REU Site: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Field Research at Mountain Lake Biological Station

该REU Site奖授予弗吉尼亚大学位于弗吉尼亚州贾尔斯县的山湖生物站，将在2015-2019年夏季支持10名学生进行为期10周的培训。该项目支持在实地生态、进化和行为方面进行指导但独立、自我激励的原始生物学研究。学生们全职在生物野外站生活和工作。他们参加研究设计和实施、科学道德和职业行为、写作和演示技术以及科学和学术生活中的其他事项的正式培训。学生准备书面和口头提案和期末报告。参与者包括在外地站丰富、支持、合作和刺激的智力和社会生活中。自1993年以来，山湖大学一直在举办一项NSF REU-SITES项目，预计将有50名学生在该项目中接受培训，这些学生主要来自研究机会有限的学校。学生将学习研究是如何进行的，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。有很高比例的项目校友发表了他们的工作(33%)，并进入了研究生项目(44%)。该计划包括女性(过去几年的比例为72%)、小型学院的学生(39%)以及在科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与者(35%)。该项目与三个外部组织合作：汉普顿大学(HBCU)、波多黎各大学和美国生态学会的种子项目。通过近1000人的个人和组织联系人名单以及合作伙伴预先筛选，在全国范围内招收学生。将使用生物基础设施司(生物科学局)资助的所有REU项目使用的通用网络评估工具来确定培训方案的有效性。学生必须在项目结束后被跟踪，并必须回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://mlbs.org/reuprogram，或联系国际和平组织(Eric Nagy博士，电子邮件：enagy@virginia.edu)或联合国际组织(布奇·布罗迪博士，电子邮件：bbrodie@virginia.edu)。

This REU Site award to University of Virginia's Mountain Lake Biological Station, located in Giles County, Virginia, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2015-2019. The project supports guided but independent, self-motivated original biological research in field-based ecology, evolution, and behavior. Students live and work full-time at the biological field station. They participate in formal training in the design and conduct of research, scientific ethics and professional behavior, writing and presentation techniques, and other matters of scientific and academic life. Students prepare written and oral proposals and final reports. Participants are included in the rich, supportive, collaborative, and stimulating intellectual and social life at the field station. Mountain Lake has hosted a NSF REU-Sites program since 1993.It is anticipated that a total of 50 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. A high proportion of program alumni publish their work (33%) and matriculate in graduate programs (44%). The program includes women (72% in past years), students from small colleges (39%), and participants from groups underrepresented in science (35%). The project partners with three outside groups: Hampton University (HBCU), University of Puerto Rico, and the Ecological Society of America's SEEDS program. Students are recruited nationwide via a nearly 1000-member list of personal and organizational contacts and partner pre-screening. A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure (Directorate for Biological Sciences) will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students are required to be tracked after the program and must respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information is available by visiting http://mlbs.org/reuprogram or by contacting the PI (Dr. Eric Nagy at enagy@virginia.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Butch Brodie at bbrodie@virginia.edu).