REU Site: Pollinators, Climate Change, and the Aegean Archipelago

REU 网站：传粉媒介、气候变化和爱琴海群岛

• 批准号: 1950805
• 负责人: Charlotte Simmons
• 金额: $ 36.45万
• 依托单位: University of Central Oklahoma
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950805&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Pollinators; Climate; Change

The two-month summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program based at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) will engage students in a three-phase, immersive learning experience within an international setting (Lesvos, Greece). Honey bees, native to Greece and throughout Eurasia, will serve as the model study organism for the program. Honey bees pollinate billions of dollars of crops worldwide each year and impact both native and nonnative plants (including agricultural crops) throughout North America. In recent decades, environmental changes have dramatically decreased honey bees numbers in the United States. This decrease is the result of Colony Collapse Disorder as well as global pollinator decline. In addition to pesticides, parasites, and pathogens (all implicated in pollinator decline), climate change contributes to a “perfect storm” of ecosystem alterations that negatively affect pollinators. This program will engage undergraduate students in the examination of the ability of honey bees and other bee species to withstand immediate and long-term effects of temperature change and associated long-term plant community changes using behavioral, physiological, and ecological approaches. Given the economic and environmental implications of pollinator decline, student communication of these findings to both the public and the scientific community is a key objective. Students will be encouraged throughout the program to engage in public outreach using a variety of science communication resources. Arguably the birthplace of the scientific process, Greece provides an opportunity for students to learn scientific principles within a geographic region of great historical significance as well as experience collaborating on global-scale, scientific problems.This REU Site award to the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) will support and train seven students per year for a total of 21 students during the lifetime of the grant. These student participants will be recruited primarily from institutions and backgrounds that would otherwise provide limited opportunities in STEM research. Participants will be selected based upon criteria that include measures of academic performance and an essay as to why participation in the project will be important to the students’ careers. One student, with a background in communication, will be specifically recruited to serve as the lead scientific communicator. This student will use both traditional and social forms of media to disseminate student participation in and the results of the program. The program has three phases, the first of which will include a mini-course at UCO that includes Responsible Conduct in Research and mentorship training. The second phase will consist of a longer period of field and laboratory research in Greece where students will engage in a team-based investigation of one of the best documented plant-pollinator ecosystems in the world. All field research will be conducted on the island of Lesvos in collaboration with Greek scientists from the University of the Aegean at Mytilene. Hypotheses will test predictions about the role of climate change in (1) altering plant-pollinator interactions (using short-term perturbation experiments), (2) pollinator learning capacities (with proven behavioral assays), and (3) the physiological responses of pollinators to temperature change (using measurements of thermal limits). The program will conclude at UCO with student presentations. Post-program analysis will consist of surveys conducted by UCO that assess the program’s research experience impact on participants’ perceptions of their own growth in scientific aptitude and the acquisition of pertinent scientific skill sets (computation, experimental design, etc.). Research findings will inform growing concerns about the impact of climate change on plant-pollinator systems in a model Mediterranean as well as both natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout the USA where honey bees were introduced nearly four centuries ago.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.

