The Keck Geology Consortium: Year-long Collaborative and Comprehensive Research Experiences for Undergraduates

凯克地质联盟，包括18个主要的本科院校，将提供暑期研究经验，为约34名本科生每三年，建立在23年的成功编程涉及1400多名学生。 学生将从18所学校和非联盟机构招募。 暑期研究项目将作为独立研究项目在下一学年继续进行。所有参与的学生将在年度会议记录中发表简短的贡献，并鼓励他们在区域和国家纪律会议上介绍自己的工作。 该联盟每年将为28名大四学生和6名来自地球科学领域代表性不足的大二学生开展5-6个项目。拟议的项目涉及实地和实验室研究经验，将在构造地质学、古生物学和古生态学、古气候学以及火成岩和变质岩石学等领域做出有意义的科学贡献。沉积学和地层学、火山学、地貌学和地质考古学。为期一年的凯克联盟计划提高了学生的科学和地球科学研究技能，并提供了一个强大的科学经验，最终在年度研究研讨会上展示结果，并在会议记录中发表。 联合会鼓励妇女和少数群体充分参与。

The Keck Geology Consortium, comprising 18 primarily undergraduate institutions, will offer summer research experiences for ~34 undergraduates each of three years, building on 23 years of successful programming involving over 1400 students. Students will be recruited from the 18 schools and from non-Consortium institutions. Summer research projects will be continued in the following academic year as independent study projects. All participating students will publish short contributions in the annual proceedings volume and will be encouraged to present their work at regional and national disciplinary meetings. The Consortium will run 5-6 projects per year for 28 undergraduate seniors and one project for 6 sophomore students from underrepresented groups in the Earth Sciences.The proposed projects involve a mix of field and laboratory research experiences that will make meaningful scientific contributions in the areas of structural geology, paleontology and paleoecology, and paleoclimatology as well as igneous and metamorphic petrology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, volcanology, geomorphology and geoarchaeology. The yearlong Keck Consortium program enhances students' scientific and geoscience research skills and provides a robust scientific experience culminating in presentation of results at the annual research symposium and publication in the proceedings volume. The Consortium encourages full participation by women and minority groups.