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

REU 网站：地球与环境科学夏季本科生研究奖学金 (SURFEES)

• 批准号: 1359500
• 负责人: Christopher Kim
• 金额: $ 31.42万
• 依托单位: Chapman University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1359500&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Summer; Undergraduate; Research

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.

今年夏天，查普曼大学（橙子，加利福尼亚州）地球与环境科学学院的REU网站计划将每年为10名学生提供从两年制社区学院专门挑选的机会，参与从区域到全球范围内与地球和环境问题相关的研究项目。通过该计划，他们将为服务不足的学生群体提供实践，跨学科的研究经验，并加强代表性不足的学生进入STEM领域的招聘和保留。他们将与多个当地社区学院合作，这些学院为种族多样化的社区提供服务，缺乏科学研究设施。教师导师包括生物学家，化学家和地球科学家，在查普曼活跃的本科研究实验室。通过与在各自学科前沿工作的教师导师参与前沿研究，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，以及湿地中的碳封存。除了研究，学生将参加小组活动，包括经验前的培训研讨会，与当地发言人就环境职业/问题，每周小组会议/演示在他们的研究小组，大学生活和学术成功研讨会，研究海报展示会，和经验后的评估评估。