Collaborative Research: REU Site: Arctic REU Greenland - Earth and Environmental Processes from the Inland Ice to the Ocean along the Aasivissuit-Nipisat World Heritage Corridor

位于西弗吉尼亚州的康科德学院和蒙大拿州立大学(MSU)将组织一项面向本科生的国际研究体验(REU)计划。该项目将在三个夏天让三批学生在格陵兰岛进行国际实地体验，随后将在协和大学或密歇根州立大学进行实验室分析和最终报告。REU遗址将专注于格陵兰沿海地区的自然和环境特征，其中包括世界遗产。该课程为学生提供了在构造地质学、地震地质学、气候变化、社会科学、古生态学、冰川学、地球微生物学、矿物学和岩石学方面的野外和实验室工作的机会。这个项目解决了极地科学中的一系列问题，从基岩地质学和地震破裂动力学到高光谱反照率校准和沿冰盖边缘的生态演替。这些项目以一种综合的方法统一起来，以了解北极圈冰川到海洋样带上的地球系统。REU的学生将测试关于多断层地震破裂起源的新假说，并产生一个地质数据集，该数据集将为多断层破裂过程的地球物理和地球动力学调查提供独特的补充，收集和分析高光谱数据以得出更好的卫星反照率数据校准，并探索沿消退的冰缘演变的生态和地球微生物梯度。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。

Concord College, located in WV, and Montana State University (MSU) will organize an international Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. The program will engage three cohorts of students over three summers in an international field experience in Greenland that will be followed by laboratory analysis and final presentations at Concord or MSU. The REU Site will focus on the natural and environmental characteristics of a coastal region in Greenland that includes a World Heritage Site. The program offers opportunities for students to conduct both field and laboratory work in structural geology, earthquake geology, climate change, social sciences, paleoecology, glaciology, geo-microbiology, mineralogy, and petrology.This project addresses a diverse array of questions in polar science ranging from bedrock geology and earthquake rupture dynamics to hyperspectral albedo calibration and ecological succession along a retreating icecap margin. The projects are unified by an integrative approach to understanding Earth systems along an ice to ocean transect at the Arctic Circle. REU students will test a new hypothesis for the origin of multi-fault earthquake rupture and generate a geologic data set that will provide a unique compliment to geophysical and geodynamic investigations for multi-fault rupture processes, collect and analyze hyperspectral data to derive a better calibration of satellite albedo data, and explore ecologicaland geomicrobiological gradients evolving along the retreating ice margin.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.