REU Site: Creating research pathways and enhancing diversity through the study of Earth's interior, surface, and climate

REU 网站：通过研究地球内部、表面和气候来创建研究途径并增强多样性

• 批准号: 1852273
• 负责人: Karen Fischer
• 金额: $ 25.79万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 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: 2019-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852273&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Creating; research; pathways

The Dynamic Earth in the 21st Century: Undergraduate research on the evolution of Earth's interior, surface and climate REU Site is a research internship summer program that will bring undergraduate students to Brown University to work with faculty in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences. The students will also engage in career development activities through the Leadership Alliance, which is a national consortium comprised of 36 PhD-granting Institutions, Minority-Serving Institutions and private industry dedicated to training and mentoring students from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds for competitive graduate programs and professional research-based careers. A primary goal of this REU Site is to recruit eight students, primarily from underrepresented minority groups, to engage in research in Earth and environmental science. The program will support a different group of students for nine weeks in each of three summers. Research projects will include work on the record and consequences of climate change, the physics of volcanic eruptions, the structure of the Earth's interior inferred from seismic waves, and other fundamental topics in the Earth and environmental sciences. This research experience will help the students to develop skills with critical thinking, research methodologies, scientific writing and oral presentations. Through their research and a range of other activities, students will also gain insight on possible pathways through graduate school and research careers. These activities include a weekly study group, the Leadership Alliance National Symposium, participation in a national science meeting, as well as other professional development and networking events. This project is jointly funded by the Earth Sciences REU program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This REU Site, Dynamic Earth in the 21st Century: Undergraduate research on the evolution of Earth's interior, surface and climate, is a collaborative venture between the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) at Brown University and the Leadership Alliance. Our goals are to: 1) enable a diverse group of undergraduates from outside of Brown to investigate fundamental processes regulating the evolution of the Earth's interior, surface and climate; 2) help students develop critical research, communication and professional skills, in order to increase their confidence and gain greater understanding of the research process and research careers; and 3) promote student awareness and understanding of graduate school to facilitate transition into competitive graduate programs in Earth science and the broader physical sciences. This REU Site builds on a successful three-year DEEPS-Alliance partnership that engaged 12 diverse undergraduates in innovative research and aided them on their pathways to research careers. The Site will continue to focus on recruiting students from underrepresented minority groups in the geosciences, women, first generation college students, students from lower income households, students who attend schools where STEM research opportunities are limited, and students with disabilities. Research projects will include those that address key questions about paleoclimate changes inferred from marine and lake sediments; ice sheet albedo and its implications for melting; human interactions with atmospheric chemistry; magma chamber properties and their potential for eruption; the determination of igneous rock thermal histories; and the properties of the lithosphere and asthenosphere measured by seismic waves. During three summers, eight student-interns will work for nine weeks with a member of the DEEPS faculty, and will be further supported by their surrounding research team, a weekly study group, and the highly effective professional development and networking programs of the Leadership Alliance, both at Brown and nationally. The students will learn to communicate their work in writing, and through presentations at the Leadership Alliance National Symposium, a research symposium at Brown, and either the Fall American Geophysical Union or the Geological Society of America meetings. This REU Site will synthesize the well-established network of Leadership Alliance minority-serving and undergraduate-focused institutions with DEEPS research opportunities to create a new pool of research-focused, highly qualified scholars for graduate programs in the geosciences. The program will also develop best practices and methodologies for activities at Alliance and DEEPS partner institutions.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.

动态地球在21世纪世纪：对地球的内部，表面和气候的演变本科研究REU网站是一个研究实习暑期计划，将使本科生布朗大学与地球，环境和行星科学系的教师一起工作。学生们还将通过领导力联盟，这是一个由36个博士授予机构，少数民族服务机构和私营企业组成的国家联盟，致力于培训和指导来自不同文化和学术背景的学生竞争力的研究生课程和专业研究为基础的职业生涯从事职业发展活动。这个REU网站的主要目标是招收8名学生，主要是来自代表性不足的少数群体，从事地球和环境科学的研究。 该项目将在三个夏天的每个夏天为不同的学生群体提供九周的支持。 研究项目将包括气候变化的记录和后果、火山爆发的物理学、从地震波推断的地球内部结构以及地球和环境科学的其他基本课题。这种研究经验将帮助学生培养批判性思维，研究方法，科学写作和口头陈述的技能。 通过他们的研究和一系列其他活动，学生还将获得通过研究生院和研究生涯的可能途径的洞察力。 这些活动包括每周一次的学习小组，领导联盟全国研讨会，参加全国科学会议，以及其他专业发展和网络活动。该项目由地球科学REU计划和激励竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。这个REU网站，21世纪的动态地球：关于地球内部，表面和气候演变的本科生研究，是布朗大学地球，环境和行星科学系（DEEPS）和领导联盟之间的合作项目。我们的目标是：1）使来自布朗大学以外的多元化本科生群体能够调查调节地球内部，表面和气候演变的基本过程; 2）帮助学生发展关键的研究，沟通和专业技能，以增加他们的信心，并更好地了解研究过程和研究生涯;以及3）促进学生对研究生院的认识和理解，以促进过渡到地球科学和更广泛的物理科学的竞争性研究生课程。这个REU网站建立在一个成功的为期三年的DEEPS联盟合作伙伴关系，从事创新研究的12个不同的本科生，并帮助他们的道路上的研究生涯。 该网站将继续专注于招收来自地球科学领域代表性不足的少数群体的学生，女性，第一代大学生，低收入家庭的学生，在STEM研究机会有限的学校就读的学生以及残疾学生。研究项目将包括解决以下关键问题的项目：从海洋和湖泊沉积物推断的古气候变化;冰盖融化及其对融化的影响;人类与大气化学的相互作用;岩浆房的性质及其喷发的可能性;火成岩热历史的确定;以及用地震波测量的岩石圈和软流圈的性质。在三个夏天，八名学生实习生将与DEEPS教师的一名成员一起工作九周，并将得到他们周围的研究团队，每周一次的学习小组以及领导力联盟的高效专业发展和网络计划的进一步支持，无论是在布朗还是在全国。 学生将学习以书面形式交流他们的工作，并通过在领导联盟全国研讨会，布朗研究研讨会，以及秋季美国地球物理联盟或美国地质学会会议上的演讲。这个REU网站将综合领导联盟少数民族服务和本科生为重点的机构与DEEPS研究机会完善的网络，以创建一个新的研究为重点，高素质的学者在地球科学研究生课程池。该计划还将为联盟和DEEPS合作机构的活动开发最佳实践和方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。