REU Site: Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange (ERIE)

纽约州立大学布法罗分校的这项为期三年的REU现场项目将从跨学科的角度关注生态系统恢复这一主题。该计划的结构将与正在进行的具有相同主题的NSF IGERT培训计划(ERIE-IGERT)密切相关。本科生将受益于正在进行的与ERIE-IGERT相关的研讨会和培训机会，并将在包括IGERT博士生在内的扩大的指导社区中工作。Erie-IGERT和拟议的Erie-REU项目都是跨学科的，有来自七个学术部门的教职员工。这两个项目都是以地方为基础的，目的是通过重点研究五大湖下游和纽约西部地区的生态恢复，促进生态系统恢复的科学和工程基础。因此，这个伊利-罗伊斯大学的现场项目不仅将使本科生的REU参与者受益，也将使其他伊利教职员工、专业人士和博士生受益。在研究方法的正式培训之后，将组织三个跨学科主题的个人研究：1)湖泊和河流恢复，2)地下水恢复，3)新的处理应用。该REU网站计划还包括一个伦理部分，将重点放在生态恢复的伦理和价值观上。学生将与他们的研究主题共同参与者参加周中的小组会议，以及与整个REU队列每周举行的座谈会，其中包括基于主题的研究报告和每周的实地考察和/或社交活动。最后，在REU项目的最后一周，学生们将参加一次最终的体验，将REU和IGERT的学生聚集在一起，向不同的学术和专业观众展示他们的项目。首席调查员将从工程和科学的学术项目中广泛招聘。PI将利用与少数族裔机构建立的关系，Erie-IGERT对美洲原住民问题的关注，以及拥有成功本科生指导记录的女性学者的领导。

This three-year REU Site program at SUNY at Buffalo will focus on the topic of Ecosystem Restoration from an interdisciplinary perspective. The structure of the program will be closely linked with the ongoing NSF IGERT Traineeship program with the same theme (ERIE-IGERT). Undergraduate students will benefit from ongoing workshops and training opportunities associated with the ERIE-IGERT, and will work within an expanded mentoring community that includes IGERT doctoral trainees. Both the ERIE-IGERT and the proposed ERIE-REU programs are interdisciplinary, with faculty participants from seven academic departments. Both programs are place-based, with the objective of advancing the science and engineering underpinnings of ecosystem restoration through studies focused on the ecological recovery of the lower Great Lakes and Western New York regions. Thus, this ERIE-REU site program will benefit not only the undergraduate REU participants, but other ERIE faculty, professional, and doctoral participants. Formal training in research methods will be followed by individual research organized in three interdisciplinary themes: 1) lake and river restoration, 2) groundwater restoration, and 3) novel treatment applications. This REU Site program also includes an ethics component that will focus on the ethics and values of ecological restoration. Students will attend mid-week group meetings with their research theme co-participants, as well as weekly colloquia with the entire REU cohort, which includes both theme-based research presentations and a weekly field trip and/or social event. Finally, during the last week of the REU program, students will participate in a culminating experience that will bring REU and IGERT students together to present their projects to a diverse academic and professional audience.The Principal Investigator will recruit broadly from academic programs in engineering and science. The PI will leverage established relationships with minority institutions, the ERIE-IGERT focus on Native American issues, and the leadership of female scholars with established track records of successful undergraduate mentoring.