REU-Undergraduate Research On Microbial, Vegetation, and Arthropod Communities in Forests and Managed Lands in New Jersey and Costa Rica

2010年夏季，向基恩大学提供了为期10周的研究培训，供6名学生参加。6名学生将与3名教师进行研究，分析数据，并撰写研究出版物，涉及评估和比较植被，节肢动物和土壤微生物群落的结构，多样性和生物量，以及哥斯达黎加和美国东北部完整和管理森林内土壤C和N组分的组成。通过这个项目，学生和教师将：1）确定栖息地条件的潜在指标; 2）确定土壤中的营养差异是否可以与不同营养水平的生物群差异相关，或确定为不同营养水平的生物群差异的驱动因素;和3）确定是否可以通过生境类型或管理策略在和/或或在美国东部和哥斯达黎加研究的地区之间。这些学生，包括来自代表性不足群体的学生，将从基恩大学生物学项目和DOE罗纳德麦克奈尔项目以及其他大学和基恩大学的普通学生中招募。学生将接受研究伦理培训，使用研究伦理教育网站资源（http：//research-ethics.net/topics/）作为主要资源。SURE（http：//web.grinnell.edu/sureii/）和（http：www.colorado.edu/eer/research/ undergradtools.html）工具都将用于确定学生对自身能力的科学认识如何变化;该计划是否影响他们如何看待自己作为科学家;他们的主要成就是什么;以及他们对生态/环境科学的全球视角的发展。欲了解更多信息，请联系比尔伊顿博士，环境与生命科学学院，基恩大学，1000莫里斯大街，联盟，新泽西州07083; 908-737-3653; weaton@kean.edu; http://www.kean.edu/~sels/resources/REU2010.pdf。

An award was made to Kean University to provide research training for 10 weeks for 6 students, for the summer of 2010. The 6 students will work with 3 faculty conducting research, analyzing data, and writing research publications involving assessment and comparison of the structure, diversity, and biomass of vegetation, arthropod, and soil microbial communities, and the composition of soil C and N components within intact and managed forests of Costa Rica and the northeastern United States. Through this project students and faculty will: 1) identify potential indicators of habitat condition; 2) determine if nutrient differences in soil can be correlated with, or determined as, drivers of differences in the biota of the different trophic levels; and 3) determine if similar patterns of ecological significance by habitat type or management strategy can be seen within and/or between areas studied in the eastern US and Costa Rica. The students, including those from underrepresented groups, will be recruited from the Kean University Biology Program and DOE Ronald McNair program and from other universities, and from the general student population at Kean University. Students will receive training in Ethics in Research, using the Resources for Research Ethics Education website (http://research-ethics.net/topics/) as the primary resource. Both the SURE (http://web.grinnell.edu/sureiii/) and (http://www.colorado.edu/eer/research/ undergradtools.html) instruments will be used to determine how students' perceptions of science of their own abilities have changed; whether the program influences how well they see themselves as scientists; what their primary accomplishments have been; and their development of a global perspective on the ecological/environmental sciences. For more information, contact Dr. Bill Eaton, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ 07083; 908-737-3653; weaton@kean.edu; http://www.kean.edu/~sels/resources/REU2010.pdf.