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

格鲁吉亚州立大学将举办社区土壤空气水（CSAW）研究经验的本科生。这个REU网站将每年夏天培训10名学生进行以地球科学为重点的社区研究。基于社区的研究侧重于需要与社区一起并为社区进行研究。学生将与社区研究员，研究生，学士后研究人员和教师合作，开发研究问题。团队将从跨学科的角度工作，同时借鉴地球科学学科知识。研究成果将有助于增强社区成员对环境相关问题的了解。这个本科生研究经验计划每年夏天将培训10名本科生进行基于社区的研究，重点是地球科学主题。奖学金表明，回答围绕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工作。以社区，土壤，空气和水为研究主题，来自不同背景的CSAW REU学生将融入MS更大的CSAW学习生态系统。和学士后研究人员。一个由社区研究员，教师，硕士，和学士学位后的研究人员将指导和指导REU学生，他们将从跨学科的角度回答社区驱动的问题，同时借鉴地理学，关键GIS，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，允许并扩大基于地方的行动研究中的相互学习和合作。学生们将围绕社区地图绘制、棕地土壤铅和砷污染、极端气温和天气、水污染和工业排放等主题进行基于地点的研究。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。

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.