REU SITE: Summer Research Opportunities in Enviromental Sciences in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of California

加州大学怀特山研究站这个REU计划将国家招收的本科生与有成就的学术科学家联系起来。将特别强调纳入少数族裔和女学生，以便他们可以从研究和团队建设经验中受益。这些研究小组将在加利福尼亚州内华达山脉东部地区独特而具有挑战性的环境中工作，并将使用位于怀特山的四个实验室设施。这个REU站点将涵盖从高海拔生理学到种群生态学的广泛的环境生物学研究。这些项目将使学生接触到广泛相关的研究问题和最先进的技术，同时允许每个学生深入探索项目的一个特定方面。项目导师将通过支持学生的技术、后勤和组织需求来促进REU。项目开始时为期一周的指导将向学生介绍研究项目和导师，并向学生提供有关该地区和团队建设过程的基本知识。在教师导师的带领下，每周一次的研究团队会议将为对前一周工作的传统科学审查提供时间。此外，学生们还将以小组形式见面，讨论他们作为研究团队成员的进展情况。这个项目的一个重要重点是团队建设和积极的工作环境，以及学生通过讨论和反馈在这一过程中的直接作用。因此，REU计划的影响将是扩大学生对有效研究计划的理解和参与，同时产生有可能对特定研究做出重大贡献的研究

White Mountain Research Station, University of CaliforniaThis REU program will link nationally recruited undergraduates with accomplished academic scientists. Special emphasis will be placed on including minority and women students so they may benefit from the research and team building experience. These research teams will work in the unique and challenging environment of the eastern Sierra Nevada region of California and will use four laboratory facilities in the White Mountains. This REU site will encompass a wide range of environmental biology research, from high altitude physiology to population ecology. These projects will expose students to broadly related research questions and state-of-the-art technologies, while allowing each student to explore a particular aspect of a project in depth. Project mentors will facilitate the REU by supporting the technological, logistical, and organizational needs of the students. Week long orientations at the beginning of the program will introduce the research projects and mentors to the students, and provide the students with basic knowledge of the region and the team building process. Led by faculty mentors, weekly research team meetings will provide time for traditional scientific reviews of the previous week's work. Additionally, students will also meet as a group and discuss how they are progressing as members of their research teams. An important emphasis of this program will be team building and positive work environments and the direct role of students in the process through discussions and feedback. As a result, the impact of this REU program will be to expand a student's understanding of, and participation in, effective research programs while producing research that has the potential to contribute substantially to a particular