An International Research Experience for LSAMP Undergraduate Students

LSAMP 本科生的国际研究体验

• 批准号: 1712757
• 负责人: Elizabeth Braker
• 金额: $ 178.47万
• 依托单位: Organization for Tropical Studies Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1712757&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Research; Experience; LSAMP; Undergraduate

For the last decade, the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) has offered summer research experiences for LSAMP undergraduates at its Las Cruces Research Station and La Selva Research Station in Costa Rica. The programs combine research and career mentorship from researchers at the OTS field sites, along with home mentors from the students' LSAMP institutions, to ensure the integration of the experience into the student's academic career. OTS will enhance the programs by 1) recruiting students from tribal, HBCUs, and other small two-year LSAMP-affiliated institutions where application and participation rates have been lowest, 2) establishing a cultural component to the program through the addition of cultural mentors and other visiting scholars, 3) initiating science communication and outreach training for students in both programs, and 4) providing the opportunity for students to leverage their research accomplishments through travel awards to attend scientific conferences. Finally, OTS will disseminate the students' achievements through the sponsorship of a symposium and the publication of an anthology. These efforts will showcase the rich experiences and successes LSAMP students have shared as well as expand the impact of the program by communicating strategies, successes, and best practices. The goal of the OTS LSAMP program is to provide hands-on, mentored-research experiences to undergraduate students from groups most underrepresented in the sciences. Specifically, OTS will continue to invite Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Hispanic American, and African American students to participate in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at the La Selva Research Station in Costa Rica's Caribbean lowland rainforest or the Las Cruces Research Station in southern Costa Rica (students self-select their preferred site). The scientific objectives of the LSAMP REU programs at Las Cruces and La Selva are to: 1) stimulate LSAMP students to pursue careers in biology and the environmental sciences; 2) establish a clear understanding of the scientific method; 3) clarify the importance of biological ecosystems, ecology as a science, and the role of science in conservation; and 4) increase student awareness of the ethical context of research in a local, regional as well as international setting. The Las Cruces and La Selva programs are eight-weeks in length and have evolved to provide LSAMP students with an ideal nurturing environment and scientific community for field research in tropical ecology. Both programs foster daily interactions among students and their researcher mentors. Both empower the students with ownership of their research projects and the confidence to live and work as scientists. In addition, through interactions with Costa Rican researchers, indigenous leaders, and community members, LSAMP students are exposed to different cultural and societal customs and norms as well as international perspectives. Most importantly, these programs require careful assembly of the students' on-campus mentors/faculty advisors who participate in the program and work with the students long after the summer program is over. Frequently, home mentors encourage the students to continue to present their work and even improve upon it during the school year. The active interaction of both research and on-campus mentors on the students' educational and career pathways can be significant and often have been transformational. An alumni survey of the decade-long program conducted in 2015 revealed that, as a direct result of the students' summer experience, 72% of the students gave an oral or poster presentation at a scientific conference, 19% co-authored a paper submitted to a scientific journal, and 13% co-authored a paper that was published in a scientific journal. The survey further documented that 24% had completed a two-year Associate's degree, 67% had completed a four-year a Bachelor's degree, 16% had completed a Master's degree, and 2% had completed a PhD., while two-thirds of alumni were still pursuing degrees in the life sciences or geosciences at the bachelor's level (24%), master's level (24%) or doctoral level (20%). Through the continuation of the OTS program, most-at-risk LSAMP students are receiving the knowledge, skills, confidence, desire, and understanding to build their aspirations into baccalaureate degrees in a STEM field, obtain graduate-level STEM degrees, and/or establish their careers in the biological or environmental sciences.

