BIOS will offer a hands-on experience for undergraduates in Fall 2011 as part of the NSF-REU Programme.   BIOS REUs will be focused on the "process of science" rather than on specific topics within science. Students will conduct independent research projects within the framework of the long-term deep ocean program conducted at Hydrostation S, the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study, the Microbial Observatory, and the Ocean Carbon and Climate Change Program. Students will have opportunities to focus on near-shore processes such as water and air pollution and ecotoxicology, coral reef ecology, marine genomics, biotechnology, topics within the Oceans and Human Health Program, and catastrophe models such as those used to predict hurricanes and rainfall events that cause flooding.

Students will design and conduct independent projects under faculty supervision within several research areas including:

• Biology, chemistry and physics of the open ocean
• Biology, physiology and biochemistry of reef building corals and reef ecosystems
• Aspects of the molecular biology of marine organisms
• Environmental chemistry of Bermuda's atmosphere and inshore waters
• Effects and consequences of global environmental change

Students who have completed at least two years of undergraduate study and will still be undergraduates in the fall of 2011 are eligible to apply.