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

REU 站点：21 世纪的系统学、进化和保护

• 批准号: 1950610
• 负责人: Cheryl Hayashi
• 金额: $ 58.38万
• 依托单位: American Museum Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-15 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950610&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; SITE; Systematics; Evolution; Conservation

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 [e-mail]).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.

这项授予位于纽约纽约的美国自然历史博物馆（AMNH）的REU网站奖将在2020年至2022年的夏季支持12名本科生的培训10周。预计将在该计划中培训总共36名学生，来自研究机会有限或代表性不足的群体的学校的小学生将接受培训。学生将写一份报告，并就其研究成就进行公开介绍，许多人将在科学会议上介绍他们的工作结果。该程序的评估将通过在线Salg Urssa工具进行。计划后将跟踪学生，以确定自己的职业道路。 REU计划的主题是系统学和进化以及这些方式如何为保护优先级提供信息。博物馆策展人和科学家将考虑学生对特定生物群体进行研究的考虑。在选择参与者时，重点放在有效的学生项目和学生对象匹配上；成绩单和测试分数在应用程序中不接受。项目将探索从古生物学到保护遗传学的生物多样性学科，以完成博物馆的完整研究范围。学生将参与数据收集方法，包括形态学，高级DNA测序，计算机断层扫描和大规模平行的下一代基因组学。参与者将接受计算分析的培训，包括形态计量学，生态建模和系统发育。通过对150年来收集的超过3400万个标本，每周的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，学生对博物馆作为多样性管理者的作用和责任的了解将得到增强。学生将参与博物馆其他夏季计划的高中生的近学校学生。有关该程序的更多信息，请访问www.amnh.org/reu/，或通过与PI联系（通过[e-mail]）与PI联系（Mark Siddall博士）。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优先级和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，以评估Criteria。

项目成果

Utilization of Community Science Data to Explore Habitat Suitability of Basal Termite Genera

• DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixac019
• 发表时间: 2022-07
• 期刊: Insect Systematics and Diversity
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Aaron M. Goodman;Jonah J Allen;Jinna Brim;Alessa Codella;Brittney Hahn;Hassan Jojo;Zoila BondocGawa Mafla-Mills;Salka’Tuwa Bondoc Mafla;Agnes Oduro;Megan M. Wilson;J. Ware