REU Site: Community-Soil-Air-Water: A Geoscience Learning Ecosystem for Urban Environments

佐治亚州立大学将为本科生举办社区-土壤-空气-水(CSAW)研究体验。这个REU网站每年夏天将培训10名学生进行以地球科学为重点的社区研究。以社区为基础的研究侧重于与社区和为社区进行研究的必要性。学生将与社区成员、研究生、获得学士学位后的研究人员和教职员工一起开发研究问题。团队将从跨学科的角度开展工作，同时利用地球科学的学科知识。研究成果将帮助社区成员了解他们与环境相关的问题。这个本科生研究体验项目将在每年夏天培训10名本科生进行基于社区的研究，重点是地球科学主题。学术研究表明，回答有关环境威胁的紧迫问题需要培训科学家与社区和社区合作伙伴公平和负责任地合作。以社区、土壤、空气和水为研究主题，来自不同背景的CSAW REU学生将被整合到更大的CSAW学习生态系统中，这些生态系统由理工科硕士和毕业后的研究人员组成。不同的社区研究员、教师、硕士和毕业后研究人员将指导和指导REU的学生，他们将从跨学科的角度回答社区驱动的问题，同时利用地理学、关键地理信息系统、气候变化、水文学、土壤科学等领域的关键学科知识。这种指导结构将跨越多个职业阶段和职业道路，允许并扩大基于地点的行动研究中的相互学习和合作。学生们将围绕社区地图、棕地土壤铅和砷污染、气温和极端天气以及水污染和工业排放等主题开展基于地点的研究。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。

Georgia State University will host the Community-Soil-Air-Water (CSAW) Research Experience for Undergraduates. This REU site will train 10 students per summer to conduct geoscience-focused community-based research. Community-based research focuses on the need to do research with and for communities. Students will work with community fellows, graduate students, post-baccalaureate researchers, and faculty to develop research questions. Teams will work from an interdisciplinary perspective while drawing on geoscience disciplinary knowledge. The research outcomes will help empower community members with knowledge about their environmental-related issues.This Research Experience for Undergraduates program will train ten undergraduate students each summer in community-based research, with a focus on geoscience topics. Scholarship shows that answering pressing questions around environmental threats requires training scientists to work equitably and accountably with communities and community partners. With research themes of community, soil, air, and water, CSAW REU students from diverse backgrounds will be integrated into the larger CSAW learning ecosystem of M.S. and post-baccalaureate researchers. A diverse group of community fellows, faculty, M.S., and post-baccalaureate researchers will mentor and guide the REU students, who will answer community-driven questions from an interdisciplinary perspective while drawing on key disciplinary knowledge in the fields of geography, critical GIS, climate change, hydrology, soil sciences, and more. This mentoring structure will cross multiple career stages and career paths, allowing for and amplifying mutual learning and collaboration in place-based action research. Students will conduct place-based research around themes of community mapping, soil lead and arsenic contamination from brownfields, air temperature and weather extremes, and water pollution and industrial discharges.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.