REU Site: Climate Change Across The Various Scales of System Organization

美国国家科学基金会数学和物理科学理事会化学系（CHE）和多学科活动办公室支持由圣地亚哥大学Debbie Tahmassebi和Sonia Zarate领导的本科生研究经验（REU）网站。每年夏天，REU项目支持10名学生进行为期10周的暑期研究。该计划的重点是招募社区大学学生（目前入学和最近转入美元），特别考虑武装部队退伍军人，在STEM中代表性不足，并且从事研究的机会有限的学生。学员将接受现代研究方面的指导，并接受培训，以综合的方式理解复杂的气候变化问题，并提出解决这些问题的策略。具体而言，参与者将了解新知识是如何产生的，学习如何综合科学信息，并学习考虑不同学科的实验设计。通过这种综合方法，学生将发展成为具有创新能力的科学家，能够解释数据，形成结论，并更好地理解气候变化对环境和其他生物的影响。美国国家科学基金会REU旨在更好地帮助来自代表性不足的人群和退伍军人的学生为进入STEM学者和21世纪的STEM劳动力做好准备。美国国家科学基金会REU网站让学生与生物学、化学与生物化学、工程学、环境与海洋科学、数学与计算机科学和物理学的教师一起进行跨学科的合作研究。研究项目涉及学生在系统组织的不同尺度上研究气候变化。学生将有一系列的研究机会，研究气溶胶颗粒的形成，珊瑚礁沉积，生物代谢，捕食者和猎物的相互作用，以及沿海湿地群落结构。更多的应用项目包括努力开发将温室气体转化为燃料来源的催化剂，收集和储存太阳能的方法，以及开发替代性生物可降解复合材料以减少温室气体排放。

The Division Of Chemistry (CHE) and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Mathematics and Physical Sciences Directorate at NSF supports a Research Experience For Undergraduates (REU) site led by Debbie Tahmassebi and Sonia Zarate at the University of San Diego. Each summer, the REU Program supports ten students for 10 weeks of summer research. The program focuses on recruiting community college students (currently enrolled and recent transfers to USD) with special consideration for students that are veterans of the armed forces, are underrepresented in STEM, and have had limited opportunities to engage in research. Participants are mentored in modern research, and are trained to take an integrative approach to understand, and propose strategies to address complex climate change issues. Specifically, participants gain an understanding of how new knowledge is generated, learn how to synthesize scientific information, and learn to design experiments taking various disciplines into consideration. Through this integrative approach students develop into innovative scientists that are able to interpret data, form conclusions, and better understand the impact of climate change on the environment and other organisms. The USD NSF REU seeks to better prepare students from underrepresented populations and veterans for matriculation into STEM Academics and the 21st century STEM workforce.The NSF REU Site at USD engages students in collaborative, interdisciplinary research alongside faculty in Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Engineering, Environmental & Ocean Sciences, Mathematics & Computer Science and Physics. The research projects involve students in studies centered on climate change across the various scales of system organization. Students will have a range of research opportunities from studying formation of aerosol particles, coral reef sedimentation, organism metabolism, predator and prey interactions, and coastal wetland community structure. More applied projects include efforts to develop a catalyst to convert a greenhouse gas into a fuel source, approaches to the collection and storage of solar energy and the development of alternative biodegradable composites to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.