Track 2: Developing a Sustainable RESESS Program

学生固体地球科学研究经验（RESESS）项目已经成为一个成功的项目，为地球科学本科生提供多年的暑期研究实习机会，这些本科生来自科学领域代表性不足的人群。学生在二年级或三年级被招募，完成为期10周的实习，包括研究、领导力培训、为期8周的沟通研讨会、多方面的指导和最后的研讨会。该奖项提供的额外资金将用于扩大实习生人数，扩大项目的科学内容和地理覆盖范围，并在具有传播指导的项目基础设施的基础上建立可持续发展模式，从而使RESESS取得更大的成功。扩大后的项目每年将至少支持12名实习生，学生们将在博尔德度过头两年，然后在为期10周的暑期经历中过渡到美国各地与研究导师一起工作。RESESS将继续与获奖的大气研究与科学重大机遇（SOARS）项目成功合作。扩展到一个更加分布式的指导模式——这是必要的，因为地质和地球物理学界没有类似于国家大气研究中心（NCAR）的中央研究机构——正在通过扩大伙伴关系来实现。这些合作伙伴包括科罗拉多州戈尔登市美国地质调查局（USGS）的科学家、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校UNAVCO的工作人员、UNAVCO和地震学联合研究机构（IRIS）研究联盟的科学家，以及科罗拉多多样性倡议和加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的新合作伙伴。实习生的研究项目包括GPS的技术方面，分析亚洲地震的地震活动，模拟火山岩浆运动，安装GPS网络监测区域构造，昆虫对化石树叶的破坏的古气候分析，南极洲的轮廓等。为了在美国国家科学基金会的资助下维持该项目，RESESS正在探索卓越业务绩效模式的效用，同时与社区合作，增加科学和财政资源，并探索多样化的资金来源。

The Research Experience in Solid Earth Science for Students (RESESS) program has established itself as a successful program for multi-year summer research internships for Earth science undergraduates from populations underrepresented in science. Students are recruited in their sophomore or junior year and complete 10-week internships that include research, leadership training, an eight-week communication workshop, multi-faceted mentoring, and a final colloquium. Additional funding through this award is being used to take RESESS to the next level of success by expanding the number of interns, extending the scientific content and geographic reach of the program, and building a model for sustainability based on a program infrastructure with disseminated mentoring. The expanded program will support a minimum of 12 interns per year, with students spending their first two years in Boulder and then transitioning to work with research mentors throughout the United States during their 10-week summer experience. RESESS will continue a successful collaboration with the award-winning Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) program. Expansion into a more distributed model of mentoring - necessary because there is no central research facility analogous to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for the geology and geophysics community - is being achieved through expanded partnerships. These partners include scientists in the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Golden, Colorado, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, staff at UNAVCO, and scientists of the UNAVCO and Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) research consortia, along with new partners in the Colorado Diversity Initiative and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Intern research projects are expected to include topics such as the technical aspects of GPS, analyzing the seismicity of Asian earthquakes, modeling volcanic magma movement, installing GPS networks to monitor regional tectonics, paleoclimate analyses of insect damage to fossil leaves, lineaments in Antarctica, and others. To sustain the program beyond NSF funding, RESESS is exploring the utility of the Business Performance Excellence model, while engaging the community for increased scientific and financial resources and exploring diversified funding sources.