REU Site: The Summer Systematics Institute: training the next generation of scientists for the field, the lab, and sharing their science with the world

REU 网站：夏季系统学研究所：为该领域、实验室培训下一代科学家，并与世界分享他们的科学成果

• 批准号: 1852276
• 负责人: Lauren Esposito
• 金额: $ 44.24万
• 依托单位: California Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-15 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852276&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Summer; Systematics; Institute

This REU Site award to the California Academy of Sciences, located in San Francisco, CA, will support the training of 10 students for 9 weeks during the summers of 2019? 2021. Research will primarily be conducted at the Academy and at local field sites in Sonoma County, CA. The Academy's Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability is a research hub focused on understanding the natural world and finding solutions to sustaining it. The institution houses world-class natural history research collections, along with modern day technology and genomics tools needed to study these specimens. Participants of the Summer Systematics Institute will begin the summer with fieldwork and immersive workshops, before returning to the Academy to be paired with mentors, who are curators in the Institute, to work on original research projects and attend seminars which provide tools in the field of systematics and phylogenetics. The summer culminates with writing a scientific abstract and a popular science article, and giving an oral presentation to the community in in end-of-program symposium. Students apply through an online application system and will be recruited from universities and community colleges across the country. Applicants identify potential mentors during the application process, and applications are competitively reviewed by advisors who make the final selection of participants. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how biodiversity-focused research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at local symposia and scientific conferences. A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU Site programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information about the program is available by visiting https://www.calacademy.org/summer-systematics-institute, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Lauren Esposito at [e-mail]) or the co-PI (Dr. Rebecca Johnson at [e-mail]).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

REU 授予位于加利福尼亚州旧金山的加州科学院的场地奖励将支持 10 名学生在 2019 年夏季进行为期 9 周的培训？ 2021 年。研究将主要在学院和加利福尼亚州索诺玛县的当地现场进行。该学院的生物多样性科学与可持续发展研究所是一个研究中心，致力于了解自然世界并寻找维持自然世界的解决方案。该机构拥有世界一流的自然历史研究藏品，以及研究这些标本所需的现代技术和基因组学工具。夏季系统学研究所的参与者将以实地考察和沉浸式研讨会开始夏季，然后返回学院与担任研究所策展人的导师配对，开展原创研究项目并参加提供该领域工具的研讨会。系统学和系统发育学。夏季的高潮是撰写科学摘要和科普文章，并在项目结束研讨会上向社区进行口头演示。学生通过在线申请系统进行申请，将从全国各地的大学和社区学院招募。申请人在申请过程中确定潜在的导师，顾问对申请进行竞争性审查，最终选择参与者。预计共有 30 名学生（主要来自研究机会有限的学校）将接受该计划的培训。学生将了解如何进行以生物多样性为重点的研究，许多人将在当地的研讨会和科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。由生物基础设施司资助的所有 REU 站点计划所使用的通用网络评估工具将用于确定培训计划的有效性。项目结束后将对学生进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。学生将被要求回复通过 NSF 报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问 https://www.calacademy.org/summer-systematics-institute，或联系 PI（Lauren Esposito 博士，[e-mail]）或联合 PI（Dr. Rebecca Johnson（丽贝卡·约翰逊，[e-mail]）。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查进行评估，被认为值得支持 标准。