Collaborative Research: REU Site: Resilience and Adaptation to Coastal Change Across Virtual Communities (C2-Virtual-C)

这一区域生态联盟试点将有助于利用团队科学方法，发展对沿海地区环境与社会之间相互作用的跨学科、系统层面的理解。该项目将接待东卡罗来纳大学、克莱姆森大学和波多黎各大学阿雷西博分校的REU学生，调查和记录面对极端天气事件、海平面上升和人口增长时，人类行动如何积极或消极地影响沿海地区的韧性。该项目包括团队科学的重要培训内容，将使学生做好准备，有效地解决跨学科工作和研究生研究环境中的问题，培养他们向公众传播科学的能力，并从系统的角度解决社会挑战。这个REU的团队科学关注的是学生研究人员之间的远程合作。因此，项目中强调的专业发展活动和支持团队科学的虚拟协作工具的使用也将使学生参与跨越地理和文化界限的工作。这些技能将帮助学生在研究团队成员之间无法直接接触的情况下参与研究，包括目前的大流行，在这种情况下，隔离是出于健康考虑，而不仅仅是地理或文化因素。将通过PR-LSAMP以及与HBCU和2Yr学院的合作，从卡罗莱纳州和波多黎各的大学招收学生，以接触到不同人口背景和有限研究机会的广泛人群。REU的学生将从事一系列跨学科领域的研究项目，以推动环境和社会系统的演变。系统科学概念将整合整个REU的项目，使学生能够识别和理解地球科学和其他学科之间的依赖关系如何影响社会。团队科学和协作工作的虚拟化将使REU参与者参与(1)REU之前春季的在线队列建设和准备活动，(2)为期一周的强化培训训练营，以及(3)为期七周的团队研究，学生在三个主办机构之间分配。专业发展活动的结构将使学生能够克服合作的地理和文化障碍，从而为他们提供作为有效的跨学科团队成员进行全球变化研究的独特技能。该项目将以学生座谈会结束，届时地区利益相关者将参与并观看使用科学传播策略开发的学生研究视频，以吸引公众参与他们的研究。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。

This REU Pilot will contribute to developing an interdisciplinary, systems-level understanding of the interplay between the environment and society in coastal regions using a Team Science approach. The project will host REU students at East Carolina University, Clemson University, and the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo to investigate and document how human actions positively or negatively influence coastal resilience in the face of extreme weather events, sea level rise, and population growth. The project includes important training elements in Team Science that will prepare students to effectively address problems in interdisciplinary work and graduate research settings, build their ability to communicate science to the public, and take a systems perspective on solving societal challenges. The Team Science focus of this REU is on remote collaboration between student researchers. The professional development activities and use of virtual collaboration tools to support Team Science emphasized in the project will therefore also engage students in working across geographic and cultural boundaries. These skills will prepare the students to participate in research when direct contact between research team members is not possible, including situations such as the current pandemic where isolation is due to health concern and not just geographic or cultural factors. Students will be recruited from universities across the Carolinas and Puerto Rico through PR-LSAMP and partnerships with HBCUs and 2yr Colleges to reach a wide population with varying demographic backgrounds and limited access to research opportunities. REU Students will pursue research projects across a range of interdisciplinary areas that drive the evolution of environmental and social systems. Systems science concepts will integrate projects across the REU, enabling students to identify and understand how dependencies between earth science and other disciplines impact society. Team Science and virtualization of collaboration efforts will engage REU participants in (1) online cohort building and preparatory activities over the spring prior to the REU, (2) an intensive week-long training bootcamp, and (3) seven weeks of team-based research where students are divided between the three host institutions. Professional development activities will be structured to enable the students to overcome geographic and cultural barriers to collaboration, thereby providing them a unique skill set to pursue global change research as an effective interdisciplinary team member. The project will conclude with a student Symposium where regional stakeholders will participate and view student research videos developed using science communication strategies to engage the public in their research.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.