Collaborative: RUI: IRES: Birds, Beans, and Bugs; Modeling a Warming Climate's Effect on the Natural Enemies Hypothesis

在这个项目中，来自洪堡州立大学和密苏里州西部州立大学的研究生和本科生小组将与肯尼亚的教师一起从事应用生态学研究。这项研究将扩展之前IRES奖项的工作，并启动与外国合作伙伴的新合作。该项目有一个统一的主题，即调查气温上升对咖啡种植景观中害虫及其天敌的影响。具体的研究问题将涉及现场采样、计算机建模和实验室中的分子分析，从而培训学生几种科学方法。学生将在秋季和春季学期参加课程，为他们在肯尼亚进行的为期5周的田野调查做准备，并帮助他们进行分析。学生和教授将与来自肯尼亚国家博物馆和国际昆虫生理学和生态学中心的鸟类学家和昆虫学家合作。这项工作将与课堂教学相结合，将该项目的好处扩大到我们以本科生为主的机构的其他学生。学生将完全沉浸在国际研究过程中，他们将与外国和美国的导师合作，他们将受益于该项目基于实地和基于课堂的学习的独特整合。

In this project small groups of graduate and undergraduate students from Humboldt State University and Missouri Western State University will engage with faculty in applied ecological research in Kenya. The research will extend work from a previous IRES award and launch new collaborations with foreign partners. The program has a unifying theme of investigating the effect of rising temperature on insect pests and their natural enemies in coffee farming landscapes. Specific research questions will involve field sampling, computer modeling, and molecular analyses in the lab, thereby training students in several scientific methodologies. Students will take courses in the fall and spring semesters that will prepare them for, and aid their analysis of, field research conducted over 5-week field seasons in Kenya. Students and professors will work in coordination with ornithologists and entomologists from Kenya's National Museums of Kenya and the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology. The work will be integrated with classroom instruction, extending the benefits of the project to other students at our predominately undergraduate institutions. Students will be fully immersed in the international research process, they will collaborate with foreign and U.S. mentors, and they will benefit from the program's unique integration of field- and classroom-based learning.