REU Site: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences - Undergraduate Research Experience in the Gulf of Maine and the World Ocean

毕格罗海洋科学实验室，在西布斯贝港-缅因州，计划实施一个REU网站，将支持10名学生每年，在未来5年。这个REU计划将结合联合收割机小组学习和指导个人研究，以帮助学生解决有关海洋的社会问题。该REU计划的目标是：i）为来自美国各地的本科生提供指导和获得高质量的海洋学动手研究机会以及了解其跨学科性质的机会，ii）提高学生独立学习的能力和信心，iii）帮助本科生为他们的职业生涯做好准备，㈣增加代表性不足的少数群体对海洋科学事业的参与。REU学生将被纳入由技术人员，博士后，初级和高级科学家组成的研究小组，接触科学生涯中涉及的活动和个性。 招生目标是吸引来自海洋科学中代表性不足的所有群体的学生，这样的群体是代表性不足的学生（包括第一代大学生）约40%。为了实现招聘目标，首席研究员将与合作伙伴组织，如扩大参与研究所和缅因州社区学院系统。计划内容和交付将根据学生和导师的反馈，以计划前，中期和最终评估的形式不断完善。作为一个群体，学生将参加当地河口的采样巡航，并参加每周会议，学习科学过程的基本原理，如如何形成可检验的假设，批判性地评估数据，并以科学的方式向同行和公众展示信息。学生们将参加科学伦理讨论，实验室安全课程与风险评估培训和概念图研讨会在他们的项目的早期阶段。学生通过参加毕格罗每周的科学咖啡馆讲座（面向公众），参加实验室的开放日和频繁的公众图尔斯之旅，参与并熟悉公共宣传。

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, in West Boothbay Harbor - Maine, plans to implement an REU site that will support 10 students each year, for the next 5 years. This REU program will combine group learning and guided individual research to help students address societal issues concerning the oceans. The goals of this REU Program are i) to provide undergraduate students from around the United States mentoring and access to high quality, hands on research opportunities in Oceanography and the opportunity to understand its interdisciplinary nature, ii) improve the capability and confidence of students to learn independently, iii) help to prepare undergraduates for their professional careers, and iv) increase the participation of underrepresented minorities in marine science careers. REU students will be incorporated into research groups consisting of technicians, post-docs, and junior and senior scientists, gaining exposure to the suite of activities and personalities involved in a science career. The recruitment goal is to engage students from all groups underrepresented in ocean sciences, such that cohorts are ~ 40% underrepresented students (including 1st generation college students). To achieve the recruitment goals, the principal investigator will work with partner organizations, like the Institute for Broadening Participation and Maine Community College System. Program content and delivery will continually be refined based on feedback from students and mentors in the form of pre-program, midpoint and final evaluations. As a group, students will participate in a sampling cruise on the local estuary, and attend weekly meetings to learn the fundamentals of the scientific process, such as how to form testable hypotheses, critically evaluate data, and present information in a scientific manner to their peers and to the public. Students will attend an ethics in science discussion, a laboratory safety course with risk assessment training and a concept mapping workshop during the early stages of their project. Students participate in and become familiar with public outreach through attendance at Bigelow's weekly Café Scientifique talks (for the general public), participation in the Lab's Open House and frequent public tours.