REU Site: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research in the Marine Sciences for First-Year Students

北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校将举办一个本科生研究体验(REU)网站，为期三个夏天。在为期三年的时间里，该计划将在为期十周的实习期间，邀请总共30名一年级本科生参加海洋科学研究经验。该项目的研究导师将来自联合国教科文组织生物和海洋生物系、化学和生物化学系、地球和海洋科学系、环境科学系和物理和物理海洋学系。专业发展将由本科生研究和奖学金支持中心(CSURF)、沃森教育学院以及与DC Virgo K-8实验室学校的合作伙伴关系提供，并通过应用学习体验变革教育(ETEAL)。招生将招收打算主修生物化学、生物、化学、环境科学、地质学、海洋生物学、海洋学、物理学或与之密切相关领域的学生，包括来自社区学院和少数族裔服务学院和大学的退伍军人学生。REU的最初研究重点领域将集中在海洋科学的两个相互关联的领域：1)海水养殖和2)开普福里河河口的水质和污染物。这些主题领域与许多教师研究项目相关，并将鼓励学生开发至少跨越两个学科的项目。在海洋养殖研究重点范围内，学生项目可以与正在进行的各种研究相结合，例如贝类养殖；潜在新食物来源的营养评估；水质分析和缓解；替代做法的经济学；在田间条件下可能限制或促进某些品种的物理条件(流量、盐度；其他)；海水养殖做法的生态系统影响；用于海水养殖的物种生物学；以及农场设计的空间分析。作为关注开普福里河水质和污染物的一部分，学生们将有机会参加与大型河口的使用、管理和生态稳定性相关的持续教员研究，包括与化学、生物、地球科学、环境科学、经济和政策相关的项目。项目将集中在四个领域：污染物动态和相关的河口过程；对渔业、海产养殖、栖息地的影响；与管理/政策的联系和气候变化的潜在影响；以及可能与这些问题相关的海洋生物技术。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site for three summers. Over the three-year period, the program will engage a total of thirty first-year undergraduates in marine science research experiences during a ten week internship. Research mentors for this program will be drawn from UNCW’s Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences and Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography. Professional development will be offered by the Center for the Support of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CSURF), the Watson College of Education and a partnership with the DC Virgo K-8 Lab School, and Experiencing Transformative Education through Applied Learning (ETEAL). Student recruitment will engage students who intend to major in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, environmental science, geology, marine biology, oceanography, physics or closely related fields, including students who are veterans and who are from community colleges and minority-serving colleges and universities. Initial research focus areas for the REU will center around two interrelated areas of marine science: 1) Mariculture and 2) Water Quality and Contaminants in the Cape Fear River estuary. These topic areas are related to a number of faculty research programs and will allow encouragement of students to develop projects that cross at least two disciplines. Within the Mariculture research focus, student projects can integrate with a wide variety of ongoing studies, such as breeding of shellfish; nutritive assessment of potential new food sources; water quality analyses and mitigation; economics of alternative practices; physical conditions (flow, salinity; other) that may constrain or enhance certain varieties under field conditions; ecosystem impacts of mariculture practices; biology of species used in mariculture, and spatial analysis of farm design. As part of the focus on Water Quality and Contaminants in the Cape Fear River, students will have the opportunity to participate in ongoing faculty research related to the use, management and ecological stability of a large estuary, including projects related to chemistry, biology, earth sciences, environmental sciences, economics, and policy. Projects will be clustered among four areas: dynamics of contaminants and relevant estuarine processes; impacts on fisheries, mariculture, habitats; interface with management / policy and potential influence of climate change; and marine biotechnology as it may relate to these questions.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.