REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution

科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的山地研究站每年夏天将接待10名学生参加为期10周的REU行为、生态和进化项目。我们的目标是为学生提供理解和开展生物学研究所需的工具，并鼓励学生，特别是那些来自教授群体的学生，攻读生物学研究生学位，并最终在高校从事教学和研究工作。招募具有不同文化背景的学生参与者将基于他们对教师导师的适当学科、职业目标和学术成就的兴趣。该项目的学生将参加为期一周的实地研究密集指导，然后在夏季剩余的时间里从事教师指导的个人项目。教师导师来自科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的生态和进化生物系，他们有活跃的研究项目，并致力于指导本科生。学生项目可以集中在高山湖泊和溪流的水质和群落生态学、高山和亚高山陆地生态系统的生物地球化学和群落生态学、植物在山地环境中繁殖和生存的适应进化、群居昆虫和鸟类的行为生态学以及鱼类配偶选择的进化等问题上。我们将REU的学生视为同事，期望他们加入研究界，并能够与研究生，博士后和教职员工平等地做出贡献。我们为希望在科学领域发展的学生提供背景和经验。我们项目的成功取决于让学生在完成十周的课程后，对科学过程有充分的了解，并对自己实施这一过程的能力有完全的信心。这个夏天的高潮是学生们以科学会议的形式展示他们的成果。山地研究站位于落基山脉前山脉海拔3000米的地方，距离大学的博尔德校区45分钟路程。毗邻的尼沃特岭生物圈保护区是美国国家科学基金会长期生态研究基地的所在地。我们的参与者住在鹿、麋鹿和其他野生动物经常出没的营地的乡村小屋中，但他们可以使用科考站和博尔德校区的世界级研究设施。欲了解更多信息和申请材料，请联系Michael breed教授michael.breed@colorado.edu,(303) 492-7687，或访问http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/EEBprojects/reu/。

The Mountain Research Station of the University of Colorado at Boulder will host 10 students each summer in a 10-week REU program in Behavior, Ecology and Evolution. Our goal is to give students the tools needed to understand and conduct biological research, and to encourage students, particularly those from groups that are under-represented in the professoriate, to pursue graduate degrees in biology and, ultimately, careers in teaching and research in colleges and universities. Recruitment of a culturally diverse group of student participants will be based on interest in the appropriate disciplines of their faculty mentors, career goals, and academic achievement. Students in the program will participate in a one-week intensive orientation to field research and then will work on faculty-mentored individual projects for the remainder of the summer. Faculty mentors are drawn from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, have active research programs, and are committed to mentoring undergraduate students. Student projects may focus on issues such as water quality and community ecology in alpine lakes and streams, biogeochemistry and community ecology of alpine and subalpine terrestrial ecosystems, the evolution of plant adaptations for reproduction and survival in montane environments, the behavioral ecology of social insects and birds, and the evolution of mate choice in fish. We treat our REU students as colleagues, with the expectation that they will join the research community and be able to contribute on an equal footing with graduate students, post-docs, and faculty. We provide background and experience to students who wish to advance their careers in science. The success of our program hinges on having students finish the ten weeks with a full knowledge of the scientific process and with complete confidence in their ability to implement the process. The summer culminates in student presentations of their results in a scientific meeting format. The Mountain Research Station, located at 3000 meters elevation in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, is 45 minutes from the University's Boulder campus. The adjacent Niwot Ridge Biosphere Reserve is home to an NSF-Long Term Ecological Research site. Our participants live in rustic cabins in a camp that is frequented by deer, elk, and other wildlife, but have access to world-class research facilities at the Station and the Boulder campus. For further information and application materials, please contact Prof. Michael breed at michael.breed@colorado.edu, (303) 492-7687, or visit http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/EEBprojects/reu/.