UMEB: Anthropogenic Stresses on Natural Ecosystems

0080288WrubelThis计划提供了一个丰富的教育和研究经验，对自然生态系统的人类影响的主题为重点的代表性不足的少数民族学生。我们的目标是为学生提供研究技能和信心的基础上，他们的成就，从而鼓励他们追求职业生涯在环境生物学。 教师将参加研讨会，以促进有效的辅导关系与学生从少数群体。 经过初步的学生方向，包括实验室轮换，学生将与他们选择的导师密切合作。 学生将参与严谨但支持性的研究环境，导致一个独立项目的完成和演示。 为了促进社区意识，学生和教师将参加小组活动，讨论科学的实践和影响，并探索主题。 人类压力对环境的后果仍然是一个迫切的问题，需要深入调查。这些后果包括改变土地（农业、林业和城市化）和海洋（拖网捕捞、疏浚和废物倾倒），改变地球化学循环和减少生物多样性。 学生将直接推进积极的研究计划，解决这些影响。 参加该计划的学生将来自城市社区，其环境受到人类活动的高度影响。他们将热衷于涉及其环境的科学，研究的好处将是显而易见的。 这个城市学生群体将有更大的可能性继续他们的研究超出程序，并带来了一个独特的和重要的视角，以环境生物学领域。

0080288WrubelThis program provides underrepresented minority students with an enriched educational and research experience, focused on the theme of human impacts on natural ecosystems. The goal is to provide students with research skills and with confidence based on their accomplishments, thus encouraging them to pursue careers in environmental biology. Faculty will participate in workshops to facilitate effective mentoring relationships with students from minority groups. After an initial student orientation including laboratory rotations, students will work closely with their chosen mentor. Students will engage in rigorous yet supportive research settings, leading to the completion and presentation of an independent project. To promote a sense of community, students and faculty will participate in group activities discussing the practice and implications of science, and exploring the theme. The consequences of human stresses on the environment remain a pressing issue requiring intense investigation. These consequences range from transformation of the land (agriculture, forestry and urbanization) and sea (trawling, dredging and waste dumping) to alterations of biogeochemical cycles and reduction of biodiversity. The students will directly advance active research programs addressing these impacts. The students joining the program will be drawn from urban communities with environments highly influenced by human activities. They will be keenly engaged in science involving their environment and the benefits of the research will be apparent. This urban cohort of students will have a greater likelihood of continuing their studies beyond the program and brings a unique and important perspective to the field of environmental biology.