REU Site: The Summer Systematics Institute: training the next generation of scientists for the field, the lab, and sharing their science with the world

REU 网站：夏季系统学研究所：为该领域、实验室培训下一代科学家，并与世界分享他们的科学成果

• 批准号: 1852276
• 负责人: Lauren Esposito
• 金额: $ 44.24万
• 依托单位: California Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-15 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852276&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Summer; Systematics; Institute

This REU Site award to the California Academy of Sciences, located in San Francisco, CA, will support the training of 10 students for 9 weeks during the summers of 2019? 2021. Research will primarily be conducted at the Academy and at local field sites in Sonoma County, CA. The Academy's Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability is a research hub focused on understanding the natural world and finding solutions to sustaining it. The institution houses world-class natural history research collections, along with modern day technology and genomics tools needed to study these specimens. Participants of the Summer Systematics Institute will begin the summer with fieldwork and immersive workshops, before returning to the Academy to be paired with mentors, who are curators in the Institute, to work on original research projects and attend seminars which provide tools in the field of systematics and phylogenetics. The summer culminates with writing a scientific abstract and a popular science article, and giving an oral presentation to the community in in end-of-program symposium. Students apply through an online application system and will be recruited from universities and community colleges across the country. Applicants identify potential mentors during the application process, and applications are competitively reviewed by advisors who make the final selection of participants. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how biodiversity-focused research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at local symposia and scientific conferences. A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU Site programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information about the program is available by visiting https://www.calacademy.org/summer-systematics-institute, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Lauren Esposito at [e-mail]) or the co-PI (Dr. Rebecca Johnson at [e-mail]).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.

这个REU网站奖给加州科学院，位于加州旧金山弗朗西斯科，将支持10名学生在2019年夏天9周的培训？2021.研究将主要在学院和加利福尼亚州索诺马县的当地实地进行。该学院的生物多样性科学和可持续发展研究所是一个研究中心，专注于了解自然世界，并寻找解决方案，以维持它。该机构拥有世界一流的自然历史研究收藏，沿着现代技术和基因组学工具，需要研究这些标本。夏季系统学研究所的参与者将开始夏季实地考察和沉浸式研讨会，然后返回学院与导师配对，他们是研究所的策展人，从事原创研究项目并参加研讨会，提供系统学和遗传学领域的工具。夏季的高潮是写一篇科学摘要和一篇科普文章，并在项目结束时向社区做口头报告。学生通过在线申请系统申请，并将从全国各地的大学和社区学院招募。申请人在申请过程中确定潜在的导师，并由顾问进行竞争性审查，最终选择参与者。预计共有30名学生，主要来自研究机会有限的学校，将在该方案中接受培训。学生将学习如何进行以生物多样性为重点的研究，许多人将在当地的研讨会和科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。由生物基础设施部资助的所有REU研究中心项目使用的通用网络评估工具将用于确定培训项目的有效性。学生将在课程结束后进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。学生将被要求通过NSF报告系统自动发送电子邮件。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问https：//www.calacademy.org/summer-systematics-institute，或联系PI（Lauren Esposito博士，[e-mail]）或联合PI（Rebecca约翰逊博士，[e-mail]）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。