Travel Proposal: Providing IRIS undergraduate interns with a 2018 AGU Fall Meeting experience

这项旅行计划要求为16名完成暑期研究的学生提供支持，以参加在华盛顿特区举行的2018年秋季AGU的这一巅峰体验。申请的资金将用于学生往返会议的旅费、住宿、食物、会议登记和抽象费用。这些学生是通过严格的申请程序从符合实习最低标准的70多名申请者中挑选出来参加IRIS REU计划的。实习模式的基本要素包括：a)指导实习生学习地震学基础知识并通过分享经验建立队列；b)建立网络基础设施，在促进同行学习和协作的同时促进群体凝聚力；c)通过精心组织的研究经验过渡到独立研究；d)专家教师指导；e)介绍研究结果，重新建立面对面的联系，并融入校友网络(这项旅行建议)；f)一名校友导师，在整个过程中提供有经验的、始终如一的支持；g)共同的科学重点，强调地震数据的获取和分析，以帮助解决更广泛的地球科学问题。现已进入第20个年头的IRIS本科生实习计划对学生的职业发展和增加地球科学领域的多样性产生了重大影响。该项目开创了一种分布式REU(本科生研究体验)模式，将学生联系到一个队列中，并使用通过互联网和校友导师的虚拟互动来保持凝聚力，尽管学生在地理上分散的地点进行研究。这次经历的顶峰是让学生们在秋季的美国地球物理联合会(AGU)会议上再次聚集在一起，会见实习校友和其他地震学家，并展示他们的研究成果。这一旅行建议不仅将通过支持实习生传播他们的研究来发展地震学知识，而且这一独特的REU模式有机会促进越来越多的关于应用虚拟互动进行远程学习、社区建设和实施与元认知相关的技能(意识和理解自己的思维过程)的知识。这一模式的成功、记录和传播也将使其他组织能够将地理上分散的资源应用于其人力资本的开发。此外，这项提议提供了一个机会，扩大代表不足的群体对地震学研究的参与。IRIS继续与少数族裔服务机构和专业组织密切合作，提高人们对地震学研究作为潜在职业道路的认识。这一奖项反映了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 travel proposal requests support for 16 students who will have completed their summer research to take part in this capstone experience at the 2018 Fall AGU in Washington, DC. The requested funds will support roundtrip travel to the meeting, lodging, food, and meeting registration and abstract fees for the students. These students were selected to take part in the IRIS REU program through a rigorous application process, from a pool of over 70 applicants who met the minimum criteria for the internship. The fundamental elements of the internship model include: a) an orientation where interns learn seismological basics and build the cohort through shared experiences, b) cyberinfrastructure to nourish group cohesion while enabling peer-learning and collaboration, c) a transition to independent research through a carefully structured research experience, d) expert faculty mentoring, e) presentation of research results, reconnecting face-to-face, and integration into the alumni network (this travel proposal), f) an Alumni Mentor to provide experienced, consistent support throughout the entire process, and g) a common scientific focus emphasizing the acquisition and analysis of seismic data to help address broader Earth science questions. Now in its twentieth year, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Undergraduate Internship Program has had a significant impact on students' career development and increasing diversity in the geosciences. This program has pioneered a distributed REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) model that bonds students into a cohort, and uses virtual interactions via the Internet and an alumni mentor to maintain cohesion despite students conducting research at geographically distributed sites. The capstone of the experience is to bring the students together again at the Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting to meet intern alumni and other seismologists, and to present their research. Not only will this travel proposal develop seismological knowledge by supporting interns to disseminate their research, this unique REU model has the opportunity to contribute to the growing body of knowledge regarding the application of virtual interactions for distance learning, community building, and the implementation of the skills associated with metacognition (awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes). The success, documentation and dissemination of this model, will also enable other organizations to apply geographically distributed resources to the development of their human capital. Additionally, this proposal presents an opportunity to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in the study of seismology. IRIS continues to work closely with minority serving institutions and professional organizations to raise awareness of the study of seismology as a potential career path.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.