REU Site: Coastal Ocean Research through the University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies

南加州大学S环境科学研究所和南加州大学生物系将举办一个本科生研究体验项目。该计划将在为期三年的时间里，每年夏天将本科生带到南加州大学进行为期十周的实习。参与计划的实习生将被安置在卡特琳娜岛的南加州大学箭牌海洋科学中心(WMSC)或洛杉矶的南加州大学园区。潜在的研究主题侧重于沿海海洋学这一主题，并包括广泛的研究。实习生还将参加各种专业发展活动和讲习班以及实地活动。实习生可能有机会参加科学会议。参与南加州大学的教职员工来自南加州大学七个不同的系/部门(地球科学、海洋环境生物学、空间科学、环境研究、考古学、土木工程和分子计算生物学)，他们都有活跃的、国家资助的研究项目和良好的出版记录。该项目还从少数族裔服务机构以及当地四年制公立和文科学院招聘顶尖研究人员导师或联合导师，他们通常在暑期在WMSC工作。因此，REU实习生可以从许多领域的潜在研究项目中进行选择，如海洋生物地球化学循环、种群遗传学、基因组学、海洋氮循环、微生物生态学、原生生物多样性、分子生态考古学、水文学、浮游植物生物学和生理学、海洋细菌、病毒、古细菌、底栖和海洋无脊椎动物生态学、生理学、进化适应、微生物真核生物、珊瑚生态生理学、痕量金属、微生物学、鱿鱼-弧菌共生、人类与环境的相互作用、可持续性、海藻森林生态学、神经内分泌学、这一奖项反映了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。

The University of Southern California (USC)'s Wrigley Institute of Environmental Science and the USC Department of Biology will host a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. The program will bring undergraduates to USC each summer for three years for a ten-week internship. Participating interns will be housed at either the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center (WMSC) on Catalina Island or the USC University Park Campus, Los Angeles. Potential research topics are focused on the theme of coastal oceanography and include a wide range of studies. Interns will also participate in a variety of professional development activities and workshops as well as field-based activities. Interns may have the opportunity to participate in scientific conferences.Participating USC faculty have come from seven different departments/sections at USC (Earth Sciences, Marine Environmental Biology, Spatial Sciences, Environmental Studies, Archaeology, Civil Engineering, and Molecular Computational Biology), and all have active, nationally-funded research programs and strong publication records. The program also recruits top research faculty mentors or co-mentors from minority-serving institutions and local 4-year public and liberal arts colleges who routinely work at the WMSC in the summers. Therefore, REU Interns can choose from potential research projects in a wide variety of fields, such as marine biogeochemical cycles, population genetics, genomics, marine Nitrogen cycles, microbial ecology, protistan diversity, molecular ecology archaeology, hydrology, phytoplankton biology and physiology, marine bacteria, viruses, archaea, benthic and marine invertebrate ecology, physiology, evolutionary adaptation, microbial eukaryotes, ecophysiology of corals, trace metals, microbiology, squid-Vibrio symbiosis, Human-environment interactions, sustainability, kelp forest ecology, neuroendocrinology, and Tardigrade diversity and ecology.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.