REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Earth and Environmental Sciences (SURFEES)

查普曼大学施密德科技学院的REU-Site暑期项目每年将为10-11名专门从两年制社区学院挑选的学生提供（特别关注代表性不足的少数群体、妇女、和低收入家庭的学生），有机会从事跨学科的地球和环境课题的研究，从矿物，从地表相互作用到湿地生态系统再到全球极端天气事件。让服务不足的学生参与这个REU网站计划，预计将创造一个更多样化的科学素养的公民人口，以应对当前和未来的科学挑战。可衡量的成果包括社区大学学生的数量仍然致力于干专业转移到和毕业的科学专业从4年制院校，REU学生的研究过程，研究道德，研究贡献的价值增加的理解本地和全球社区，和REU网站参与者的数量谁进入研究生课程或职业生涯的科学。查普曼大学校园资源和当地社区组织将提供专业发展研讨会，在每周一次的演讲者研讨会上就科学职业和实习进行演讲，并为参与者提供成为有效和道德科学研究人员所需的技能。南加州是一个高度发达的城市化地区，拥有大量的自然资源，导致了广泛的地球和环境挑战和问题。解决这些复杂的问题需要一支跨学科和受过教育的科学家队伍。通过与在各自学科前沿工作的教师导师参与前沿研究，学生将从事复杂的科学研究，主题包括污染物的转化途径，对潮间带生态系统的环境影响，气候变化对极端天气相关事件的影响，以及湿地中的碳封存。 这些互动将提供宝贵的跨学科的研究经验，以一个典型的服务不足的学生群体，并推动主要研究者的学术研究forward.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准的支持。

This summer REU-Site program in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University will annually provide 10-11 students selected exclusively from 2-year community colleges (focusing specifically on under-represented minorities, women, and low-income students) with the opportunity to engage in research on interdisciplinary earth and environmental topics ranging from mineral-surface interactions to wetland ecosystems to extreme global weather events. Engaging under-served students in this REU-Site program is expected to create a more diverse population of science-literate citizens to address current and future scientific challenges. Measurable outcomes include the number of community college students remaining committed to STEM majors by transferring to and graduating as science majors from 4-year institutions, REU students' increased understanding of the research process, research ethics, and the value of research contributions to local and global communities, and the number of REU-Site participants who enter graduate programs or careers in the sciences. Chapman University campus resources and local community organizations will provide professional development workshops, give presentations at a weekly speaker symposium on scientific careers and internships, and prepare participants with the skills needed to be effective and ethical science researchers.Southern California is a highly developed urbanized area with considerable natural resources, resulting in a wide range of earth and environmental challenges and problems. Addressing these complex issues requires an interdisciplinary and educated workforce of scientists. Through participation in cutting-edge research with faculty mentors working at the forefront of their respective disciplines, students will engage in complex scientific studies on topics including the transformation pathways of pollutants, environmental impacts on intertidal ecosystems, effects of climate change on extreme weather-related events, and carbon sequestration in wetlands. These interactions will both provide valuable interdisciplinary research experiences to a typically underserved student population and drive the principal investigators' scholarly research forward.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.