REU Site: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research in the Marine Sciences for First-Year Students

北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校（UNCW）将举办一个本科生研究经历（REU）网站，为期三个夏天。在为期三年的时间里，该计划将在为期十周的实习期间吸引总共三十名一年级本科生进行海洋科学研究经验。该项目的研究导师将从UNCW的生物与海洋生物系、化学与生物化学系、地球与海洋科学系、环境科学系和物理与物理海洋学系中挑选。专业发展将由本科研究和奖学金支持中心（CSURF）、沃森教育学院以及与DC处女座K-8实验室学校的合作伙伴关系，以及通过应用学习体验变革教育（ETEAL）提供。招收有意主修生物化学、生物学、化学、环境科学、地质学、海洋生物学、海洋学、物理学或相关专业的学生，包括退伍军人、社区学院和少数民族院校的学生。REU最初的研究重点将围绕海洋科学的两个相互关联的领域：1)海水养殖和2)开普菲尔河河口的水质和污染物。这些主题领域与许多教师研究项目有关，并将鼓励学生开发至少跨越两个学科的项目。在海水养殖研究重点内，学生项目可以与各种正在进行的研究相结合，如贝类养殖；潜在新食物来源的营养评估；水质分析和缓解措施；替代实践经济学；在野外条件下可能限制或增强某些品种的物理条件（流量、盐度等）；海水养殖对生态系统的影响；用于海水养殖的物种生物学，以及农场设计的空间分析。作为对开普菲尔河水质和污染物的关注的一部分，学生将有机会参与正在进行的与大型河口的使用，管理和生态稳定性相关的教师研究，包括与化学，生物学，地球科学，环境科学，经济学和政策相关的项目。项目将集中在四个领域：污染物动态和有关河口过程；对渔业、海水养殖、生境的影响；与气候变化的管理/政策和潜在影响相衔接；海洋生物技术可能与这些问题有关。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 University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site for three summers. Over the three-year period, the program will engage a total of thirty first-year undergraduates in marine science research experiences during a ten week internship. Research mentors for this program will be drawn from UNCW’s Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences and Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography. Professional development will be offered by the Center for the Support of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CSURF), the Watson College of Education and a partnership with the DC Virgo K-8 Lab School, and Experiencing Transformative Education through Applied Learning (ETEAL). Student recruitment will engage students who intend to major in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, environmental science, geology, marine biology, oceanography, physics or closely related fields, including students who are veterans and who are from community colleges and minority-serving colleges and universities. Initial research focus areas for the REU will center around two interrelated areas of marine science: 1) Mariculture and 2) Water Quality and Contaminants in the Cape Fear River estuary. These topic areas are related to a number of faculty research programs and will allow encouragement of students to develop projects that cross at least two disciplines. Within the Mariculture research focus, student projects can integrate with a wide variety of ongoing studies, such as breeding of shellfish; nutritive assessment of potential new food sources; water quality analyses and mitigation; economics of alternative practices; physical conditions (flow, salinity; other) that may constrain or enhance certain varieties under field conditions; ecosystem impacts of mariculture practices; biology of species used in mariculture, and spatial analysis of farm design. As part of the focus on Water Quality and Contaminants in the Cape Fear River, students will have the opportunity to participate in ongoing faculty research related to the use, management and ecological stability of a large estuary, including projects related to chemistry, biology, earth sciences, environmental sciences, economics, and policy. Projects will be clustered among four areas: dynamics of contaminants and relevant estuarine processes; impacts on fisheries, mariculture, habitats; interface with management / policy and potential influence of climate change; and marine biotechnology as it may relate to these questions.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.