REU Site: Biological impacts of climate change: testing hypotheses with collections and long-term data

REU 网站：气候变化的生物影响：通过收集和长期数据检验假设

• 批准号: 1157090
• 负责人: Barry Sinervo
• 金额: $ 23.01万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 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: 2012-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1157090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Biological; impacts; climate

A Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Sites award has been made to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to provide research training for eight students for eight weeks during the summers of 2013-2015. Climate change, the overriding environmental issue of our time, causes drastic changes in the distributions and abundances of many species and potentially threatens peoples' ways of life. This REU will train students to use critical tools to understand mechanisms underlying biological responses to climate change, including: 1) physiological/ecological limits of species; 2) changes in species' interactions; and 3) hypothesis testing that enables one to discriminate between climate change and other natural or anthropogenic factors affecting species diversity and geographical distributions. Students will work on a diversity of organisms, systems, and specific questions guided by mentors from UCSC's Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Dept. of Environmental Studies, and several regional organizations. The common threads among projects include 1) testing hypotheses; 2) assembling long-term data sets from museums and faculty research; 3) measuring key physiological/behavioral traits or ecological interactions; 4) predicting changes in species' distributions and/or ecosystems based on future climate scenarios; and 5) conducting field work to ground-truth their predictions. This REU will select and train 24 undergraduates, including many minority students, based on their academic records and research potential. All students will be mentored to help them improve communication skills, discover resources for their education and careers, and recognize and value their own contributions to science. The REU program includes talks, discussions and workshops on methods and concepts key to their projects, and relevant field trips. These students will also join with an existing UCSC undergraduate research program targeting minority students in STEM disciplines for workshops on scientific ethics and communication. Students will be tracked to determine their continued interest in science, career paths, and lasting influences of their REU experience. The program will be assessed by various means, including an REU common assessment tool. More information is available by visiting http://reu.eeb.ucsc.edu/, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Barry Sinervo at [e-mail]) or the co-PI (Dr. Laurel Fox at [e-mail]).

在2013 - 2015年夏季，已向加州大学圣克鲁斯分校（UCSC）颁发了针对本科生（REU）网站奖的研究经验（REU）奖。气候变化是我们这个时代的环境问题，导致许多物种的分布和丰富性发生了巨大变化，并可能威胁到人们的生活方式。该REU将训练学生使用关键工具来了解对气候变化的生物学反应的基础机制，包括：1）物种的生理/生态限制； 2）物种相互作用的变化； 3）假设测试可以区分气候变化以及影响物种多样性和地理分布的其他自然或人为因素。学生将研究由UCSC生态和进化生物学系的导师以及环境研究部以及几个地区组织的导师指导的各种生物，系统和特定问题。项目之间的共同点包括1）测试假设； 2）从博物馆和教师研究中组装长期数据集； 3）测量关键的生理/行为特征或生态相互作用； 4）根据未来的气候场景预测物种分布和/或生态系统的变化； 5）进行现场工作以实现其预测。此REU将根据他们的学术记录和研究潜力来选择和培训24名本科生，包括许多少数学生。所有学生都将受到指导，以帮助他们提高沟通能力，发现教育和职业的资源，并认识并重视自己对科学的贡献。 REU计划包括有关其项目关键的方法和概念的讨论，讨论和讲习班以及相关的实地考察。这些学生还将与现有的UCSC大学本科研究计划一起，针对STEM学科的少数族裔学生，以进行科学道德和交流讲习班。将跟踪学生，以确定他们对科学，职业道路和REU经验的持久影响的持续兴趣。该计划将通过各种方式进行评估，包括REU共同评估工具。可以通过访问http://reu.eeb.ucsc.edu/获得更多信息，或通过与PI联系（通过[e-mail]）或Co-Pi（laurel fox博士[e-mail]）与PI联系（Barry Sinervo博士）。