Collaborative Research: REU Site: Svalbard REU: Holocene and Modern Climate Change in the Norwegian High Arctic

自2003年以来，私人投资机构一直在斯瓦尔巴特群岛为积极进取的地球科学本科生管理一个REU网站，直接让他们参与重要的气候变化研究，并使他们面临进行高纬度研究的挑战和回报。根据该方案的成功，提供资金以继续执行斯瓦尔巴群岛REU方案一年。学生研究的重点是在快速变化的冰川、湖泊和峡湾系统中运行的气候和地表过程，这些系统反过来可能记录下北极高地人类活动变化的特征。学生在整个项目中定义他们的研究问题并设计具体的可检验的假设，在下一学年在他们所在的机构完成他们的研究项目，并在一个专业会议上展示他们的结果。该项目的大多数校友都进入了研究生课程，为基础研究做好了更好的准备。

Since 2003, the PIs have been administering an REU site in the Svalbard archipelago for motivated geoscience undergraduate students, directly involving them in important climate change research and exposing them to the challenges and rewards of conducting high latitude research. Funds are provided to continue the Svalbard REU program for another year, based on the success of the program. Student research focuses on the climatic and surficial processes that operate in rapidly changing glacial, lacustrine, and fjord systems that may, in turn, archive the signature of anthropogenic changes in the high Arctic. Students define their research questions and design specific testable hypotheses throughout the program, complete their research projects at their home institutions during the following academic year and present their results at a professional conference. Most alumni of the program have gone into graduate programs better prepared for fundamental research.