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

这个REU试点项目将有助于利用团队科学方法，对沿海地区环境与社会之间的相互作用进行跨学科、系统级的理解。 该项目将在东卡罗莱纳大学，克莱姆森大学和阿雷西博的波多黎各大学举办REU学生调查和记录人类行动如何积极或消极地影响沿海地区在极端天气事件，海平面上升和人口增长面前的恢复力。 该项目包括团队科学的重要培训元素，将使学生能够有效地解决跨学科工作和研究生研究环境中的问题，建立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。 该REU的团队科学重点是学生研究人员之间的远程协作。 因此，项目中强调的专业发展活动和使用虚拟协作工具来支持团队科学也将使学生跨越地理和文化界限。 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，包括当前大流行病等情况，其中隔离是由于健康问题，而不仅仅是地理或文化因素。 学生将通过PR-LSAMP以及与HBCU和2年制学院的合作伙伴关系从整个波多黎各和波多黎各的大学招募，以达到具有不同人口背景和有限的研究机会的广泛人群。 REU学生将在一系列跨学科领域开展研究项目，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与其他学科之间的依赖关系如何影响社会。团队科学和虚拟化的合作努力将使REU参与者参与（1）在REU之前的春季在线队列建设和筹备活动，（2）为期一周的密集训练营，以及（3）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，使学生能够克服地理和文化障碍的合作，从而为他们提供一套独特的技能，追求全球变化研究作为一个有效的跨学科团队成员。 该项目将以学生研讨会结束，区域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。

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.