REU SITE: Systematics, Evolution and Conservation for the 21st Century

这个REU网站奖给美国自然历史博物馆（AMNH），位于纽约州纽约，将支持12名本科生在2020年至2022年的夏天10周的培训。预计共有36名学生，主要来自研究机会有限的学校或代表性不足的群体，将在该方案中接受培训。学生将撰写一份报告，并就他们的研究成果进行公开演讲，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。该计划的评估将通过在线SALG URSSA工具完成。学生将在课程结束后进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。REU课程的主题是系统学和进化，以及这些如何告知保护优先事项。学生将由博物馆馆长和科学家指导进行特定生物群的研究。在选择参与者时，重点放在有效的学生项目和学生导师匹配上;成绩单和考试成绩不被接受。项目将探索从古生物学到保护遗传学的生物多样性学科，包括博物馆的全部研究范围。学生将参与数据收集方法，包括形态学，先进的DNA测序，计算机断层扫描和大规模并行下一代基因组学。参与者将接受计算分析方面的培训，包括形态测量学，生态建模和遗传学。学生们对博物馆作为时空多样性管理者的作用和责任的了解将通过深入了解150多年来收集的3400多万件标本，每周讲座和培训课程以及关于道德和负责任的科学行为的研讨会来加强。学生们将参加博物馆其他暑期项目的高中生的近同伴指导。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问www.amnh.org/REU/，或联系PI（Mark Siddall博士，siddall@amnh.org）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

This REU Site award to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located in New York, NY, will support the training of 12 undergraduate students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2020-2022. It is anticipated that a total of 36 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or from under-represented groups, will be trained in the program. Students will write a report and give a public presentation on their research accomplishments and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Assessment of the program will be done thru the online SALG URSSA tool. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths.The theme of the REU program is systematics and evolution and how those inform conservation priorities. Students will be mentored by the museum curators and scientists conducting research on specific groups of organisms. In selecting participants, emphasis is placed on effective student-project and student-mentor matching; transcripts and test scores are not accepted in the application. Projects will explore biodiversity disciplines from paleontology to conservation genetics that comprise the full research scope of the museum. Students will engage in data gathering methodologies, including morphology, advanced DNA sequencing, computed tomography, and massively parallel next-generation genomics. Participants will be trained in computational analytics including morphometrics, ecological modelling and phylogenetics. Students’ knowledge of the role and responsibility of museums as stewards of diversity through time and space will be enhanced through on-boarding in-depth familiarity with the over 34 million specimens collected over 150 years, weekly lectures and training sessions as well as workshops on ethics and responsible scientific conduct. Students will engage in near-peer mentoring of high-school students who are participants in the museum’s other summer programs. More information about the program can be found by visiting www.amnh.org/REU/, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Mark Siddall at siddall@amnh.org).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.