An REU Site for Undergraduate Research Training in the Geosciences

在为期十周的暑期项目中，14名本科生将参加华盛顿卡内基研究所Broad Branch Road校区一位科学家的实质性研究，该校区包括地球物理实验室和地磁系。选择的主要标准将是奖学金、个人动机、由学生推荐信判断的科学潜力，以及学生兴趣与现有研究项目的良好匹配。在课程开始时，学生将被分配一名指导老师，并与该指导老师一起决定与地球或行星地球科学研究的某些方面相关的研究项目。学生将由导师指导研究中使用的方法，目标是在夏季结束前完成一个项目，该项目是导师更大的研究工作的一部分。学生将在两周的阅读和前期工作后撰写一份简短的研究计划。该小组还将每周在布罗德布兰奇路校区举行非正式的午餐研讨会，并与工作人员科学家进行交谈，向学生们介绍他们的兴趣、研究项目、职业道路和科学家的选择，这些都导致了他们在卡内基目前的职位。到华盛顿地区有兴趣的地质地点进行实地考察将补充暑期研究经验，到本科生也在进行暑期研究项目的其他地点进行考察也是如此。学生将准备一篇研究论文，描述他们的研究结果，并将在项目最后一周举行的特别研讨会上向他们的同龄人和研究人员展示结果。学生将被鼓励提交结果在专业会议上展示，或使用结果作为高级项目的一部分。我们课程的成功将通过学生论文和演讲的质量以及暑期结束时对学生进行的调查的反应来衡量。自1999年成立以来，我们一直在跟踪学生的进步，并开始积累实习生职业道路的数据；我们将在评估中包括对这些数据的分析

Summary of Proposed Work During a ten week summer program, 14 undergraduates will participate substantively in the research of a scientist at the Broad Branch Road campus of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which includes both the Geophysical Laboratory and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Primary criteria for selection will be scholarship, personal motivation, scientific potential as judged by student references, and a good match of student interests with available research programs. At the beginning of the program, students will be assigned an advisor and with that advisor will decide on a research project related to some aspect of earth or planetary geoscience research. Students will be instructed by advisors in the methods utilized in the research, with the goal of completing a project that is part of the larger research effort of the advisor by the end of the summer. Students will then write a short research proposal after two weeks of reading and preliminary work. The group will also meet each week for informal lunchtime seminars and conversation with staff scientists at the Broad Branch Road campus, giving students a personal introduction to the interests, research programs, and career paths and choices of scientists that have led to their current positions at Carnegie. Field trips to sites of geological interest in the Washington area will complement the summer research experience, as will trips to other sites where undergraduates are also working on summer research projects. Students will prepare a research paper describing the results of their research, and will present the results to their peers and the research staff at a special symposium held during the last week of the program. Students will be encouraged to submit the results for presentation at a professional meeting, or use the results as part of a senior project. The success of our program will be measured by the quality of student papers and presentations, as well as the responses to a survey given to students at the completion of the summer. We have also tracked the progress of students since our initial year in 1999, and have begun to accumulate data on the career paths of our interns; we will include an analysis of this data in our evaluations