REU: The HERO REU Site

该奖项为人类环境区域天文台项目（HERO）的一个reu站点提供支持。HERO正在开发基础设施，以研究和监测当地地区全球环境变化的人为原因和后果。当地英雄将从宾夕法尼亚州、马萨诸塞州、堪萨斯州和亚利桑那州选出三名学生参加该网站。学生们将通过为期两周的短期课程开始他们的暑期研究活动，这些课程将向他们介绍研究全球环境变化的局部维度所需的概念和工具。短期课程结束后，REU的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。REU的三人学生团队将与一名教师研究导师、其他教师、博士后研究人员和在当地英雄项目工作的研究生一起工作六周。学生将学习地理信息系统、航空照片、遥感图像和地理定位系统等工具。这些活动将包括绘图和实地检查：土地覆盖和土地利用；自然和技术危害；基本设施;潜在的弱势社会经济群体、企业、工厂、资源开采和加工设施以及其他商业场所；以及重要的生物栖息地。学生还将参加面试和焦点小组。他们将通过HERO远程协作工具与其他本地英雄组织的同事保持联系。该奖项有助于基金会继续努力，通过积极的本科研究经历吸引有才华的学生进入科学事业。

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 tools. This award contributes to the Foundation's continuing efforts to attract talented students into careers in science through active undergraduate research experiences.