REU Site: Aquatic Chemical Ecology at Georgia Tech

REU 站点：佐治亚理工学院水生化学生态学

• 批准号: 1559923
• 负责人: Brian Hammer
• 金额: $ 27.2万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1559923&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Aquatic; Chemical; Ecology

The Division of Ocean Sciences provides renewed funding for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Aquatic Chemical Ecology at Georgia Institute of Technology, located in Atlanta, GA. The program will host 10 undergraduates during a 10-week internship each summer for three years. Program activities consist of faculty mentorship, research training, educational components (seminars, workshops), career advising, and networking activities designed to immerse REU students in a rich and diverse research culture. The central focus will be a research project that is designed, implemented, documented, and presented by the student. The PIs intend to attract a high proportion of students from non-PhD granting institutions, focusing especially on recruitment of students from under represented groups and women.Chemical cues mediate a variety of critical ecological processes, including inter- and intraspecific competition, predator-prey, host-parasite, and mutualistic interactions. These cues are used by organisms to locate food, evade predators, select mates, launch cooperative behaviors, construct social hierarchies, and choose suitable environments. Altogether, chemically-mediated interactions have ecological and evolutionary consequences at the individual, population, community, and ecosystem levels. Georgia Tech will offer an integrated research experience in aquatic chemical ecology. Faculty mentors will be selected from the Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Biology. A total of 30 students will conduct independent research projects related to aquatic chemical ecology and will receive training in scientific communication and STEM career options.

海洋科学部为位于佐治亚州亚特兰大的格鲁吉亚理工学院的水生化学生态学本科生研究经验（REU）计划提供了新的资金。该计划将在为期三年的每年夏天举办为期10周的实习10名本科生。计划活动包括教师指导，研究培训，教育组件（研讨会，讲习班），职业咨询和旨在使REU学生沉浸在丰富多样的研究文化中的网络活动。中心重点将是一个研究项目，由学生设计，实施，记录和介绍。该PI打算吸引高比例的学生从非博士授予机构，特别注重招聘学生从代表性不足的群体和women.Chemical线索调解各种关键的生态过程，包括种间和种内竞争，捕食者-猎物，主机-寄生虫，互利互惠的相互作用。这些线索被生物体用来定位食物、躲避捕食者、选择配偶、发起合作行为、构建社会等级和选择合适的环境。总而言之，化学介导的相互作用在个人，种群，社区和生态系统水平上具有生态和进化后果。格鲁吉亚理工学院将提供水生化学生态学的综合研究经验。教师导师将从土木环境工程，化学生物分子工程，地球大气科学，化学生物化学和生物学的部门选择。共有30名学生将进行与水生化学生态学相关的独立研究项目，并将接受科学交流和STEM职业选择方面的培训。