Travel Proposal: Providing IRIS undergraduate interns with a 2018 AGU Fall Meeting experience

这项旅行计划要求支持16名即将完成暑期研究的学生参加2018年华盛顿特区秋季AGU的这一顶点体验。申请的资金将用于支付学生参加会议的往返旅费、住宿费、伙食费、会议注册费和抽象费用。通过严格的申请程序，这些学生从70多名符合实习最低标准的申请人中被选中参加IRIS REU项目。实习模式的基本要素包括：a)实习生学习地震基础知识，并通过分享经验建立团队；b)网络基础设施，在促进同侪学习和协作的同时，培养团队凝聚力；c)通过精心组织的研究经验过渡到独立研究；d)专家教师指导；e)展示研究成果，重新面对面联系，并融入校友网络（本旅行建议）；f)校友导师提供经验丰富的；在整个过程中始终如一的支持，以及g)共同的科学重点，强调地震数据的获取和分析，以帮助解决更广泛的地球科学问题。联合地震学研究机构（IRIS）本科实习项目已进入第20个年头，对学生的职业发展和增加地球科学领域的多样性产生了重大影响。该项目开创了一种分布式的REU（本科生研究经验）模式，将学生联系成一个群体，并通过互联网和校友导师进行虚拟互动，以保持凝聚力，尽管学生在地理上分散的地点进行研究。这次经历的高潮是在秋季美国地球物理联合会（AGU）会议上，学生们再次聚集在一起，与实习校友和其他地震学家见面，并展示他们的研究成果。这项旅行计划不仅将通过支持实习生传播他们的研究来发展地震知识，而且这种独特的REU模式有机会为远程学习、社区建设和元认知相关技能的实施等方面的虚拟交互应用的知识体系做出贡献。这种模式的成功、记录和传播也将使其他组织能够将地理分布的资源用于发展其人力资本。此外，这一建议为扩大代表性不足的群体在地震学研究中的参与提供了机会。IRIS继续与少数族裔服务机构和专业组织密切合作，以提高人们对地震学研究作为潜在职业道路的认识。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 travel proposal requests support for 16 students who will have completed their summer research to take part in this capstone experience at the 2018 Fall AGU in Washington, DC. The requested funds will support roundtrip travel to the meeting, lodging, food, and meeting registration and abstract fees for the students. These students were selected to take part in the IRIS REU program through a rigorous application process, from a pool of over 70 applicants who met the minimum criteria for the internship. The fundamental elements of the internship model include: a) an orientation where interns learn seismological basics and build the cohort through shared experiences, b) cyberinfrastructure to nourish group cohesion while enabling peer-learning and collaboration, c) a transition to independent research through a carefully structured research experience, d) expert faculty mentoring, e) presentation of research results, reconnecting face-to-face, and integration into the alumni network (this travel proposal), f) an Alumni Mentor to provide experienced, consistent support throughout the entire process, and g) a common scientific focus emphasizing the acquisition and analysis of seismic data to help address broader Earth science questions. Now in its twentieth year, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Undergraduate Internship Program has had a significant impact on students' career development and increasing diversity in the geosciences. This program has pioneered a distributed REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) model that bonds students into a cohort, and uses virtual interactions via the Internet and an alumni mentor to maintain cohesion despite students conducting research at geographically distributed sites. The capstone of the experience is to bring the students together again at the Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting to meet intern alumni and other seismologists, and to present their research. Not only will this travel proposal develop seismological knowledge by supporting interns to disseminate their research, this unique REU model has the opportunity to contribute to the growing body of knowledge regarding the application of virtual interactions for distance learning, community building, and the implementation of the skills associated with metacognition (awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes). The success, documentation and dissemination of this model, will also enable other organizations to apply geographically distributed resources to the development of their human capital. Additionally, this proposal presents an opportunity to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in the study of seismology. IRIS continues to work closely with minority serving institutions and professional organizations to raise awareness of the study of seismology as a potential career path.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.