REU Site: IRIS Undergraduate Summer Research in Seismology

该项目的主要目标是鼓励更多的学生，代表更多样化的人口，选择地球科学的职业。地震学联合研究机构（IRIS）是一个由120多所研究型大学和机构组成的联盟，致力于通过收集和分发地震数据来监测地球和探索地球内部。IRIS将通过每年提供至少10名本科生的研究经验，作为9至11周实习计划的一部分，来实现这一目标。参与者将参加为期一周的密集预备课程，这将有助于在队列中建立支持系统。然后，学生们将在实验室和实地环境中与地震学领域的领导者一起进行研究。该项目旨在为参与者提供来自他们的研究导师和项目校友导师的密切指导，不仅指导他们的科学研究，还促进他们自己的个人成长、技能发展和科学认同。整个暑假，学生们完成每周的作业，设计和排序，使生产一套工作产品，这将成为展示他们的成果的基础，提供机会，反思他们的工作和巩固学习成果，并允许他们从以前的参与者的经验中受益。每个学生的实习经历的高潮是有机会参加一个专业会议，并展示他们的暑期研究成果。这样的经历为研究项目画上了句号，为本科生实习生提供了一个与新的同行社区分享经验和专业知识的机会，并为地球科学研究的全方位提供了有意义的接触，作为一个可行的职业选择。该项目的主要工作是在地震研究领域提供本科生研究机会（URO）。然而，该提案还寻求提高科学界对uro对本科生的短期和长期影响的理解和能力，因为他们考虑和追求地球科学领域的职业。通过这个项目，我们将针对URO的三个方面，从认知学徒的角度来看，这些方面有能力影响学生的成绩。首先，我们寻求开发和试行一套课程，以促进更具包容性的地球科学文化的发展，抵制各种形式的骚扰和歧视。接下来，我们寻求为地震学社区的导师开发资源，以成功评估本科生的研究技能，并使用这些评估来指导本科生。最后，我们寻求开发资源和程序，使本科生能够发展和拥抱自己的科学身份。测量URO对学生的影响和开发资源的有效性的数据将通过调查、半结构化访谈、专业和学术工件（例如摘要、论文、技术报告、演示）从导师和学员中收集。该项目还将与其他REU站点合作收集类似的数据，特别是在测量URO资源的有效性时。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。

The primary goal of this project is to encourage more students, representing a more diverse population, to choose careers in Earth science. The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), a consortium of over 120 research universities and institutions dedicated to monitoring the Earth and exploring its interior through the collection and distribution of seismological data, will accomplish this by providing at least 10 undergraduate students per year with research experiences as part of a 9 to 11-week internship program. Participants will attend an intensive week-long preparatory course that will help build a support system amongst the cohort. Then the students will work with leaders in the seismological community, in both lab-base and field-based settings, to conduct research. The program is designed to provide participants with close mentoring from their research mentor and the program's alumni mentor to guide not only their scientific research, but also to enable their own personal growth, skill development, and scientific identity. Throughout the summer students complete weekly assignments designed and sequenced to enable the production of a suite of work products that will become the foundation for presenting their results, provide opportunities to reflect on their work and solidify learning gains, and allow them to benefit from experiences of prior participants. The culmination of each student's internship experience is the opportunity to attend a professional conference and present the results of their summer research. Such experiences bring closure to the research project, offers undergraduate student interns an opportunity to share their experience and expertise with their new peer community, and provides meaningful exposure to the full spectrum of Earth science research as a viable career option. The primary work of this project will be to provide undergraduate research opportunities (URO) within the field of seismological research. However, this proposal also seeks to improve the scientific communities understanding of and ability to improve both the short and long-term impacts of UROs on undergraduates as they consider and pursue careers within the geosciences. Through this project we will target three aspects of a URO that, when viewed through the lens of a cognitive apprenticeship, have the ability to influence student outcomes. First, we seek to develop and pilot a curriculum that contributes towards the development of a more inclusive geoscience culture that is resistant to all forms of harassment and discrimination. Next, we seek to develop resources for mentors in the seismology community to successfully assess undergraduates research skills and use these assessments to mentor undergraduates. Finally, we seek to develop resources and programing to enable undergraduates to develop and embrace their own science identity. Data to both measure the impact of the URO on students and efficacy of the resources developed will be collected from both mentors and mentees through surveys, semi-structured interviews, and professional and academic artifacts (e.g. abstracts, papers, technical reports, presentations). The program will also work collaboratively with other REU sites to collect similar data, especially when measuring the efficacy of URO resources.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.