REU Site: Ecosystem Informatics Summer Institute

本网站的目标是：（1）培养学生从生态系统，地球，工程，数学和计算机科学在合作的跨学科研究和专业发展;（2）阻止美国公民逃离STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）学科通过招募合格的，多样化的学生从事生态问题，需要计算机，数学科学和工程输入;（3）进行研究，开发和应用计算机科学，工程和数学的新技术，以解决自然资源管理问题，使信息学能够使科学和科学能够开发工具。我们将通过结构化的研究经验，专题和专业发展研讨会，与其他REU网站交流，身临其境的现场体验，以及指导和发展合议关系来实现这些目标。学生将从生态学，地球科学，工程，数学和计算机科学招募。我们将积极招募美洲原住民，非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔学生，并将为所有学生提供高质量的指导，研究生院奖学金机会和职业咨询，使他们能够进入劳动力市场，为自然资源管理和政策做出关键贡献。我们打算为学生提供当今科学环境的技能，其中信息技术和模型是生态系统管理的重要组成部分。 在跨学科科学家团队的指导下，参与者将致力于解决五个关键主题的研究项目：（1）农业可持续性（“传粉者网络”）;（2）气候变化对生物的影响（“鸟类的生物声学”）;（3）河流修复（4）可持续的水生生境（“水生昆虫”）和（5）沿海灾害和可持续性（“海浪和植被”）。 这些研究主题中的每一个都整合了生态学原理、实地经验、新颖的工程技术、计算机科学的新发展以及数学建模和问题解决。 这些活动将促进发现，同时促进气候变化，生态变化和生态系统恢复等关键政策问题的培训和学习。 REU网站将招募和培训代表性不足的少数民族，加强安德鲁斯森林LTER和OSU波浪实验室的基础设施和项目，并向USFS合作伙伴传播管理和政策影响。 该网站还将作为一个全国性的模式，改造本科生的教育，拥抱生态系统信息学（EI）作为一套工具和一种心态，在跨学科的背景下接近和解决自然资源问题。

The objectives of this REU Site are: (1) to train students from ecosystem, earth, engineering, mathematics, and computer sciences in collaborative interdisciplinary research and professional development; (2) to forestall the flight of US citizens from STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines by recruiting qualified, diverse students to engage in ecological problems requiring computer, mathematical sciences and engineering input; and (3) to conduct research to develop and apply novel techniques in computer science, engineering, and mathematics to solve natural resource management problems, allowing informatics to enable the science and the science to enable tool development. We will achieve these objectives through structured research experiences, thematic and professional development seminars, exchanges with other REU sites, immersive field experiences, and mentoring and development of collegial relationships. Students will be recruited from ecology, geosciences, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. We will actively recruit Native American, African American, and Hispanic students and will provide all students with high quality mentoring, graduate school fellowship opportunities, and career counseling, so they will enter the workforce equipped to make key contributions to natural resources management and policy. We intend to provide students with skills for today's science environment, where information technology and models are essential parts of ecosystem management. Mentored by teams of interdisciplinary scientists, participants will work on research projects addressing five key themes: (1) agricultural sustainability ("pollinator networks"); (2) climate change effects on organisms ("bioacoustics of birds"); (3) river restoration ("fish and engineered log jams"); (4) sustainable aquatic habitats ("aquatic insects") and (5) coastal hazards and sustainability ("waves and vegetation"). Each of these research themes integrates ecological principles, field experiences, novel engineering techniques, new developments in computer science, and mathematical modeling and problem solving. The activities will advance discovery while promoting training and learning in key policy issues including climate change, ecological change, and ecosystem restoration. The REU Site will recruit and train underrepresented minorities, enhance infrastructure and programs at the Andrews Forest LTER and OSU Wave Lab, and disseminate management and policy implications to USFS partners. The Site will also serve as a national model for transforming the education of undergraduates to embrace Ecosystem Informatics (EI) as both a set of tools and a mindset for approaching and solving natural resources problems in an interdisciplinary context.