REU Site: The Summer Systematics Institute: training the next generation of scientists for the field, the lab, and sharing their science with the world

该REU Site奖授予加州科学院，位于加利福尼亚州旧金山，将在2019-2021年夏季支持10名学生为期9周的培训。研究将主要在学院和加利福尼亚州索诺马县的当地实地进行。科学院的生物多样性科学与可持续发展研究所是一个研究中心，专注于了解自然世界并找到维持自然世界的解决方案。该机构收藏了世界级的自然历史研究藏品，以及研究这些标本所需的现代技术和基因组学工具。夏季系统学研究所的参与者将以实地考察和身临其境的讲习班开始暑假，然后返回学院，与担任研究所馆长的导师结对开展原创研究项目，并参加提供系统学和系统发生学领域工具的研讨会。暑假的高潮是写一篇科学摘要和一篇科普文章，并在计划结束的研讨会上向社区做口头陈述。学生通过在线申请系统申请，将从全国各地的大学和社区学院招聘。申请者在申请过程中确定潜在的导师，申请者由顾问进行竞争性审查，最终选择参与者。预计共有30名学生将在该计划中接受培训，这些学生主要来自研究机会有限的学校。学生们将学习如何进行以生物多样性为重点的研究，许多学生将在当地的研讨会和科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。将使用生物基础设施司资助的所有REU站点方案使用的通用网络评估工具来确定培训方案的有效性。项目结束后，将对学生进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。学生将被要求回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问https://www.calacademy.org/summer-systematics-institute，或联系国际组织(Lauren Esposito博士，电子邮件：lesposito@calacademy.org)或联合国际组织(丽贝卡·约翰逊博士，电子邮件：rjohnson@calAcademy emy.org)。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智力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 REU Site award to the California Academy of Sciences, located in San Francisco, CA, will support the training of 10 students for 9 weeks during the summers of 2019? 2021. Research will primarily be conducted at the Academy and at local field sites in Sonoma County, CA. The Academy's Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability is a research hub focused on understanding the natural world and finding solutions to sustaining it. The institution houses world-class natural history research collections, along with modern day technology and genomics tools needed to study these specimens. Participants of the Summer Systematics Institute will begin the summer with fieldwork and immersive workshops, before returning to the Academy to be paired with mentors, who are curators in the Institute, to work on original research projects and attend seminars which provide tools in the field of systematics and phylogenetics. The summer culminates with writing a scientific abstract and a popular science article, and giving an oral presentation to the community in in end-of-program symposium. Students apply through an online application system and will be recruited from universities and community colleges across the country. Applicants identify potential mentors during the application process, and applications are competitively reviewed by advisors who make the final selection of participants. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how biodiversity-focused research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at local symposia and scientific conferences. 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 tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information about the program is available by visiting https://www.calacademy.org/summer-systematics-institute, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Lauren Esposito at lesposito@calacademy.org) or the co-PI (Dr. Rebecca Johnson at rjohnson@calacademy.org).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.