: Biological impacts of climate change: testing hypotheses with collections and long-term data

加州大学圣克鲁斯分校(UCSC)设立了本科生研究体验(REU)网站奖，在2013-2015年的暑假期间为8名学生提供为期8周的研究培训。气候变化是我们这个时代压倒一切的环境问题，它导致许多物种的分布和丰富性发生巨大变化，并可能威胁到人们的生活方式。该REU将培训学生使用关键工具来理解气候变化的生物学反应机制，包括：1)物种的生理/生态限制；2)物种相互作用的变化；以及3)使人能够区分气候变化和其他影响物种多样性和地理分布的自然或人为因素的假设检验。学生将在加州大学伯克利分校系导师的指导下，研究各种有机体、系统和具体问题。生态与进化生物学和系。环境研究中心和几个区域组织。项目之间的共同线索包括1)测试假说；2)从博物馆和教师研究中收集长期数据集；3)测量关键的生理/行为特征或生态相互作用；4)基于未来气候情景预测物种分布和/或生态系统的变化；以及5)进行实地工作，以证实他们的预测。REU将根据他们的学业成绩和研究潜力，选拔和培养24名本科生，其中包括许多少数民族学生。所有学生都将得到指导，帮助他们提高沟通技能，为他们的教育和职业寻找资源，并认可和评价他们对科学的贡献。REU计划包括关于对其项目至关重要的方法和概念的讲座、讨论和研讨会，以及相关的实地考察。这些学生还将加入UCSC现有的针对STEM学科少数族裔学生的本科生研究项目，参加关于科学伦理和交流的研讨会。学生将被跟踪，以确定他们对科学的持续兴趣，职业道路，以及他们的REU经验的持久影响。该计划将通过各种手段进行评估，包括REU通用评估工具。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://reu.eeb.ucsc.edu/，，或联系国际和平组织(巴里·西纳沃博士，电子邮件：lizardrps@gmail.com)或联合国际组织(劳雷尔·福克斯博士，电子邮件：fox@ucsc.edu)。

A Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Sites award has been made to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to provide research training for eight students for eight weeks during the summers of 2013-2015. Climate change, the overriding environmental issue of our time, causes drastic changes in the distributions and abundances of many species and potentially threatens peoples' ways of life. This REU will train students to use critical tools to understand mechanisms underlying biological responses to climate change, including: 1) physiological/ecological limits of species; 2) changes in species' interactions; and 3) hypothesis testing that enables one to discriminate between climate change and other natural or anthropogenic factors affecting species diversity and geographical distributions. Students will work on a diversity of organisms, systems, and specific questions guided by mentors from UCSC's Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Dept. of Environmental Studies, and several regional organizations. The common threads among projects include 1) testing hypotheses; 2) assembling long-term data sets from museums and faculty research; 3) measuring key physiological/behavioral traits or ecological interactions; 4) predicting changes in species' distributions and/or ecosystems based on future climate scenarios; and 5) conducting field work to ground-truth their predictions. This REU will select and train 24 undergraduates, including many minority students, based on their academic records and research potential. All students will be mentored to help them improve communication skills, discover resources for their education and careers, and recognize and value their own contributions to science. The REU program includes talks, discussions and workshops on methods and concepts key to their projects, and relevant field trips. These students will also join with an existing UCSC undergraduate research program targeting minority students in STEM disciplines for workshops on scientific ethics and communication. Students will be tracked to determine their continued interest in science, career paths, and lasting influences of their REU experience. The program will be assessed by various means, including an REU common assessment tool. More information is available by visiting http://reu.eeb.ucsc.edu/, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Barry Sinervo at lizardrps@gmail.com) or the co-PI (Dr. Laurel Fox at fox@ucsc.edu).