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<div>FYI: Great REU opportunity that overlaps with many of our OCEES students’ interests</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Alycia L. Stigall</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Professor and Graduate Chair</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Department of Geological Sciences</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">OHIO Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ohio University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">316 Clippinger Laboratories</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Athens, Ohio 45701</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(740) 593-0393</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:stigall@ohio.edu" target="_blank">stigall@ohio.edu</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u><a href="http://alyciastigall.org">http://alyciastigall.org</a>&nbsp;</u>(My lab website)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ohio.edu/paleo" target="_blank">http://www.ohio.edu/paleo</a>&nbsp;(OU Paleo program)</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Christy Visaggi &lt;<a href="mailto:cvisaggi@gsu.edu">cvisaggi@gsu.edu</a>&gt;<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 4:31 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Christy Visaggi &lt;<a href="mailto:cvisaggi@gsu.edu">cvisaggi@gsu.edu</a>&gt;<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>NSF REU Community GIS &amp; Citizen Science (Orlando &amp; Belize)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">As you may know, I’m co-PI of a NSF REU with fieldwork in Belize on GIS mapping of marine debris and flood disaster management.&nbsp; This is the second year of our program and we are in the midst of student recruitment!&nbsp;
 If you can please share the below and attached with your departments, colleagues, and/or undergraduates who you think may be interested in applying, please do! &nbsp;See below for more details.&nbsp; We have accepted students from a wide range of disciplines including
 environmental science, marine science, biology, geology, public health, urban planning, GIS, geography, sociology, etc.&nbsp; Feel free to share widely!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">Christy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">NSF International REU Site in Community GIS and Citizen Science<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Please see the below opportunity for the second year of the National Science Foundation
</span><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcitizensciencegis.org%2Fucf-reu-site&amp;data=01%7C01%7Ccvisaggi%40gsu.edu%7Cd71dfc014b3f4ea6846708d4439f0a52%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0&amp;sdata=5r0tp3r5TGce%2BblZranttINhM%2FQtUVH51NZ9OrTAN1I%3D&amp;reserved=0"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Research
 Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site “Preparing the Next Generation of Scholars through Community GIS and Citizen Science</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">.” The program offers fully funded summer research experiences for at least
 8 undergraduate students in Belize for 5 weeks and Orlando for two weeks hosted at the University of Central Florida.&nbsp;The program is open to all U.S. students and runs June 19-August 4, 2017.&nbsp; We are interdisciplinary in nature emphasizing community geography,
 community GIS, and citizen science through mixed methods, including sketch mapping, mobile mapping applications, focus groups, in-depth interviews, GIS, and spatial analysis.&nbsp; Last year we had participants from a range of academic backgrounds including environmental
 science, geography, urban planning, marine biology, geology, public health, and more.&nbsp; We are very much interested in recruiting a diverse suite of researchers for this summer!&nbsp; Please see below for more information on the specifics of our program (and feel
 free to share and post the attached flyer as well with any interested parties).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To encourage competitive applications, we're hosting a Facebook Live
 Event entitled &quot;Secrets to an Awesome Citizen Science GIS REU Application&quot; on Wednesday, February 1 @ 3 pm EST. Join Dr. Hawthorne (REU PI) and Lain Graham (REU Senior Research Coordinator), who will be giving away secrets for a successful application to our
 National Science Foundation (NSF) #REU Site in Orlando and Belize. Please share with your colleagues and have them join us. #citizensciencegis #ucfreu.&nbsp; Join the discussion at
</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/citizensciencegis"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">https://www.facebook.com/citizensciencegis</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Research opportunities: </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Students will work in one of two research directions with community partners and mentors from University of Central Florida, University
 of Belize, Georgia State University, The Hopkins Belize Village Council, and The
<span style="background:white">Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems Program:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Research Direction 1: Mapping disparities in flooding &amp; disaster management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Research Direction 2: Mapping marine debris &amp; mitigating impacts on coastal communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 a meal allowance, free shared housing in Belize and Orlando, up to $750 in travel support to/from the REU Site, up to $750 for post-REU conference travel, and 2 research methods books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Dr. Timothy Hawthorne: Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Systems at University of Central Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Dr. Christy Visaggi: Co-Principal Investigator, Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director in Geosciences at Georgia State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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