在过去的十年中，热带研究组织（OTS）在哥斯达黎加的拉斯克鲁塞斯研究站和拉塞尔瓦研究站为LSAMP的本科生提供夏季研究经验。该计划结合联合收割机研究和职业导师从研究人员在OTS现场，沿着与家庭导师从学生的LSAMP机构，以确保经验融入学生的学术生涯。OTS将通过以下方式加强这些项目：1）从部落，HBCU和其他小型两年制LSAMP附属机构招募学生，这些机构的申请和参与率最低，2）通过增加文化导师和其他访问学者，为该项目建立文化组成部分，3）为两个项目的学生开展科学交流和推广培训，以及4）通过旅行奖励为学生提供机会，以利用他们的研究成果参加科学会议。最后，OTS将通过赞助一个研讨会和出版一本选集来传播学生的成就。这些努力将展示LSAMP学生分享的丰富经验和成功经验，并通过交流战略，成功经验和最佳实践来扩大该计划的影响。OTS LSAMP计划的目标是为来自科学领域代表性最低的群体的本科生提供实践，指导研究经验。具体而言，OTS将继续邀请美洲原住民，太平洋岛民，西班牙裔美国人和非洲裔美国学生参加本科生研究经验（REU）在拉塞尔瓦研究站在哥斯达黎加的加勒比低地雨林或拉斯克鲁塞斯研究站在南部哥斯达黎加（学生自选网站）。LSAMP REU计划在拉斯克鲁塞斯和拉塞尔瓦的科学目标是：1）刺激LSAMP学生追求生物学和环境科学的职业生涯; 2）建立科学方法的清晰理解; 3）澄清生物生态系统的重要性，生态学作为一门科学，以及科学在保护中的作用;以及4）提高学生对本地、区域和国际环境中研究的道德背景的认识。该拉斯克鲁塞斯和拉塞尔瓦计划是八个星期的长度，并已演变为提供LSAMP学生在热带生态学领域的研究一个理想的培育环境和科学界。这两个项目都促进了学生和他们的研究导师之间的日常互动。两者都赋予学生对他们的研究项目的所有权和作为科学家生活和工作的信心。此外，通过与哥斯达黎加研究人员，土著领导人和社区成员的互动，LSAMP学生接触到不同的文化和社会习俗和规范以及国际视角。最重要的是，这些项目需要学生的校园导师/教师顾问的仔细组装，他们参与该项目，并在暑期项目结束后很长一段时间与学生一起工作。通常，家庭导师鼓励学生继续展示他们的作品，甚至在学年中改进。研究和校园导师对学生的教育和职业道路的积极互动可能是重要的，往往是转型。2015年对长达十年的计划进行的校友调查显示，作为学生暑期经历的直接结果，72%的学生在科学会议上进行了口头或海报演示，19%的学生共同撰写了一篇提交给科学期刊的论文，13%的学生共同撰写了一篇发表在科学期刊上的论文。该调查进一步记录了24%的人完成了两年制副学士学位，67%完成了四年制学士学位，16%完成了硕士学位，2%完成了博士学位，而三分之二的校友仍在攻读生命科学或地球科学的学士学位（24%）、硕士学位（24%）或博士学位（20%）。通过OTS计划的延续，风险最大的LSAMP学生正在接受知识，技能，信心，愿望和理解，以将他们的愿望建立在STEM领域的学士学位，获得研究生水平的STEM学位，和/或建立他们在生物或环境科学方面的职业生涯。

项目成果

Fertilization success suggests random pairing in frogs with regard to body size

• DOI: 10.1007/s00265-021-03081-6
• 发表时间: 2021-09
• 期刊: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Johana Goyes Vallejos;John P. Gomez;Á. Hernández-Figueroa;Rebecca Vera;D. Green

Do experimental pH increases alter the structure and function of a lowland tropical stream?

• DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4097
• 发表时间: 2022-07-01
• 期刊: ECOSPHERE
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Marzolf，Nicholas S.;Baca，Dominic M.;Ardon，Marcelo
• 通讯作者: Ardon，Marcelo

Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider ( Trechalea extensa ) as a potential antipredator tactic

新热带蜘蛛（Trechalea extensa）的潜水行为是一种潜在的反捕食者策略

• DOI: 10.1111/eth.13281
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Ethology
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: Swierk, Lindsey;Petrula, Macy;Esquete, Patricia;Tregenza, ed., Tom
• 通讯作者: Tregenza, ed., Tom

More than Froot Loops: Keel-billed toucans (Ramphastos sulfuratus) consume vertebrate carrion

不仅仅是果环：龙骨嘴巨嘴鸟（Ramphastossulfatus）消耗脊椎动物腐肉

• DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2022.e00223
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Food Webs
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: Romero, Andrea;Soto Cedeño, Anthony;Montaño, Jessica;Oliveros Layola, Gonçal
• 通讯作者: Oliveros Layola, Gonçal

Wandering spider (Cupiennius sp.) predation on the emerald glass frog (Espadarana prosoblepon) in a montane rainforest of southwestern Costa Rica

哥斯达黎加西南部山地雨林中的流浪蜘蛛 (Cupiennius sp.) 捕食翡翠玻璃蛙 (Espadarana prosoblepon)

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Herpetology notes
• 作者: Cotoras, Darko D.;Goyes Vallejos, Johana
• 通讯作者: Goyes Vallejos, Johana