REU Site: The influence of climate change on biogeochemical processes in northern ecosystems: An international perspective in Earth System Science

REU 网站：气候变化对北方生态系统生物地球化学过程的影响：地球系统科学的国际视角

• 批准号: 1063037
• 负责人: Ruth Varner
• 金额: $ 59.3万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1063037&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; influence; climate; change

This REU program will focus on providing student research experiences in Earth System Science (ESS), with special emphasis on investigating the impacts of climate change on biogeochemical processes in northern upland and wetland ecosystems. In this multifaceted program, we will bring students for the first four weeks to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to provide them with background knowledge of ESS and biogeochemistry and to train them in laboratory and field techniques. During that time they will work with a research mentor to develop research questions they will then explore during the second part of the program in the permafrost region of Northern Sweden. The participants will spend the second four weeks at the Abisko Scientific Research Station (ANS), Sweden. ANS is one of the few locations where it is well documented that climate warming is affecting the geochemical, hydrological and biological cycles. At ANS, the REU students will be fully integrated into an international scientific community as they collect samples and data to support their research projects. For the final two weeks of their REU program, the students will return to UNH to analyze their data, complete any requisite additional analyses, summarize their findings and present their research to their peers and mentors, and prepare to submit their research for presentation at an international scientific meeting. This REU program will promote teaching, training and learning through the research process. The UNH-Abisko REU in Earth System Science extends these goals to provide students a systems perspective that emphasizes how aspects of the Earth system are impacted by climate change. This program will enhance the education of the next generation of scientists by giving them a foundation in interdisciplinary collaboration, an essential key in addressing emerging global environmental and energy policy issues. REU participants will also gain experience in communicating their scientific findings with an audience of non-specialists via coordinated visits with policy and education experts. In addition to student training, this ESS REU program provides integrative cross-disciplinary scientific activities and enhances the collaborative links between UNH and a world-class field site.

该REU计划将着重于提供地球系统科学（ESS）的学生研究经验，特别是研究气候变化对北高地和湿地生态系统生物地球化学过程的影响。在这个多方面的计划中，我们将在头四个星期内将学生带到新罕布什尔大学（UNH），以向他们提供ESS和生物地球化学的背景知识，并在实验室和现场技术中培训他们。在此期间，他们将与研究导师合作，开发研究问题，然后在瑞典北部永久冻土地区的第二部分中探索他们。参与者将在瑞典的阿比斯科科学研究站（ANS）度过第二个星期。 ANS是少数几个有充分记录的地方，即气候变暖正在影响地球化学，水文和生物周期。在ANS，REU学生将在收集样本和数据以支持其研究项目时完全融入国际科学界。在其REU计划的最后两个星期，学生将返回UNH分析他们的数据，完成任何必要的其他分析，总结他们的发现并将其研究介绍给同龄人和导师，并准备在国际科学会议上提交研究以进行演讲。 该REU计划将通过研究过程促进教学，培训和学习。地球系统科学中的Unh-Abisko REU扩展了这些目标，为学生提供了一个系统的观点，该观点强调了地球系统的各个方面如何受到气候变化的影响。该计划将通过为他们奠定跨学科合作的基础来增强下一代科学家的教育，这是解决新兴的全球环境和能源政策问题的重要关键。 REU参与者还将通过与政策和教育专家的协调访问来与非专家的观众传达其科学发现的经验。除了学生培训外，该ESS REU计划还提供综合的跨学科科学活动，并增强UNH与世界一流的现场网站之间的协作联系。