REU Site: Ocean Coastal Zone Sustainability through University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies

REU 网站：南加州大学瑞格利环境研究所的海洋沿海地区可持续性

• 批准号: 1263356
• 负责人: Karla Heidelberg
• 金额: $ 27.32万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-15 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263356&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Ocean; Coastal; Zone

This award provides funding for a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Southern California's Wrigley Marine Science Center (WMSC) located on Catalina Island, CA. The proposed 8-week summer internship program will provide laboratory and field-based research expertise to eight undergraduate students from across the nation each summer for three years. The "Sustainability of Coastal Ocean Systems REU" (SCOS-REU) program will provide exposure to multiple activities that provide an integrated context for interdisciplinary undergraduate training related to the sustainability of coastal oceans. The first week of the program will focus on whole-group training, including a short course in marine science and an oceanographic shake-down cruise. Students will then embark on independent research programs with faculty and "near-peer" mentors. Student projects will contribute to larger, funded research programs by their mentors related to understanding of human impacts on environmental systems and be capped with a student research seminar. In addition to independent research, participants will work and learn as a team as they receive training in ecosystem ecology and function, the scientific method, methodological approaches and career and professional development. Periodic field trips to different parts the island and ecosystems will promote group cohesiveness and learning.

该奖项为位于加利福尼亚州卡塔利娜岛的南加州大学箭牌海洋科学中心（WMSC）的本科生（REU）计划的新研究经验提供了资金。拟议的为期8周的暑期实习计划将为全国各地的八名本科生提供实验室和现场研究专业知识，为期三年。 “沿海海洋系统REU的可持续性”（SCOS-REU）计划将提供多种活动，为与沿海海洋的可持续性有关的跨学科本科培训提供综合背景。该计划的第一周将着重于全组培训，包括海洋科学的短期课程和海洋学摇摆巡游。然后，学生将与教职员工和“亲密”导师一起启动独立的研究计划。学生项目将通过其导师与了解人类对环境系统的影响有关的导师为更大的，资助的研究计划做出贡献，并在学生研究研讨会上加以限制。除了独立研究外，参与者还将作为一个团队工作和学习，因为他们接受了生态系统生态学和功能的培训，科学方法，方法论方法，职业和职业发展。周期性的实地考察到该岛和生态系统的不同部分将促进群体的凝聚力和学习。