REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Earth and Environmental Sciences (SURFEES)

今年夏天，查普曼大学地球与环境科学学院的REU-Site项目将每年从两年制社区学院中挑选10名学生，让他们有机会参与从区域到全球范围内与地球和环境问题相关的研究项目。通过该项目，他们将为服务不足的学生群体提供动手的跨学科研究经验，并加强对代表性不足的学生进入STEM领域的招聘和保留。他们将与多所地方社区大学合作，这些大学服务于不同种族的社区，缺乏科学研究设施。教师导师包括生物学家、化学家和地球科学家，他们在查普曼有活跃的本科生研究实验室。通过与各自学科前沿的教师导师一起参与前沿研究，学生将参与复杂的科学研究，包括污染物的来源，运输和转化途径，对潮间带生物的环境影响以及湿地的碳封存。除了研究外，学生还将参加小组活动，包括经验前培训讲习班、与当地讲者讨论环境职业/问题、研究小组内的每周小组会议/报告、大学生活和学术成功讲习班、研究海报展示会议和经验后评估。

This summer REU-Site program in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Chapman University (Orange, CA) will annually provide 10 students selected exclusively from 2-year community colleges with the opportunity to engage in research projects related to earth and environmental issues from the regional to global scale. Through the program, they will provide an under-served student population with hands-on, interdisciplinary research experiences and enhance the recruitment and retention of under-represented students into STEM fields. They will partner with multiple local community colleges that serve ethnically diverse communities and lack scientific research facilities. Faculty mentors include biologists, chemists, and geoscientists with active undergraduate research labs at Chapman. Through participation in cutting-edge research with faculty mentors working at the forefront of their respective disciplines, students will engage in complex scientific studies on topics including the sources, transport, and transformation pathways of pollutants, environmental impacts on intertidal organisms, and carbon sequestration in wetlands. In addition to research, students will participate in group activities including pre-experience training workshops, seminars with local speakers on environmental careers/issues, weekly group meetings/presentations within their research groups, university life and academic success workshops, a research poster presentation session, and a post-experience evaluation assessment.