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

查普曼大学（Chapman University）施密德科技学院（Schmid College of Science and Technology）的这个夏季项目每年将提供10-11名专门从两年制社区学院（特别关注代表性不足的少数民族、女性和低收入学生）中挑选出来的学生，让他们有机会参与跨学科地球和环境主题的研究，从矿物表面相互作用到湿地生态系统，再到极端的全球天气事件。让缺乏服务的学生参与到这个REU-Site项目中，有望培养出更加多样化的具有科学素养的公民群体，以应对当前和未来的科学挑战。可衡量的结果包括社区大学生通过转到四年制院校的科学专业并毕业而继续致力于STEM专业的人数，REU学生对研究过程、研究伦理、研究对当地和全球社区的贡献价值的理解增加，以及进入研究生课程或从事科学职业的REU- site参与者的数量。查普曼大学的校园资源和当地社区组织将提供专业发展研讨会，在每周一次的科学职业和实习演讲研讨会上发表演讲，并为参与者提供成为有效和有道德的科学研究人员所需的技能。南加州是一个高度发达的城市化地区，拥有丰富的自然资源，导致了广泛的地球和环境挑战和问题。解决这些复杂的问题需要一支跨学科和受过良好教育的科学家队伍。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，包括污染物的转化途径、对潮间带生态系统的环境影响、气候变化对极端天气相关事件的影响以及湿地的碳封存。这些互动将为通常服务不足的学生群体提供宝贵的跨学科研究经验，并推动主要研究者的学术研究向前发展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This summer REU-Site program in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University will annually provide 10-11 students selected exclusively from 2-year community colleges (focusing specifically on under-represented minorities, women, and low-income students) with the opportunity to engage in research on interdisciplinary earth and environmental topics ranging from mineral-surface interactions to wetland ecosystems to extreme global weather events. Engaging under-served students in this REU-Site program is expected to create a more diverse population of science-literate citizens to address current and future scientific challenges. Measurable outcomes include the number of community college students remaining committed to STEM majors by transferring to and graduating as science majors from 4-year institutions, REU students' increased understanding of the research process, research ethics, and the value of research contributions to local and global communities, and the number of REU-Site participants who enter graduate programs or careers in the sciences. Chapman University campus resources and local community organizations will provide professional development workshops, give presentations at a weekly speaker symposium on scientific careers and internships, and prepare participants with the skills needed to be effective and ethical science researchers.Southern California is a highly developed urbanized area with considerable natural resources, resulting in a wide range of earth and environmental challenges and problems. Addressing these complex issues requires an interdisciplinary and educated workforce of scientists. 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 transformation pathways of pollutants, environmental impacts on intertidal ecosystems, effects of climate change on extreme weather-related events, and carbon sequestration in wetlands. These interactions will both provide valuable interdisciplinary research experiences to a typically underserved student population and drive the principal investigators' scholarly research forward.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.