REU Site: Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Rapid Environmental Change (EERREC)

该REU网站授予加州大学戴维斯分校，将在2021- 2023年夏季支持对八名学生进行为期九周的培训。研究在加州大学戴维斯分校的实验室或附近的现场进行。预计总共有24名学生将接受该项目的培训，这些学生主要来自研究机会有限的学校（包括合作院校霍华德大学、科罗拉多州立大学富勒顿分校、科罗拉多州立大学萨克拉门托分校和科罗拉多州立大学索诺玛分校）或代表性不足的群体。学生将学习如何进行旨在理解生物、群落和生态系统对快速环境变化的生态和进化反应的研究，并将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。项目评估将通过在线SALG URSSA工具进行。课程结束后，将对学生进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。加州大学戴维斯分校REU网站主要关注两个主要研究主题：(a)不断变化的环境制度的生态和进化影响；(b)人类主导的生态系统中的生物生物学。这些领域(1)包含了生物和生态系统因快速环境变化而面临的重要挑战，(2)反映了加州大学戴维斯分校和合作机构教师的共同利益，(3)包括城市、农村、农业和自然系统的具体研究问题，因此跨越了快速环境变化的影响范围，必须由多样化的社会来解决。来自生物科学学院或农业与环境科学学院的教师和研究生导师将指导REU学者的项目，包括海洋无脊椎动物范围限制的研究，植物物候学，蝴蝶毛虫的热应力，鲑鱼生理学，管理的陆地生态系统中的生态相互作用，人类对蜜蜂或鸟类的影响，以及河口恢复生态学。该计划包括指导负责任的研究行为、科学交流和脚本语言R，讨论环境生物学的职业，实地考察附近的研究保护区，以及项目后的指导。申请审查将于2月1日开始，由加州大学戴维斯分校的教师和合作伙伴对申请人进行审查。欲了解更多信息和申请，请访问https://eerrec.ucdavis.edu，或联系项目协调员Carole Hom博士（clhom@ucdavis.edu）或PI Rick Grosberg博士（rkgrosberg@ucdavis.edu）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

This REU Site award to the University of California, Davis, CA, will support the training of eight students for nine weeks during the summers of 2021- 2023. Research is conducted at laboratories at UC Davis or nearby field sites. It is anticipated that a total of 24 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities (including partner institutions Howard University, CSU Fullerton, CSU Sacramento, and CSU Sonoma) or from an under-represented group, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how to conduct research aimed at understanding ecological and evolutionary responses of organisms, communities and ecosystems to rapid environmental change and will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Program assessment will be done thru the online SALG URSSA tool. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths.The UC Davis REU Site focuses on two major research themes: (a) ecological and evolutionary effects of changing environmental regimes and (b) the biology of organisms in human-dominated ecosystems. These areas (1) encompass important challenges that organisms and ecosystems face as a result of rapid environmental change, (2) reflect shared interests of UC Davis and partner-institution faculty, and (3) include specific research questions in urban, rural, agricultural, and natural systems and thus span the spectrum of effects of rapid environmental change that must be addressed by a diverse society. Faculty and graduate student mentors from the College of Biological Sciences or College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences will guide REU scholars in projects that include studies of marine invertebrate range limits, plant phenology, thermal stress in butterfly caterpillars, salmonid physiology, ecological interactions in managed terrestrial ecosystems, human influences on bees or birds, and estuarine restoration ecology. The program includes instruction in responsible conduct of research, scientific communication, and the scripting language R, discussion about careers in environmental biology, field trips to nearby research reserves, and post-program mentoring. Review of applications will begin on 1 February, with applicants reviewed by faculty from UC Davis and partners. For more information and to apply, please see https://eerrec.ucdavis.edu, or contact Program Coordinator Dr. Carole Hom (clhom@ucdavis.edu) or the PI Dr. Rick Grosberg (rkgrosberg@ucdavis.edu).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.