REU Site: Ocean Coastal Zone Sustainability through University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies

南加州大学的瑞格利环境科学研究所将主办一个本科生研究体验(REU)网站，该网站将在三年内每年夏天为八名学生提供为期十周的积极学习体验。学生们将在暑假开始时在洛杉矶的南加州大学园区(UPC)花几天时间进行迎新、培训和项目开发，然后将转移到卡塔琳娜岛的南加州大学箭牌海洋科学中心(WMSC)，在那里他们将与教职员工、其他学生和工作人员合作开展暑期研究项目。然后，他们将在暑期结束时返回UPC校园，参加一个联合本科生研究研讨会。除了研究培训外，学生还将参加有针对性的专业发展，包括科学传播、研究道德、研究生院和工作申请过程以及海洋科学网络方面的培训。学生还将有机会在南加州大学箭牌研究所在卡塔利纳岛为其他本科生、高中生和普通公众举办的大型外展活动中发挥领导作用。WMSC REU网站将在三年内为总共24名本科生提供实习机会。该项目在全国范围内寻找申请者，并寻求吸引来自研究机会有限的学校的学生。提供的大部分资金用于支付学生津贴、住房和参加该项目的旅费。WMSC的REU学生的潜在研究项目范围非常不同，一般侧重于陆地-海洋界面的海洋环境。以前的REU项目集中在生物生物学、海洋生态学、生物地球化学循环、海洋微生物生态学、入侵物种生物学、渔业种群生态学、微量元素化学、土地利用影响、捕食者/猎物研究、种群遗传学、环境污染和生物毒性。通过这些类型的研究经验和特定的技能培训课程，学生将对陆地和沿海海洋过程之间的相互作用有一个了解。该项目支持培养下一代科学家和科学工作者的国家目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The University of Southern California's Wrigley Institute of Environmental Science will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site that will provide eight students with a ten-week active learning experience each summer for three years. Students will spend several days at the start of the summer at the USC University Park Campus (UPC) in Los Angeles for orientation, training and project development, then will move to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center (WMSC) on Catalina Island where they will conduct a summer research project in collaboration with faculty, other students and staff. They will then return to the UPC campus at the end of the summer to participate in a joint undergraduate research symposium. In addition to research training, students will participate in targeted professional development including training in science communication, research ethics, the graduate school and job application process, and networking in the marine sciences. Students will also have opportunities to take on leadership roles in large-scale outreach activities for other undergraduates, high school students, and the general public conducted by the USC Wrigley Institute on Catalina Island.The WMSC REU Site will provide a total of twenty-four undergraduates with internships over the three-year period. The program conducts a national search for applicants and seeks to engage students who are from schools with limited research opportunities. Most of the funding provided supports student stipends, housing and travel to attend the program. The range of potential research projects for REU students at WMSC is highly varied with a general focus on ocean environments at the land-ocean interface. Prior REU projects have been centered around organismal biology, marine ecology, biogeochemical cycling, marine microbial ecology, biology of invasive species, fisheries population ecology, trace element chemistry, land use impacts, predator/prey studies, population genetics, environmental contamination, and organism toxicity. Through these types of research experiences paired with specific skills training sessions, students will gain an understanding of interactions between land and coastal oceans processes. This project supports national goals of developing the next generation of scientists and the scientific workforce.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.