REU Site: Field and laboratory studies of coastal marine processes at the Shannon Point Marine Center

REU 站点：香农角海洋中心沿海海洋过程的现场和实验室研究

• 批准号: 2349136
• 负责人: Brian Bingham
• 金额: $ 33.95万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2349136&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Field; laboratory; studies

This award will support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at Western Washington University’s Shannon Point Marine Center (SPMC), which is located in Anacortes, WA. The program will bring eight undergraduates to SPMC each summer for a nine-week research experience. During the three years (2024-2026), the project will provide summer internships for a total of twenty-four students. Students will conduct independent research projects with the guidance of research mentors and will participate in a variety of professional development activities, including workshops on scientific ethics, scientific writing, the graduate school experience and career options, as well as field trips and outreach events. The program conducts a national search for applicants and seeks to engage students who are from community colleges and schools with limited research opportunities. Most of the funding provided supports student stipends, housing and travel to attend the program. This project supports the national goals of developing the next generation of scientists and the scientific workforce.The WWU REU program promotes strong faculty/student relationships tailored to the needs and capabilities of each student while providing group activities that promote student-student interaction, near-peer mentoring, and student access to the entire group of faculty mentors. Each student works with an individual adviser to develop a research project that is independent, relevant, and appropriately focused. The general themeinvolves a process-oriented approach to estuarine dynamics, emphasizing primary and secondary productivity, biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, sediment and nutrient transport at estuarine and boundary-layer scales, ocean acidification, chemical ecology, and marine diseases, topics that articulate well with more traditional studies of invertebrate ecology. With their adviser, each student develops and presents a project plan in a colloquium during the second week, conducts the research under the appropriate level of faculty supervision, and presents oral and written reports at the end of the program. Publication of results and presentation at scientific meetings is strongly encouraged and supported.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.

该奖项将支持位于华盛顿州阿纳科特斯的西华盛顿大学香农角海洋中心 (SPMC) 的本科生研究体验 (REU) 项目，该项目每年夏天将带领八名本科生到 SPMC 进行为期九周的研究体验。在三年（2024-2026）期间，该项目将为总共24名学生提供暑期实习，学生将在研究导师的指导下开展独立的研究项目，并参与各种专业发展。该计划在全国范围内寻找申请人，并寻求吸引来自社区学院和条件有限的学校的学生。提供的大部分资金用于支持学生参加该项目的津贴、住宿和交通费。该项目支持培养下一代科学家和科学劳动力的国家目标。WWU REU 项目促进了针对特定领域的牢固的教师/学生关系。在提供小组活动的同时，考虑每个学生的需求和能力促进学生与学生之间的互动、近同伴指导以及学生与整个教师导师小组的接触，每个学生都与个人顾问一起开发一个独立的、相关的、适当集中的研究项目。以河口动力学为导向的方法，强调初级和次级生产力、生物地球化学、微生物生态学、河口和边界层尺度的沉积物和养分输送、海洋酸化、化学生态学和海洋疾病，主题与更传统的无脊椎动物生态学研究很好地结合在一起，每个学生在第二周的研讨会上制定并提出一个项目计划，在适当水平的教师监督下进行研究，并在会议上提出口头和书面报告。强烈鼓励和支持在科学会议上发表结果和演示。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。