REU Site: Understanding biological responses to global change in a field station community

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。该REU网站授予密歇根州立大学位于密歇根州山核桃角的凯洛格生物站（KBS），将支持10名学生在2022-2024年夏季进行10周的培训。预计共有30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。学生将学习如何进行研究，专业发展和领导技能，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。KBS的REU学生将进行研究，以了解生物和生态系统如何应对全球变化，在这个知识比以往任何时候都更重要的时候。在海鸥湖上一个美丽的野外站的研究人员和其他STEM专业人员的紧密联系的社区中，REU学生将受益于与学者和暑期项目参与者的定期互动，参加专业发展研讨会，以及领导力，包容性和研究伦理培训。他们还将练习向各种各样的观众传达他们的科学，并参加夏季末的研究研讨会。夏季课程的申请由学术课程协调员和主要导师在1月至3月之间滚动审查。导师来自综合生物学，植物生物学，渔业和野生动物，植物，土壤和微生物科学部门。研究项目包括研究不同的农业实践如何改变土壤中排放的温室气体，以及气候变暖下彩龟的长期种群动态。学生们了解科学是如何进行的，以及它如何告知我们在人类世面临的紧迫问题。欲了解更多信息，请访问：www.kbs.msu.edu/education/undergraduate-program/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-reu/或联系PI（Sarah Evans博士，evanssa6@msu.edu）或联合PI（Fred Janzen博士，janzenf1@msu.edu）。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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This REU Site award to Michigan State University’s Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), located in Hickory Corners, MI, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2022-2024. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or from an under-represented group, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how research is conducted, professional development and leadership skills, 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.REU students at KBS will conduct research to understand how organisms and ecosystems respond to global changes, in a time when this knowledge is more essential than ever. In a close knit community of researchers and other STEM professionals at a beautiful field station on Gull Lake, REU students will benefit from regular interactions with scholars and summer program participants, participation in professional development workshops, and leadership, inclusion, and research ethics trainings. They will also practice communicating their science to a wide variety of audiences and participate in an end-of-summer research symposium. Applications for summer sessions are reviewed by the Academic Programs Coordinator and primary mentors on a rolling basis between January and March. Mentors come from departments of Integrative Biology, Plant Biology, Fisheries and Wildlife, and Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences. Research projects range from examining how different agricultural practices change greenhouse gases emitted from soil, to long-term population dynamics of painted turtles under a warming climate. Students leave with an understanding of how science is conducted, and how it informs pressing issues like those we face in the Anthropocene. More information is available by visiting: www.kbs.msu.edu/education/undergraduate-program/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-reu/ or by contacting the PI (Dr. Sarah Evans, evanssa6@msu.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Fred Janzen at janzenf1@msu.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.