Collaborative Research: REU Site: Past and Present Human-Environment Dynamics

合作研究：REU 站点：过去和现在的人类环境动态

• 批准号: 1852441
• 负责人: David Braun
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: George Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852441&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; REU; Site; Past; Collaborative; Research; REU; Site; Past

The project is jointly funded by the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program. It has both scientific and societal benefits and integrates research with education. The collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates: Past, Present and Human-Environment Dynamics program builds on the success of the Koobi Fora Research and Training Program (KFRTP) and will develop a new framework for integrated training and research in anthropology, archaeology, geology, human biology and ethnoarchaeology. Humans have been interacting with changing environments for thousands of years. For communities that live in remote and resource poor ecosystems, environmental changes present life-threatening challenges. Changes in subsistence practices in the past have allowed humans to adapt to environmental changes. These subsistence changes have also had a dramatic impact on the ecosystems that humans lived in with consequences for the health of communities that live in remote habitats. This project will train 3 cohorts of 8 students from diverse backgrounds (including in service teachers) that will learn a variety of transferable STEM skills to investigate the intersection of human behavior and environmental change. Multiple mentorship contexts will allow students to learn skills in a supportive and collaborative environment. This project will focus on student support and the development of cohorts who will investigate critical components of the interaction of humans and their environments. Each student will: 1) generate new knowledge by designing and conducting an original research project with leading international human biologists and archaeologists, 2) collect and analyze data using state-of-the-art methods, 3) synthesize and present the findings at follow-up workshops and professional development seminars in the U.S., and 4) engage in training on the public understanding of science with outreach coordinators at the American Museum of Natural History (New York). This REU project will recruit at least 24 US-undergraduate students nationwide- focusing on students underrepresented in STEM fields. A portion of our students will be involved in a Research Experience for Teachers and use this experience to develop school curricula. Our project will focus the interaction between humans and shifting ecosystem dynamics in the past and present. Specifically, we will investigate the following questions: How do present and past populations react to changing ecological pressures? 2)What was the impact of different subsistence strategies on the ecosystem? 3) How do current communities interact with their environment to meet their water and food needs and what are the impacts of this on nutritional status, hydration status, and health outcomes? 4) How have different populations used shifting patterns of mobility and land use to address these ecological and subsistence challenges? Investigating these questions will form the basis of interdisciplinary training. Trainees will gain a series of widely applicable skills as they gain a holistic perspective on the interface between changing environmental parameters and human adaptations in a tropical arid region. Student research will be incorporated into ongoing public outreach and youth initiative programs at the AMNH. The associated RET component will help develop learning modules for K-12 students that emphasize the time transgressive nature of behavioral and biological adaptations to rapidly changing habitats. This project will help document the health and water issues of ~12,000 community members who are currently under-served and present results to county and national level organizations. This project will provide undergraduate students with a unique, holistic training opportunity on a collaborative field research project.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.

该项目由本科生（REU）网站计划的研究经验共同资助。它具有科学和社会利益，并将研究与教育相结合。本科生的合作研究经验：过去，现在和人类环境动态计划以Koobi Fora研究与培训计划（KFRTP）的成功为基础，并将为人类学，考古学，地理学，人类生物学和EthnoArchaeology开发一个新的框架，用于人类学，考古学，地理学，地理学，人类学，人工学和Ethnoarchaeology。人类已经与不断变化的环境互动了数千年。对于生活在偏远和资源贫困生态系统中的社区，环境变化会带来威胁生命的挑战。过去的生存实践的变化使人类适应了环境变化。这些生计的变化也对人类生活的生态系统产生了巨大影响，并对居住在偏远栖息地的社区的健康产生后果。该项目将培训来自来自不同背景的8名学生（包括在服务教师）中的3个队列，这些学生将学习各种可转移的STEM技能，以研究人类行为与环境变化的交集。多种指导环境将使学生能够在支持性和协作的环境中学习技能。该项目将集中于学生的支持和同伙的发展，他们将研究人类及其环境相互作用的关键组成部分。每个学生将：1）通过与领先的国际人类生物学家和考古学家设计和进行原始研究项目来产生新知识，2）使用最先进的方法收集和分析数据，3）在美国的后续研讨会和专业发展研讨会上合成并介绍了这些发现，以及美国的专业发展研讨会，以及4）与公众了解科学培训，与utreach协会的公共认识培训了美国自然博物馆的历史（纽约纽约州的新约克）。这个REU项目将在全国范围内至少招募24名美国跨大学学生，重点关注STEM领域的学生。我们的一部分学生将参与教师的研究经验，并利用这种经验来开发学校课程。我们的项目将集中于过去和现在转移生态系统动态之间的相互作用。具体来说，我们将调查以下问题：现在和过去的人群如何应对不断变化的生态压力？ 2）不同的生存策略对生态系统有什么影响？ 3）当前社区如何与环境互动以满足他们的水和食物需求，并且这种对营养状况，水合作用状况和健康结果有什么影响？ 4）不同人群如何使用移动性和土地用途的转移模式来应对这些生态和生存挑战？调查这些问题将构成跨学科培训的基础。学员将获得一系列广泛适用的技能，因为他们对不断变化的环境参数与热带干旱地区的人类适应性之间的界面有整体视角。学生研究将纳入AMNH正在进行的公共宣传和青年计划计划中。相关的RET组件将有助于为K-12学生开发学习模块，这些学生强调行为和生物学适应迅速变化的栖息地的时间侵犯性质。该项目将有助于记录约12,000名社区成员的健康和水问题，这些社区成员目前服务不足并向县和国家一级组织呈现结果。该项目将为本科生提供在协作实地研究项目上的独特，全面的培训机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估标准通过评估来支持的。