REU Site: Ocean Coastal Zone Sustainability through University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies

南加州大学（USC）的本科生研究经验（REU）计划将专注于沿海海洋的可持续性，并将在3年内每年夏天为8名学生提供为期10周的积极学习体验。参与者在南加州大学大学公园校园度过前两周的定向，培训和项目开发，然后转移到卡塔利纳岛的南加州大学箭牌海洋科学中心（WMSC），在接下来的八周内实施/完成项目。支持包括学生的住宿和膳食，学生津贴和旅行与参与该计划。参与者将进行独立的研究沿海海洋科学的主题是与可持续发展。在过去的学生研究课题包括：营养物地球化学，海洋生物学，海洋保护区的有效性，地理信息系统的应用，海洋微生物生态学，入侵物种的生物学，渔业种群生态学，微量元素化学，土地利用的影响，捕食者/猎物研究，种群遗传学，环境污染和生物毒性。设计的研究机会，学生单独工作，并与研究生和他们的导师团队，将帮助本科生获得信心，并看到自己作为未来的干专业人士。 南加州大学REU学生还将接受专业发展活动的重点培训，以促进STEM准备，即，科学传播，研究伦理，研究生院和专业应用程序，网络和非学术的海洋和沿海科学的职业道路的方法。

The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Southern California (USC) will focus on coastal oceans sustainability and will provide 8 students with a 10-week active learning experience each summer for 3 years. Participants spend their first two weeks on the USC University Park Campus in orientation, training and project development and then move to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center (WMSC) on Catalina Island for project implementation/completion over the following eight weeks. Support includes student housing and meals, student stipends and travel associated with participation in the program.Participants will conduct independent research on coastal ocean science topics that are related to sustainability. In the past student research topics included: nutrient biogeochemistry, marine organismal biology, the effectiveness of marine protected areas, applications of geographic information systems, marine microbial ecology, biology of invasive species, fisheries population ecology, trace element chemistry, land use impacts, predator/prey studies, population genetics, and environmental contamination and organism toxicity. The designed research opportunities, where students work individually and in teams with graduate students and their mentors, will help undergraduates gain confidence and see themselves as future STEM professionals. The USC REU students also will receive focused training in professional development activities that promote STEM readiness, i.e., science communication, research ethics, approaches for graduate school and professional application processes, networking, and non-academic career paths in marine and coastal science.