REU Site: Urbanization Impacts on Stream Ecosystems

这个REU网站专注于城市化对溪流生态系统的影响，是一个为期10周的暑期项目，旨在为学生提供机会，调查城市化是当前生物多样性下降危机的关键因素。学生将开发和开展独立的研究项目，重点是凯霍加河流域的生物多样性和生态功能的跨学科研究。该体验将从为期两周的培训和基础培训开始，其中包括分水岭之旅以及溪流生态学和基础研究技能的指导。该计划的其余部分将主要用于独立研究。所有学生项目将围绕城市化改变河流生物的生态和遗传多样性这一中心概念进行整合，但学生将在接近这一假设的项目中进行选择，采用不同的方法和生物，包括研究植物、无脊椎动物、鱼类和两栖动物的生态学或遗传多样性。学生还将参加由REU教员和访问专家举办的研讨会，重点强调城市生态系统研究的基本研究技能、城市生态学和社会文化层面。此外，学生还将参加研讨会，重点是(1)城市环境科学的教育和就业机会，以及(2)科学数据的分析、解释和交流。这一经历将以一个研究研讨会结束，在研讨会上，学生向教师、环境科学家和资源管理专业人员展示他们的工作。招生工作将针对缺乏生态研究机会的城市机构的生物和环境科学专业，以及科学领域中代表性不足的群体。欲了解更多信息，请联系迈克尔·沃尔顿博士，电话：216-687-3979，电子邮件：b.walton@csuohio.edu，或访问http://www.csuohio.edu/ei/.。

This REU Site focused on Urbanization Impacts on Stream Ecosystems is a 10-week summer program designed to provide students with opportunities to investigate urbanization as a critical factor in the current crisis of declining biodiversity. Students will develop and conduct independent research projects emphasizing interdisciplinary studies of biodiversity and ecological function of the Cuyahoga River watershed. The experience will begin with a two-week orientation and basic training that includes a tour of the watershed and instructions in stream ecology and fundamental research skills. The balance of the program will be devoted largely to independent research. All student projects will be integrated around the central concept that urbanization alters the ecology and genetic diversity of stream organisms, but students will select among projects approaching this hypothesis with different methods and organisms, including studies of ecology or genetic diversity of plants, invertebrates, fish, and amphibians. Students will also participate in seminars presented by REU faculty and visiting experts emphasizing basic research skills, urban ecology, and socio-cultural dimensions of urban ecosystem studies. In addition, students will attend workshops emphasizing (1) educational and career opportunities in urban environmental science, and (2) analysis, interpretation, and communication of scientific data. The experience will conclude with a research symposium at which students present their work to faculty, environmental scientists, and resource management professionals. Student recruitment efforts will target biological and environmental science majors from urban institutions lacking ecological research opportunities and under-represented groups in the sciences. More information is available by contacting Dr. B. Michael Walton at 216-687-3979 or b.walton@csuohio.edu, or visiting http://www.csuohio.edu/ei/.