[HubbardBrook] REUs and general field season envisioning

[Geoffrey Wilson]

Hello everyone,

We had a good REU/summer program visioning meeting a few weeks back and
wanted to follow up on the topics specific to the summer field season at
the site. The full meeting notes can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19yptev8epj0sTyrUsQBMib6quoGI1Rr7UF5bk5UxGLs/edit
).

*REU students*

*If you are interested in **working** with an REU student*, we would like
to schedule a follow-up meeting to assess our capacity so we can move
quickly to recruitment.  We would like to use these REU positions to
broaden participation at the site (as REUs are intended to do), and we also
need to make sure these students are well-supported during a roughly
10-week residency. Both tasks will take some creative thinking on our
parts.  Please contact Geoff if you want to bounce ideas around.

Please contact us (Linda and Geoff) with your ideas for student research
experiences, including a vision of their day-to-day for the summer. If that
vision is incomplete, CONTACT US ANYWAY.  This is a great opportunity to
figure out what we can do. Please have these ideas to us *by January 7.*

If you plan to be involved, please fill out this Doodle poll so we can meet
to assess where we stand. We might have 4 perfect situations.  Or 2.  Or
5.  Most likely our capacity will increase if we talk together.

https://doodle.com/poll/ddnqb6vkru2hq6fn?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

Please fill out the Doodle Poll *by December 22*.

*Field season visioning*

We would like to aim our efforts at providing student programming,
training, and general stimulation for the *summer residents as a whole*
(allowing for possibly targeting graduate students separately on
occasion).  We would like to continue envisioning what this could look
like.  I’m sure we’ll keep Science Nights (now with pizza!), and, COVID
permitting, we’ll revive the student symposium.  What else?  Trainings?
Field trips?  Public engagement?  What can we do that conveys to the
students our enthusiasm and values?  *We hope this will involve more of us
than just the REU mentor teams*, so please stay tuned and give some thought
to how you might like to contribute.

Sincerely,

Geoff and Linda
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