REU Site: Sustainable Land and Water Resources: A Community-Based Participatory Research Experience for Undergraduates

这个REU网站的重点是培训学生实施可持续的土地和水资源。其目标是向本科生介绍对改进管理实践至关重要的土地和水资源研究的关键要素，重点是基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)和不同的跨学科研究团队。每年，学生们分成三个小组，进行整合了地球表面动力学、地质学、水文学和其他学科的研究。研究小组由两个美洲原住民社区(南部萨利什库特奈部落和苏必利尔奇佩瓦湖的Fond Du Lac Band)和明尼苏达大学主办，与部落的资源管理部门合作开发项目。该REU网站采用跨学科团队导向的方法，强调定量和预测方法、CBPR、本土研究方法和传统生态知识。REU网站鼓励代表不足的学生和不确定自己如何适应科学世界以追求STEM职业的学生参与。REU网站引入了一种新的本科生研究范式，融合了基于地点和基于社区的参与性研究。私人投资机构正在培养关于非传统学生和STEM中代表性不足群体的学生更多地参与REU的知识。研究人员开发了一种经过验证的、结构化的、脚手架式的教学科学研究和写作方法，这种方法让可能从未写过技术研究论文的学生获得所需的技能和支持，以便定期提供高质量的智力产出，并在这个过程中增强他们的智力自信。REU网站的指导计划侧重于帮助导师：a)准备指导高度多样化的学生团队；b)支持导师应对当您指导拥有大量非传统学生的团队时出现的期望、问题和挑战；以及c)帮助导师适应在部落土地上和与土著人民进行研究的文化。学生、教师、研究生和博士后导师、部落专业人员和其他社区成员密切参与CBPR，开发内在地支持部落资源管理目标的项目。结果被分发给部落当局和社区成员以及更广泛的科学界。这一REU研究范式的成果将同时在保留区社区内建立更广泛的科学能力遗产，并在共享的信任和尊重的基础上提供科学发现的途径。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This REU Site is focused on training students in the implementation of Sustainable Land and Water Resources. Its goal is to introduce undergraduate students to key elements of research on land and water resources essential to improving management practices, with a focus on Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and diverse interdisciplinary research teams. Each year, students divided into three teams to conduct research that integrates Earth-surface dynamics, geology, hydrology and other disciplines. Research teams are hosted by two Native American communities (Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes and Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) and the University of Minnesota to work on projects developed in collaboration with the tribes' resource management divisions. This REU Site incorporates an interdisciplinary team-oriented approach that emphasizes quantitative and predictive methods, CBPR, indigenous research methods, and traditional ecological knowledge. The REU Site encourages participation by underrepresented students and students who are unsure about how they fit into the world of science to pursue STEM careers. The REU Site introduces a new paradigm for undergraduate research incorporating place-based and community-based participatory research. The PIs are building knowledge on increasing participation in REUs by non-traditional students and students from groups underrepresented in STEM. The researchers have developed a proven, structured, scaffolded method of teaching science research and writing, which takes students who may have never written a technical research paper and provides them with the skills and support needed to routinely deliver high quality intellectual outputs and increase their intellectual self-confidence in the process. The mentoring plan for the REU Site is focused on helping mentors to: a) prepare to mentor highly diverse teams of students; b) support mentors to deal with the expectations, issues and challenges that arise when you are mentoring teams that have a large number of nontraditional students; and c) help mentors get acculturated to conducting research on tribal lands and with Native people. The students, faculty, graduate and post-doctoral mentors, tribal professionals and other community members are intimately engaged in CBPR, developing projects that inherently support tribal resource management goals. Results are disseminated to tribal authorities and community members as well as the broader scientific community. Outcomes of this REU research paradigm will concurrently establish a legacy of broader scientific capacity within reservation communities and provide pathways to scientific discoveries with a shared foundation of trust and respect.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.