REU Site: Research Internships in Ocean Sciences (RIOS)

新泽西州新不伦瑞克的罗格斯大学将管理一个本科生研究经验（REU）网站项目。这个名为海洋科学研究实习（RIOS）的项目将在三年的时间里，每年夏天为罗格斯大学输送12名本科生。RIOS在三个地点运行，新不伦瑞克省的主校区，哈斯金贝类研究实验室和新泽西州塔克顿的罗格斯大学海洋野外站。共有36名本科生将有为期10周的暑期研究经历，其中包括专业发展活动和职业指导。实习支持为学生提供津贴、住房和往返项目的旅费。参加RIOS的实习生可以获得来自国际公认的教师，高水平的研究设施和多个沿海站点的导师。通过独立项目和团队研究经验，学生专注于适用于任何海洋生态系统的面向过程的概念和技术。小组活动和独立研究被嵌入到正在进行的项目中，重点是新泽西大陆架和邻近的河口，极地地区和先进的海洋观测。学生的研究机会包括遥感、海洋观测站、自动驾驶汽车、数值模拟和分子生物学等主题。学生撰写研究计划，参加研究巡游，进行实验室和实地研究，分析现有数据或他们生成的数据，并在整个十周的课程中以各种格式交流他们的工作。最后，为在国家科学会议上展示而设计的海报，通过对测试的假设、采用的方法和获得的新知识的总结来传达他们的工作。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ will manage a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site program. The program, called Research Internships in Ocean Science (RIOS), will bring twelve undergraduates to Rutgers each summer for three years. RIOS is run at three sites, the main campus in New Brunswick, the Haskin Shellfish Research Lab and the Rutgers University Marine Field Station in Tuckerton, NJ. A total of thirty-six undergraduates will have a ten-week summer research experience that includes professional development activities and career mentoring. The internship support provides for student stipends, housing and travel to and from the program.Interns who participate in RIOS have access to mentors drawn from an internationally recognized faculty, high caliber research facilities and multiple coastal sites. Through independent projects and team research experiences, students focus on process-oriented concepts and techniques applicable in any marine ecosystem. Group activities and independent research are embedded within ongoing programs, focused on the New Jersey continental shelf and adjacent estuaries, polar regions, and advanced ocean observing. Opportunities for student research include topics such as remote sensing, ocean observatories, autonomous vehicles, numerical modeling, and molecular biology. Students write research proposals, participate in research cruises, conduct laboratory and field research, analyze either existing data or data they generate, and communicate their work in various formats throughout the ten-week program. Finally, a poster designed for display at a national scientific meeting communicates their work with a summary of the hypotheses tested, approach taken, and new knowledge gained.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.