Research Experiences for Undergraduates - REU: The HERO REU Site

该奖项为REU网站提供支持，作为人类环境区域观测站项目（HERO）的一部分。 HERO正在发展基础设施，以研究和监测全球环境变化在当地的人为原因和后果。 当地HERO将从宾夕法尼亚州、马萨诸塞州、堪萨斯和亚利桑那州选出三名学生参加现场活动。 学生们将通过参加为期两周的短期课程开始他们的夏季研究活动，这些课程将向他们介绍研究全球环境变化的地方层面所需的概念和工具。 短期课程结束后，REU学生将返回他们的家乡，在那里他们将在当地的英雄进行平行的研究活动。 三人REU学生团队将与教师研究导师，其他教师，博士后研究人员和在当地HERO工作的研究生一起工作六周。 学生将被介绍给这样的工具，如地理信息系统，航空照片，遥感图像和地理定位系统。 这些活动将包括对以下方面进行测绘和实地检查：土地覆盖和土地使用;自然和技术灾害;基本设施;潜在弱势社会经济群体、企业、工厂、资源开采和加工设施以及其他商业场所;重要生物生境。 学生还将参加面试和焦点小组。 他们将通过HERO远程协作（collaboratory）工具与当地其他HERO的同事保持联系。该奖项有助于基金会通过积极的本科生研究经验，继续努力吸引有才华的学生从事科学事业。

This award provides support for an REU-Site as part of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO). HERO is developing the infrastructure to study and monitor the human causes and consequences of global environmental change in local areas. Local HEROs will select three students from Pennsylvania, from Massachusetts, from Kansas, and from Arizona to participate in the Site. The students will start their summer research activities by taking a two-week short courses that will introduce them to the concepts and tools needed to study the local dimensions of global environmental change. After the short course, the REU students will return to their home states where they will conduct parallel research activities at the local HEROS. The three-person REU student teams will work for six weeks with a faculty research mentor, other faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students working at the local HEROs. Students will be introduced to such tools as geographic information systems, aerial photographs, remote sensing images, and geo-positioning systems. The activities will include the mapping and field checking of: land cover and land use; natural and technological hazards; essential facilities; potentially vulnerable socioeconomic groups, businesses, factories, resource extraction and processing facilities, and other commercial sites; and critical biological habitats. Students will also engage in interviews and focus groups. They will stay linked to their colleagues at the other local HEROs through HERO remote collaboration (collaboratory) tools.This award contributes to the Foundation's continuing efforts to attract talented students into careers in science through active undergraduate research experiences.