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）将组织一个本科生国际研究经验（REU）项目。该项目将让三组学生在三个夏天的时间里在格陵兰岛进行国际实地考察，然后在康科德或密歇根州立大学进行实验室分析和最后的报告。REU网站将重点关注格陵兰岛沿海地区的自然和环境特征，其中包括世界遗产。该项目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、地质微生物学、矿物学和岩石学等领域进行实地和实验室工作的机会。该项目解决了极地科学中各种各样的问题，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着退缩的冰盖边缘的生态演替。这些项目通过综合方法统一起来，以了解沿北极圈冰到海洋样带的地球系统。REU学生将测试一个关于多断层地震破裂起源的新假设，并生成一个地质数据集，为多断层破裂过程的地球物理和地球动力学研究提供独特的补充，收集和分析高光谱数据，以获得更好的卫星反照率数据校准，并探索沿退缩冰缘演变的生态和地质微生物梯度。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，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.