Development of an REU Site for Tropical Limnology Associated With the International Decade of East African Lakes (IDEAL) Program

题目：与东非湖泊国际十年（IDEAL）计划相关的热带湖泊学REU站点的开发该奖项支持为美国本科生开发热带湖泊研究REU站点夏季项目。10至12名学生将每年花6周的时间，通过强化训练和独立研究项目，学习热带湖泊的物理化学、生物和地质过程的基础知识。该项目将设在坦桑尼亚的基戈马，位于非洲坦噶尼喀湖岸边。坦噶尼喀湖是一个世界级的自然实验室，用于研究有关热带湖泊如何运作的各种具有科学意义的问题。该网站利用了教师对湖泊的研究记录以及对当地和区域物流的熟悉程度。此外，该项目还将从计划中的一个针对非洲大学生的同步且相同的项目中获得独特的好处，该项目将由联合国全球环境基金（GEF）坦噶尼喀湖项目单独资助。该项目还将利用全球环境基金项目和坦桑尼亚渔业研究所基戈马站的设施和基本设备。该计划的教师集体跨越了水生生物学，物理和化学湖沼学，气候学和地质学的研究专业知识。目前，他们都在积极开展湖泊研究项目，并将为学生提供参与科学重大问题研究的机会。该项目旨在成为来自全国各地计划从事热带湖泊学和古气候学研究的高积极性学生的中心焦点活动。更广泛地说，它旨在激发人们对热带湖泊研究在理解全球变化过程中的重要性的兴趣，并作为了解尚未在美国发生的淡水生态变化的预警研究领域。这项工作通过东非湖泊国际十年（IDEAL）进行协调。

Abstract ATM-9619458 Cohen, Andrew S. University of Arizona Title: Development of an REU Site for Tropical Limnology Associated With the International Decade of the Eastern African Lakes (IDEAL) Program This award supports the development of an REU Site summer program in tropical lake studies for American undergraduate students. Ten to twelve students will spend six weeks per year learning the fundamentals of physicochemical, biological and geological processes in tropical lakes through intensive training and independent research projects. The Program will be located in Kigoma, Tanzania, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Africa, a world-class natural laboratory for investigating a wide variety of scientifically significant questions about how tropical lakes work. This site takes advantage of the faculty's record of research on the lake and familiarity with local and regional logistics. Additionally the program will reap unique benefits from a planned association with a simultaneous and identical program for African undergraduates, to be funded separately by the United Nations Global Environmental Facility (GEF) program for Lake Tanganyika. The program will also take advantage of facilities and capital equipment on site from the GEF program and the Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute, Kigoma Station. The program faculty collectively span a board range of research expertise in aquatic biology, physical and chemical limnology, climatology and geolimnology. All are currently engaged in active research programs on the lake and will offer students the opportunity to become involved in research on scientifically significant questions. This program aims to become a central focus activity for highly motivated students from around the country who are planning a research career in tropical limnology and paleoclimatology. More broadly, it is intended to stimulate interest in the importance of tropical lake studies in understanding global change processes and as an early-warning study area for understanding freshwater ecologic changes that have not yet occurred in the U.S. This effort is coordinated through the International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL).