REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Earth and Environmental Sciences (SURFEES)

今年夏天，查普曼大学(加利福尼亚州奥兰治)地球与环境科学学院的REU-SITE项目将每年为10名完全从两年制社区大学中挑选出来的学生提供机会，让他们参与从区域到全球范围内与地球和环境问题有关的研究项目。通过该计划，他们将为未得到充分服务的学生群体提供实践、跨学科的研究经验，并加强在STEM领域招收和留住未被充分代表的学生。他们将与多所当地社区大学合作，这些大学服务于不同种族的社区，缺乏科学研究设施。教师导师包括生物学家、化学家和在查普曼拥有活跃的本科生研究实验室的地球科学家。通过与在各自学科前沿工作的教师导师一起参与尖端研究，学生将从事复杂的科学研究，主题包括污染物的来源、运输和转化途径，对潮间带生物的环境影响，以及湿地的碳固存。除了研究，学生还将参加小组活动，包括无工作经验培训工作坊、与当地讲师就环境职业/问题举行的研讨会、每周一次的研究小组会议/报告、大学生活和学术成功工作坊、研究海报演示会议和经验后评估。

This summer REU-Site program in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Chapman University (Orange, CA) will annually provide 10 students selected exclusively from 2-year community colleges with the opportunity to engage in research projects related to earth and environmental issues from the regional to global scale. Through the program, they will provide an under-served student population with hands-on, interdisciplinary research experiences and enhance the recruitment and retention of under-represented students into STEM fields. They will partner with multiple local community colleges that serve ethnically diverse communities and lack scientific research facilities. Faculty mentors include biologists, chemists, and geoscientists with active undergraduate research labs at Chapman. Through participation in cutting-edge research with faculty mentors working at the forefront of their respective disciplines, students will engage in complex scientific studies on topics including the sources, transport, and transformation pathways of pollutants, environmental impacts on intertidal organisms, and carbon sequestration in wetlands. In addition to research, students will participate in group activities including pre-experience training workshops, seminars with local speakers on environmental careers/issues, weekly group meetings/presentations within their research groups, university life and academic success workshops, a research poster presentation session, and a post-experience evaluation assessment.