REU Site: Effects of Energy Technologies on Environmental Systems

萨凡纳河生态实验室（SREL） REU项目通过积极参与本科生，特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的本科生，与全职研究科学家一起参与项目，提供科学培训和研究实践经验。与会者考察了核能和化石燃料能源生产及相关技术对东南部生态系统生物特性的影响。SREL位于美国能源部的萨凡纳河遗址（SRS）上，那里有各种各样的栖息地，包括松树和硬木林、废弃的农田、淡水溪流和湿地，毗邻工业设施和人为干扰地区。REU项目寻求多样性，并积极招募少数族裔申请人。进入该计划的学生将与具有相同兴趣的教师配对，并执行与SREL正在进行的研究相关联的独立研究项目。学院的研究领域多种多样，从分子到景观，涉及植物、动物、微生物以及环境化学、统计和环境修复。学生们将参加一系列关于研究设计、伦理、数据收集和处理以及口头和书面报告结果的研讨会。学生们还参加棕色包研讨会讨论小组和实地考察代表性的实地考察。在项目结束时，每个学生在他们的同龄人和SREL教职员工面前就他们的项目做一个简短的研讨会，并根据他们的研究准备一份科学手稿。研究经验的学分（3小时）可通过佐治亚大学获得。欲了解更多信息，请联系jagoe@srel.edu或访问www.uga.edu/srel/REU/index.htm。

The Savannah River Ecology Laboratory's (SREL) REU program provides scientific training and hands-on experience in research by actively involving undergraduates, especially those from under-represented groups, in projects with full time research scientists. Participants examine the influence of nuclear and fossil fuel energy production and associated technologies on biological properties of southeastern ecosystems. SREL is located on the US Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS), where a variety of habitats including pine and hardwood forests, abandoned farmlands, and freshwater streams and wetlands adjoin industrial facilities and anthropogenically-disturbed areas. The REU program seeks diversity and actively recruits minority applicants. Students accepted into the program are paired with faculty members with compatible interests, and perform independent research projects that interface with ongoing research at SREL. Faculty research areas are diverse, spanning scales from molecular to landscape, and involving plants, animals, and microbes as well as environmental chemistry, statistics and environmental remediation. Students participate in a series of workshops on research design, ethics, data collection and processing, and oral and written presentation of results. Students also participate in brown bag seminar-discussion groups and field trips to representative field sites. At the conclusion of the program, each student presents a brief seminar on their project before their peers and SREL faculty and staff, and prepares a scientific manuscript based on their research. Credit (3 hrs) for the research experience is available through the University of Georgia. For more information, students are encouraged to contact jagoe@srel.edu or visit www.uga.edu/srel/REU/index.htm.