IRES: Tropical Ecology Mentorship Program of CSU Dominguez Hills

IRES：科罗拉多州立大学多明格斯山热带生态学导师计划

• 批准号: 1130156
• 负责人: Terrence McGlynn
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: California State University-Dominguez Hills Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1130156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Tropical; Ecology; Mentorship; Program

This three-year International Research Experiences for Students project will provide undergraduate students, graduate students, and K-12 teachers with an international collaborative research experience in a tropical rainforest setting. Under the joint mentorship of Terrence P. McGlynn of the California State University Dominguez Hills and several U.S. and international research partners, participants will spend eight summer weeks investigating contemporary hypotheses in the field of trophic interactions by addressing the transfer of energy and nutrients across trophic levels. Projects will address spatial heterogeneity in resources and the consequences for ecological processes at the community and ecosystem levels. These experiments will take place at La Selva Biological Reserve in Costa Rica, in cooperation with Dr. Deedra McClearn of the Organization for Tropical Studies. In each of the three years the participant cohorts will include at least one graduate student, several undergraduate students, and an inner-city teacher. Each cohort will also be joined by up to two research recruits, talented students from underrepresented groups who are unable to commit for a full summer, but who would benefit from exposure to scientific research. The goal of this activity is to train talented students from underrepresented groups to become field ecologists with experience in international settings. To accomplish this goal the senior investigators will mentor the students in their long-term tropical-field research projects, first during an eight-week session at the tropical rain forest field station. The students will then continue their research at their home institutions in a year-round mentored research experience. Among the broader impacts of this IRES program are the promotion of international research collaborations; the creation of mentorships in the sciences for undergraduates from underrepresented groups; involvement of undergraduates from primarily undergraduate institutions in an active research environment with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty; and extensive field research experiences for minority undergraduates that should help increase the success of these students in graduate programs in the sciences. The project will also further research collaborations between U.S. and Costa Rican scientists and other international researchers pursuing ongoing projects in Costa Rica.

这项为期三年的学生研究经验将为本科生，研究生和K-12老师提供在热带雨林环境中的国际协作研究经验。 在加利福尼亚州立大学多明格斯山（Dominguez Hills）和几个美国和国际研究伙伴的特伦斯·麦格林（Terrence P. 项目将解决资源的空间异质性以及社区和生态系统层面的生态过程的后果。 这些实验将与热带研究组织的Deedra McClearn博士合作，在哥斯达黎加的La Selva生物保护区进行。 在三年中的每一年中，参与者队列都将包括至少一名研究生，几个本科生和一名城市老师。 每个队列还将与最多两名研究新兵，来自代表性不足的团体的才华横溢的学生一起加入，他们无法致力于整个夏天，但他们将受益于科学研究。 这项活动的目的是培训来自代表性不足的团体的才华横溢的学生，成为具有国际环境经验的现场生态学家。为了实现这一目标，高级调查人员将指导学生在他们的长期热带领域研究项目中，首先在热带雨林野外站进行了为期八周的会议。然后，学生将在全年的指导研究经验中继续他们的家庭机构研究。 IRES计划的更广泛影响之一是促进国际研究合作；从代表性不足的群体的本科生的科学中创建指导；与研究生，博士后研究人员和教职员工在活跃的研究环境中主要是本科机构的本科生的参与；以及针对少数族裔大学生的广泛实地研究经验，这些研究应有助于增加这些学生在科学研究生课程中的成功。该项目还将进一步研究美国和哥斯达黎加科学家与其他在哥斯达黎加正在进行的项目的国际研究人员之间的合作。