REU Site: Field Research on Bahamian Lakes: Exploring Records of Anthropogenic and Climatic Change

REU 网站：巴哈马湖泊实地研究：探索人为和气候变化的记录

• 批准号: 0851847
• 负责人: Lisa Park Boush
• 金额: $ 48.27万
• 依托单位: University of Akron
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Field; Research; Bahamian

The goal of the Bahamian Lakes REU site is to provide undergraduate students a fieldwork and laboratory opportunity to learn first-hand about Earth as a system and to develop skills in conducting and communicating scientific research through studying modern limnologic systems and the environmental, geochemical, and biological records of change recovered from lake sediment cores. We will target sophomore to junior-level undergraduate geoscience and pre-service teacher participants from urban comprehensive universities in the Great Lakes and mid-continent region. Our regional recruitment will allow us to encourage students of color from urban areas to participate as well as facilitating participants to present their research at a common North-Central section meeting of the Geological Society of America. We anticipate that this REU experience will positively influence participants to complete a baccalaureate degree and pursue graduate work.Understanding the dynamics of human-climate interaction remains one of society's looming unanswered questions. The role of natural climate variability and how it may differ from how humans may have changed their environment and driven localized changes to climate is a leading area of global change research. Our faculty will mentor students in the collection, analyses, and interpretation of data from the modern subtropical lake systems and past records of environmental change from sedimentary cores recovered from lakes in the Bahamas. These data will be compared to stratigraphic, biological, and chemical records derived from archaeologically excavations in order to decipher the footprint of human occupation and how it may have impacted the physical and biological environments. These data will be used to build a deeper understanding of the history and nature of climatic and anthropogenic environmental change through time.The Bahamian Lakes REU site has the potential of increasing both the number of women and under-represented minorities completing gesoscience undergraduate degrees and continuing on to graduate programs. We believe that our international collaboration with the College of the Bahamas and the Bahamian Antiquities, Monuments, and Museums Corporation and the international nature of the fieldwork will provide an unparalleled avenue for cultural enrichment for the students as well as an experience in global cooperation that will be invaluable for a student's future success in an increasingly global workforce and economy.This award is funded by the Division of Earth Sciences and the Office of International Science and Engineering.

巴哈马湖REU网站的目的是为本科生提供野外工作和实验室的机会，可以通过研究现代林木系统以及环境，地球化学和环境，地球，地球研究和传达科学研究的技能。从湖泊沉积物核心回收的变化的生物记录。我们将以二年级学生为目标大二学生，并将来自大湖区和中大陆地区城市综合大学的少年大学地球科学和职前教师参与者。我们的区域招聘将使我们能够鼓励来自城市地区的有色学生参加，并促进参与者在美国地质学会的一个共同的中北部会议上介绍他们的研究。我们预计，这种REU经验将对参与者产生积极的影响，以完成学士学位并从事研究生工作。理解人类气候互动的动态仍然是社会迫在眉睫的未解决的问题之一。自然气候变异性的作用及其与人类可能改变环境以及对气候的局部变化的不同是全球变化研究的领先领域。我们的教职员工将指导学生对现代亚热带湖泊系统的数据收集，分析和解释，以及过去从巴哈马湖中回收的沉积岩心的环境变化记录。这些数据将与从考古发掘中得出的地层，生物学和化学记录进行比较，以解读人类职业的足迹及其如何影响物理和生物学环境。这些数据将用于更深入地了解气候和人为环境的历史和性质。随着时间的流逝，巴哈马湖区的潜力有可能增加妇女的数量和代表性不足的少数群体，从而完成了吉斯科科学的学位，并继续毕业和继续学习。开始研究生课程。我们认为，我们与巴哈马学院以及巴哈马的古物，古迹和博物馆公司的国际合作以及实地考察的国际性质将为学生提供无与伦比的文化丰富途径，以及全球合作的经验这对于学生在日益全球的劳动力和经济中的未来成功是无价的。该奖项由地球科学和国际科学与工程办公室资助。