UMEB: Travel to Estuarine Research Federation Conferences to be held in 2005 and 2007

这项UMEB计划每年将资助15名学生前往分别在弗吉尼亚州诺福克和罗德岛普罗维登斯举行的2005年秋季和2007年秋季河口研究联合会（ERF）两年一次的会议。资金将用于参与河口或沿海海洋研究的本科生，特别是那些在科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生。除了他们自己的海报展示和参加整个星期的口头和海报会议外，参加会议的学生还将参加预定的活动，包括会前研讨会，与杰出的ERF代表的初次见面会，与来自沿海国家科学基金会长期生态研究（LTER）项目的研究生和科学家的交流会，以及会议结束后的评估会议。通过每天的活动，学生和他们的导师将有组织的时间聚集在一起，作为一个小组和/或个人对讨论，分享和确保教育独特和有益的学习经验。其目标是利用ERF会议作为门户，通过早期吸引和留住本科生进入这些领域，增加少数民族对河口研究、管理和政策的参与。作为ERF教育委员会主席的PI （Randy Chambers）和他在威廉玛丽学院的工作人员将协调UMEB/ERF项目。欲了解更多信息，学生可致电（757）221-2331或rmcham@wm.edu与兰迪·钱伯斯联系，或访问就业基金网站http://www.erf.org。

This UMEB program will fund 15 students each year to travel to the Fall 2005 and 2007 Estuarine Research Federation (ERF) biennial conferences to be held in Norfolk, VA, and Providence, RI, respectively. Funding will be used for participation of undergraduate students who are involved in estuarine or coastal marine research, particularly those students from groups under-represented in the sciences. In addition to their own poster presentations and to attending oral and poster sessions throughout the week, participating students will attend scheduled events including a pre-conference workshop, an initial meet-and-greet session with distinguished ERF representatives, a mixer with graduate students and scientists from the coastal NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) programs, and an end-of-conference evaluation session. Through each day's events, the students and their mentors will have structured times to gather as a group and/or in individual pairs to discuss, share and ensure an educationally distinctive and rewarding learning experience. The goal is to use the ERF conference as a gateway to increase minority involvement in estuarine research, management and policy through early attraction and retention of undergraduate students into these fields. The PI (Randy Chambers), as chair of the ERF Education Committee, and his staff at the College of William and Mary will coordinate the UMEB/ERF program. For more information, students may contact Randy Chambers at (757) 221-2331 or rmcham@wm.edu, or visit the ERF website at http://www.erf.org.