REU: Stable Isotopic Applications to Great Plains Ecology, Paleoecology, Archeology, and Physiology

该奖项提供资金，以继续REU支持， 又在奥古斯塔纳大学生物系待了一年 学院 该计划将支持本科生 参与重点研究项目， 整合了十名研究人员的研究活动， 奥古斯塔纳学院（6），内布拉斯加大学(1)《大自然》The Nature Conservancy（1），S.D.州立大学（1）和黑山州立大学 大学（1）。这些项目在科学上是一体化的， 由于草原生态的共同利益， 古生态学，因为每个项目受益于 C和N的稳定同位素在 方法论一个团结的团队和独特的方法将 用于继续生态和考古 在生态丰富的地理区域进行重建 资源，并包括日益增长的兴趣饮食和 physiology. REU学生将积极参与， 奥古斯塔纳学院主办国际会议。对 1993年的骨骼改造。四名高中教师将 参与，由S。达科他州 系统性倡议。 十名学生（一半是女性，一半来自校外）将学习 现场和实验室的问题与共同的焦点。 他们 将有望获得一些理论上的掌握 他们的研究基础以及实验设计， 终极诠释每周的研讨会和讲习班将 审查每个项目的理论基础和研究设计; 加强学生的图书馆、实验室、资料处理， 和科学写作技巧;并扩大他们的 了解相关项目。为期十周的夏季 计划和学年的独立研究将达到高潮 在REU研讨会上，每个学生都将介绍 他/她的结果和结论，并帮助制定 为明年夏天的项目做准备。杰出女性 将再次被选为研讨会发言人，并担任 榜样将邀请20所高中进行选拔 一名优秀女学生参加REU研讨会， 夏天回来一天。一个重要的道德会议将 并分发一份关于重新埋葬问题的报告 博物馆标本和动物研究。

This award provides funds to continue REU support for another year in the Department of Biology at Augustana College. The program will support undergraduate participation in a focused research program which integrates the research activities of ten investigators from Augustana College (6), Univ. Neb. (1), The Nature Conservancy (1), S.D. State Univ. (1), and Black Hills State Univ. (1). The projects are integrated at the scientific level because of the common interests in prairie ecology and paleoecology, and because each project benefits from the applications of the stable isotopes of C and N to the methodology. A coherent group and a unique methodology will be used to continue ecological and archeological reconstructions in a geographic area of rich ecological resources and to encompass growing interest in diets and physiology. The REU students will be active participants as Augustana College hosts the International Conference. on Bone Modifications in 1993. Four high school teachers will participate, funded in total by the S. Dakota-NSF State Systemic Initiative. Ten students (half women, half from off-campus) will study field and laboratory problems with a common focus. They will be expected to gain some mastery of the theoretical basis for their study as well as the experimental design and ultimate interpretation. Weekly seminars and workshops will review each project's theoretical basis and research design; enhance the students' library, laboratory, data handling, and scientific writing skills; and broaden their understanding of the related projects. The ten-week summer program and academic year independent study will culminate in an REU Symposium in which each student will present his/her results and conclusions and help develop the hypotheses for next summer's projects. Outstanding women will be selected again as seminar speakers and to serve as role models. Twenty high schools will be invited to select an outstanding woman student to attend the REU Symposium and return for one day in summer. A major ethics conference will be hosted and a report disseminated dealing with reburial of museum specimens and animal research.