The Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory is seeking applicants for the Arctic projects.
Funding is anticipated for several summer jobs for college undergraduates.
These jobs involve field research in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The location of the research is Toolik Field Station, on the North Slope of Alaska. This is a special NSF education program in which regular NSF grants received supplemental funds each year to support one or two REU students. In addition to gaining experience by helping out as an assistant on a project, REU students are supposed to receive an identifiable educational experience. This is usually a project in which the REU student takes responsibility for some component of a current lakes, streams, terrestrial and land-water project, collects and analyzes some data and produces a poster on what was done.