REU Site: IRIS Undergraduate Summer Research in Seismology

REU 网站：IRIS 地震学本科生暑期研究

• 批准号: 1852339
• 负责人: Michael Hubenthal
• 金额: $ 66.06万
• 依托单位: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852339&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; IRIS; Undergraduate; Summer

The primary goal of this project is to encourage more students, representing a more diverse population, to choose careers in Earth science. The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), a consortium of over 120 research universities and institutions dedicated to monitoring the Earth and exploring its interior through the collection and distribution of seismological data, will accomplish this by providing at least 10 undergraduate students per year with research experiences as part of a 9 to 11-week internship program. Participants will attend an intensive week-long preparatory course that will help build a support system amongst the cohort. Then the students will work with leaders in the seismological community, in both lab-base and field-based settings, to conduct research. The program is designed to provide participants with close mentoring from their research mentor and the program's alumni mentor to guide not only their scientific research, but also to enable their own personal growth, skill development, and scientific identity. Throughout the summer students complete weekly assignments designed and sequenced to enable the production of a suite of work products that will become the foundation for presenting their results, provide opportunities to reflect on their work and solidify learning gains, and allow them to benefit from experiences of prior participants. The culmination of each student's internship experience is the opportunity to attend a professional conference and present the results of their summer research. Such experiences bring closure to the research project, offers undergraduate student interns an opportunity to share their experience and expertise with their new peer community, and provides meaningful exposure to the full spectrum of Earth science research as a viable career option. The primary work of this project will be to provide undergraduate research opportunities (URO) within the field of seismological research. However, this proposal also seeks to improve the scientific communities understanding of and ability to improve both the short and long-term impacts of UROs on undergraduates as they consider and pursue careers within the geosciences. Through this project we will target three aspects of a URO that, when viewed through the lens of a cognitive apprenticeship, have the ability to influence student outcomes. First, we seek to develop and pilot a curriculum that contributes towards the development of a more inclusive geoscience culture that is resistant to all forms of harassment and discrimination. Next, we seek to develop resources for mentors in the seismology community to successfully assess undergraduates research skills and use these assessments to mentor undergraduates. Finally, we seek to develop resources and programing to enable undergraduates to develop and embrace their own science identity. Data to both measure the impact of the URO on students and efficacy of the resources developed will be collected from both mentors and mentees through surveys, semi-structured interviews, and professional and academic artifacts (e.g. abstracts, papers, technical reports, presentations). The program will also work collaboratively with other REU sites to collect similar data, especially when measuring the efficacy of URO resources.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.

该项目的主要目标是鼓励更多的学生，代表更多样化的人口，选择地球科学的职业。联合地震学研究机构（IRIS）是一个由120多所研究型大学和机构组成的联盟，致力于通过收集和分发地震数据来监测地球并探索其内部，将通过每年提供至少10名本科生的研究经验来实现这一目标，作为9至11周实习计划的一部分。参与者将参加为期一周的密集预备课程，这将有助于在同龄人中建立一个支持系统。然后，学生将与地震学界的领导人合作，在实验室和实地环境中进行研究。该计划旨在为参与者提供来自他们的研究导师和该计划的校友导师的密切指导，不仅指导他们的科学研究，而且使他们自己的个人成长，技能发展和科学身份。在整个夏天，学生完成每周的任务设计和排序，使一套工作产品的生产，将成为展示他们的成果的基础，提供机会来反思他们的工作和巩固学习成果，并让他们从以前的参与者的经验中受益。每个学生实习经历的高潮是有机会参加专业会议并展示他们的夏季研究成果。 这样的经验带来关闭的研究项目，提供本科生实习生有机会分享他们的经验和专业知识与他们的新的同行社区，并提供有意义的接触到地球科学研究的全方位作为一个可行的职业选择。该项目的主要工作将是提供地震学研究领域内的本科生研究机会（URO）。然而，这一建议也旨在提高科学界的理解和能力，以改善URO对本科生的短期和长期影响，因为他们考虑和追求地球科学的职业生涯。通过这个项目，我们将针对URO的三个方面，当通过认知学徒的透镜来看，有能力影响学生的成绩。首先，我们寻求制定和试行一个课程，以促进发展一个更具包容性的地球科学文化，抵制一切形式的骚扰和歧视。接下来，我们寻求开发资源，导师在地震学界成功地评估本科生的研究技能，并使用这些评估指导本科生。最后，我们寻求开发资源和编程，使本科生发展和拥抱自己的科学身份。测量URO对学生的影响和开发资源的有效性的数据将通过调查，半结构化访谈以及专业和学术工件（例如摘要，论文，技术报告，演示文稿）从导师和学员那里收集。该计划还将与其他REU网站合作，收集类似的数据，特别是在衡量URO资源的有效性时。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是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的支持。