Training High School Students in Evolutionary Biology along-side REU Interns.

该提案将为两名当地高中生提供一个机会，在2012年夏天进行为期9周的前沿研究工作。两名学生都已被确认身份，并已在美国自然历史博物馆从事志愿研究工作。学生们将在全职的基础上进行新颖的研究问题，并与正在进行的暑期研究相结合。其中一个研究项目将涉及水蛭科的系统学。新的物种描述将完成利用遗产收集和最近的材料在自然历史收集。对于第二个项目，将利用核和线粒体基因序列，从极地和深海化学合成环境中评估Actiniaria目的进化关系和物种边界。这次活动将为高中生提供一次很好的研究经历。它还将导致研究结果的演示或出版。

This proposal would provide to two local high school students an opportunity to work in cutting edge research in the summer of 2012 for a period of 9 weeks. Both students have been identified and have already engaged in volunteer research at the American Museum of Natural History. The students will pursue novel research questions on a full time basis and in concert with ongoing summer research. One research project will involve systematics of the leech family Haemadipsidae. New species descriptions will be accomplished employing legacy collections and recent material in a natural history collection. For the second project, evolutionary relationships and species boundaries within the order Actiniaria will be evaluated, in particular from those of polar and deep-sea chemosynthetic environments using nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences.This activity will provide an excellent research experience for the high school students. It will also result in a presentation or publication of the research results.