Students partipating in this program will:
1. Conduct research under the mentoring of faculty engaged in research in global change ecology,
2. Develop research, collaboration and oral communication skills,
3. Become oriented to various aspects of scientific research via faculty- and graduate-student panels, an on-site research symposium, an ecological issues course and ethics seminars.
Landsat image of Lake Ozawindib, in Itasca State Park.
New REU Site Field Studies in Global Change at the Headwaters of the Mississippi
The Earth is changing rapidly and we need to understand how ecosystems and organisms will be challenged in the future. Global change affects ecological processes at many different scales, from sub-cellular to ecosystems and it is the great breadth of these scales that make understanding processes difficult. This REU site is designed to introduce undergraduate students to research into global change ecology and teach them how to deal with large and/or multiple scales and data sets. We strongly encourage participation from underrepresented groups in order to encourage their interest in global change issues and to broaden ‘the human perspective’ on this rapidly expanding field.
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Students will spend several weeks at the U of MN’s field station at Itasca State Park (location of the headwaters of the Mississippi River)
Students will have access to continuously downloaded climate and limnological data from Lake Itasca and these data, along with other databases, will be used to train students to analyze and interpret large data sets.
For the 10-week program there will be a stipend of $400 per week for a total of $4,000.
This program will be administered through our Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (LSSURP) office, which also houses programs in neuroscience and molecular biology.
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