REU: The HERO REU Site

REU：英雄 REU 网站

• 批准号: 0243772
• 负责人: Brenton Yarnal
• 金额: $ 30.03万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-04-01 至 2006-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0243772&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; HERO; Site

This award provides support for an REU-Site as part of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO). HERO is developing the infrastructure to study and monitor the human causes and consequences of global environmental change in local areas. Local HEROs will select three students from Pennsylvania, from Massachusetts, from Kansas, and from Arizona to participate in the Site. The students will start their summer research activities by taking a two-week short courses that will introduce them to the concepts and tools needed to study the local dimensions of global environmental change. After the short course, the REU students will return to their home states where they will conduct parallel research activities at the local HEROS. The three-person REU student teams will work for six weeks with a faculty research mentor, other faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students working at the local HEROs. Students will be introduced to such tools as geographic information systems, aerial photographs, remote sensing images, and geo-positioning systems. The activities will include the mapping and field checking of: land cover and land use; natural and technological hazards; essential facilities; potentially vulnerable socioeconomic groups, businesses, factories, resource extraction and processing facilities, and other commercial sites; and critical biological habitats. Students will also engage in interviews and focus groups. They will stay linked to their colleagues at the other local HEROs through HERO remote collaboration tools. This award contributes to the Foundation's continuing efforts to attract talented students into careers in science through active undergraduate research experiences.

该奖项为作为人类环境区域观测站项目 (HERO) 一部分的 REU 站点提供支持。 HERO 正在开发基础设施，以研究和监测当地地区全球环境变化的人为原因和后果。当地 HERO 将选择来自宾夕法尼亚州、马萨诸塞州、堪萨斯州和亚利桑那州的三名学生参加该网站。学生们将通过为期两周的短期课程开始他们的夏季研究活动，向他们介绍研究全球环境变化的局部层面所需的概念和工具。短期课程结束后，REU 学生将返回家乡，在当地 HEROS 开展平行研究活动。 REU 的三人学生团队将与教职研究导师、其他教职人员、博士后研究人员以及在当地 HERO 工作的研究生一起工作六周。将向学生介绍地理信息系统、航空照片、遥感图像和地理定位系统等工具。活动将包括以下方面的测绘和实地检查： 土地覆盖和土地利用；自然和技术危害；基本设施；潜在脆弱的社会经济群体、企业、工厂、资源开采和加工设施以及其他商业场所；和重要的生物栖息地。学生还将参与访谈和焦点小组。他们将通过 HERO 远程协作工具与其他当地 HERO 的同事保持联系。该奖项有助于基金会不断努力通过积极的本科生研究经验吸引有才华的学生进入科学领域。