俄克拉荷马州中央大学（UCO）的本科生（REU）计划的两个月夏季研究经验将在国际环境中吸引学生三相，沉浸式学习经验（希腊Lesvos）。蜜蜂本地是希腊和整个欧亚大陆，将作为该计划的模型研究组织。蜜蜂每年在全球范围内授粉数十亿美元的农作物，并影响整个北美的本地和非本地植物（包括农作物）。近几十年来，美国的蜜蜂数量大大减少了。这种下降是菌落崩溃障碍以及全球传粉媒介下降的结果。除了农药，寄生虫和病原体（全部暗示在传粉媒介下降）外，气候变化还会导致生态系统改变的“完美风暴”，对授粉媒介产生负面影响。该计划将吸引本科生的研究，以检查蜜蜂和其他蜜蜂物种可以使用行为，生理和生态学方法来承受温度变化以及相关植物社区变化的立即和长期影响的能力。鉴于传粉媒介下降的经济和环境含义，这些发现与公众和科学界的学生交流是一个关键目标。在整个计划中，将鼓励学生使用各种科学沟通资源进行公共宣传。可以说是科学过程的生日，希腊为学生提供了一个机会，可以让学生在历史意义的地理区域内学习科学原理，并在全球规模的科学问题上合作，这是俄克拉荷马州中央大学（UCO）（UCO）的REU网站奖，每年将为七个学生提供支持和培训七名学生，总共有21名学生在赠款的一生中获得21名学生。这些学生参与者将主要来自机构和背景，这些机构和背景将提供有限的STEM研究机会。将根据包括学术绩效的衡量标准和有关为什么参与项目对学生职业至关重要的文章的标准选择参与者。一位具有沟通背景的学生将被专门招募作为主要科学沟通者。该学生将同时使用传统和社会形式的媒体来传播学生的参与以及该计划的结果。该计划有三个阶段，其中第一个阶段将包括UCO的迷你课程，其中包括研究和脑海中的负责任行为。第二阶段将包括在希腊进行的较长时期的现场和实验室研究，其中学生将对世界上最有记录的植物 - 托管生态系统之一进行基于团队的调查。所有现场研究都将在莱斯沃斯岛（Lesvos）与迈特琳（Mytilene）的爱琴海大学的希腊科学家合作进行。假设将测试有关气候变化在（1）改变植物 - 授粉相互作用（使用短期扰动实验），（2）传粉媒介学习能力（具有证实的行为评估）和（3）授粉剂对温度变化的物理反应（使用热限制的测量值）的预测。该计划将在UCO和学生演讲中包括。程序后分析将包括UCO进行的调查，该调查评估了该计划的研究经验对参与者对科学能力的增长的看法以及对相关科学技能集（计算，实验设计等）的获得的看法。研究结果将为人们对气候变化对植物 - 授粉系统的影响以及整个美国的自然和农业生态系统的影响提供越来越多的关注，在那里将近四个世纪前介绍了蜜蜂。这奖反映了NSF的立法任务，并通过使用基金会的智力效果和广泛的评估来诚实地对其进行评估。

项目成果

New records of megachilid bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) for Colombia

哥伦比亚巨蜂科蜜蜂新记录（膜翅目：Megachilidae）

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Revista peruana de biologia
• 影响因子: 0.5
• 作者: Guevara, D.A.;Ospina-Torres, R.;and V.H. Gonzalez
• 通讯作者: and V.H. Gonzalez

The first pacific insular orchid bee (Hymenoptera, Apidae): A new species of Eufriesea from Islas Marias. Journal of Hymenoptera Research

第一种太平洋岛屿兰花蜂（膜翅目，蜜蜂科）：来自玛丽亚斯岛的 Eufriesea 新种。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Hymenoptera research
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: Ayala, R.;Gonzalez, V.H.;and M. S. Engel
• 通讯作者: and M. S. Engel

Effects of aversive conditioning on expression of physiological stress in honey bees (Apis mellifera).

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107363
• 发表时间: 2021-03
• 期刊: Neurobiology of learning and memory
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Black TE;Fofah O;Dinges CW;Ortiz-Alvarado CA;Avalos A;Ortiz-Alvarado Y;Abramson CI
• 通讯作者: Abramson CI

Honey bee flights near hover under ethanol-exposure show changes in body and wing kinematics.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278916
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: PLOS ONE
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Ahmed, Ishriak;Abramson, Charles, I;Faruque, Imraan A.
• 通讯作者: Faruque, Imraan A.

Low Strength Magnetic Fields Serve as a Cue for Foraging Honey Bees but Prior Experience is More Indicative of Choice

• DOI: 10.1002/bem.22285
• 发表时间: 2020-07
• 期刊: Bioelectromagnetics
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: A. Chicas-Mosier;Medhat Radi;Jack Lafferrandre;J. O’Hara;H. Vora;C. Abramson