REU Site: Field and Laboratory Studies of Coastal Marine Processes at the Shannon Point Marine Center

海洋科学部为位于华盛顿州贝灵汉的西华盛顿大学（WWU）香农角海洋中心的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划提供了新的资金。 该计划将支持8名学生为期九周的实习超过三年（2016-2018）。 每个学生将与一个单独的顾问合作，开发一个独立的，适当集中的研究项目。一般主题集中于本地沿海海洋环境的生物资源和过程，包括初级和次级生产力、生物地球化学、微生物生态学和化学生态学。与他/她的顾问，每个学生在第二周的座谈会上制定并提出项目计划，在适当的教师监督下进行研究，并在课程结束时提出口头和书面报告。SPMC REU的目的是介绍有前途的学生在他们的本科课程的研究，这将允许有关追求研究生教育和科学专业的明智的决定，同时准备他们这样做的一个点。在该计划的早期，学生被介绍给广泛的领域和实验室研究技术，并鼓励他们在自己的工作中使用这些。小组研讨会举行选择和申请研究生院，解决科学伦理问题，掌握数据分析和演示方法，并有效地分享科学。正式的评估提供了一种反馈机制，用于改进计划，并提供了一种评估，记录了计划的结果和长期价值。该计划招募来自美国各地的申请人，特别关注贫困，服务不足和代表性不足的学生，那些参加本科研究机会有限的机构，以及那些目前的位置或以前的经验不允许随时进入海洋环境的人。

The Division of Ocean Sciences provides renewed funding for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site program at the Shannon Point Marine Center, Western Washington University (WWU), located in Bellingham, WA. The program will support 8 students for a nine-week internship over three years (2016-2018). Each student will work with an individual adviser to develop a research project that is independent and appropriately focused. The general theme focuses on living resources and processes of the local coastal marine environment, including primary and secondary productivity, biogeochemistry, microbial ecology and chemical ecology. With his/her adviser, each student develops and presents a project plan in a colloquium setting during the second week, conducts the research under the appropriate level of faculty supervision, and presents oral and written reports at the conclusion of the program. Publication of results and presentation at scientific meetings is strongly encouraged and supported.The purpose of the SPMC REU is to introduce promising students to research at a point in their undergraduate programs that will permit informed decisions regarding pursuit of graduate education and scientific professions while preparing them to do so. Early in the program, students are introduced to the broad array of field and laboratory research techniques and are encouraged to use these in their own work. Group workshops are held on selecting and applying to graduate school, addressing issues of ethics in science, mastering data analysis and presentation methods, and effectively sharing science. Formal assessments provide both a feedback mechanism used to improve the program and an evaluation that documents outcomes and the longer-term value of the program. The program recruits applicants from around the United States, with special attention to underprivileged, underserved and underrepresented students, to those attending institutions with limited opportunities for undergraduate research, and to those whose current locations or previous experiences have not permitted ready access to marine environments.