Collaborative Research: REU Site: Svalbard REU: Holocene and Modern Climate Change in the Norwegian High Arctic

自2003年以来，pi一直在斯瓦尔巴群岛管理一个REU站点，为有动力的地球科学本科生提供服务，直接让他们参与重要的气候变化研究，并让他们接触到进行高纬度研究的挑战和回报。根据计划的成功，将提供资金让斯瓦尔巴REU计划再持续一年。学生的研究重点是在快速变化的冰川、湖泊和峡湾系统中运行的气候和地表过程，这些过程反过来又可能记录北极高海拔地区人为变化的特征。学生在整个课程中定义他们的研究问题并设计具体的可测试的假设，在下一学年在他们的家乡机构完成他们的研究项目，并在专业会议上展示他们的成果。该项目的大多数校友都进入了研究生课程，为基础研究做了更好的准备。

Since 2003, the PIs have been administering an REU site in the Svalbard archipelago for motivated geoscience undergraduate students, directly involving them in important climate change research and exposing them to the challenges and rewards of conducting high latitude research. Funds are provided to continue the Svalbard REU program for another year, based on the success of the program. Student research focuses on the climatic and surficial processes that operate in rapidly changing glacial, lacustrine, and fjord systems that may, in turn, archive the signature of anthropogenic changes in the high Arctic. Students define their research questions and design specific testable hypotheses throughout the program, complete their research projects at their home institutions during the following academic year and present their results at a professional conference. Most alumni of the program have gone into graduate programs better prepared for fundamental research.