REU Site: Resilience and Response of Marine Organisms to Environmental Change

该REU网站奖授予位于南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的查尔斯顿学院，将在2018- 2020年夏季为10名学生提供为期10周的培训。研究是在约翰逊堡进行的，就在查尔斯顿市中心的港口对面。约翰逊堡是一个海洋科学校园，拥有学院的格赖斯海洋实验室和四个联邦和州合作机构的研究实验室，这些机构为该计划做出了贡献。该计划侧重于生物，种群，社区和生态系统如何应对海洋环境中的自然或人为变化。学生的项目涉及环境变化、气候变化、沿海开发、物种引进和污染物等问题。除了在实验室或实地从事全职研究外，学生还将参加研讨会、讨论、实地考察和讲习班，以发展科学传播和专业技能。学生将被安置在格赖斯海洋实验室宿舍。特别鼓励来自海洋研究机会有限的学校和代表性不足群体的学生申请。参与者的选择基于潜在的职业利益，每个学生对实习团队的贡献的多样性，以及学术和个人成就的强大潜力。预计总共将有30名学生，主要来自海洋研究机会有限的学校，将接受该计划的培训。学生将学习如何进行研究，不同的科学机构如何制定和解决研究问题，研究生院申请过程如何进行，什么样的科学职业是可用的，以及科学信息如何呈现给公众和专业受众。许多人将通过科学会议和出版物展示他们的工作成果。由生物基础设施部资助的所有REU站点计划使用的通用网络评估工具将用于确定培训计划的有效性。学生将被要求回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件，并且学生的职业道路将在项目结束后被跟踪。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问http://reu.cofc.edu或联系PI （Dr. Robert Podolsky, reu@cofc.edu）。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

This REU Site award to the College of Charleston, located in Charleston, SC, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2018- 2020. Research is conducted at Fort Johnson, located just across the harbor from downtown Charleston. Fort Johnson is a marine science campus that houses the College's Grice Marine Laboratory and research labs from four federal and state partner institutions that contribute to the program. The program focuses on how organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems respond to natural or anthropogenic change in marine environments. Student projects involve issues like environmental variability, climate change, coastal development, species introductions and contaminants. In addition to being engaged in full-time research in the lab or field, students will participate in seminars, discussions, field trips and workshops to develop science communication and professional skills. Students will be housed in the Grice Marine Laboratory dormitory. Students from schools with limited marine research opportunities and from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Participants are selected based on potential career benefits, on the diversity that each student contributes to the intern group, and on evidence of strong potential for academic and personal achievement. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited opportunities in marine research, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how research is conducted, how different scientific institutions formulate and address research questions, how the graduate school application process is carried out, what kinds of scientific careers are available, and how scientific information is presented to public and professional audiences. Many will present the results of their work through scientific conferences and publications.A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU Site programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system, and student career paths will be tracked after the program. More information about the program is available by visiting http://reu.cofc.edu or by contacting the PI (Dr. Robert Podolsky, reu@cofc.edu).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.