REU in Costa Rica: Ecohydrology of a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest

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The goal of the proposed Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) is to provide undergraduate students with an opportunity to develop essential skills in designing, executing and disseminating original research that quantifies the hydrologic and biogeochemical fluxes in the watershed of a tropical montane cloud forest. Students will have an opportunity to work on field and laboratory research under the guidance of faculty mentors at the newly constructed Texas A&M Soltis Center for Research and Education near San Isidro in central Costa Rica. The REU site will provide a unique international opportunity for students to be immersed in the practice of active inquiry and research on:

'multi-scale climate feedbacks and change

'hydro-meteorological transfers through the canopy

'hydrologic pathways and fluxes

'forest structure and feedback

'geophysical gradients and controls



Application Deadline: 1/31/2013

Program Dates: 6/1/2013 - 8/1/2013

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This Program is funded by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)