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Dr. Jude Apple's position at Shannon Point Marine Lab includes serving as mentor for two NSF programs:
Multicultural Instruction in the Marine Sciences: Undergraduate Participation
(MIMSUP) and
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU).
MIMSUP is a 20-week program in which a diverse group of students from all over the country – as well as Latin
America - come to study at Shannon Point between January and June. As a mentor, Jude helps MIMSUP students
develop independent research projects, which are often connected to his own research. MIMSUP students have
participated in the Bellingham Bay Study as well as Jude's Pelagic Ecosystem Function research, going out on
cruises to conduct measurements that add to the year round data set for the San Juan Islands. "We expose them
to the iterative, exciting, inquiry-based process we call science," says Jude, "and they learn a little more
about being a scientist." Jude has brought MIMSUP students to the Pacific Estuarine Research Society meeting,
giving them an opportunity to see what it’s like to be at a scientific conference.
"I’m out there being excited about my science and pulling them along with me." |
The REU students come for the summer, and they are also from all over country, coming to have an independent
research-style learning experience at Shannon Point Marine Center. They also work on Jude's research areas,
and learn to collaborate with each other. Indeed, this last summer, COSEE PRIME, REU and NWIC interns worked
side-by-side on both the Bellingham Bay and Pelagic Ecosystem Study projects. The Bellingham Bay Study provides
an opportunity to engage REU students in doing science, giving them a question and having them go through the
process of understanding a particular phenomenon and answering it with available tools. And they inspire Jude
to keep mentoring: "They are the outcome."
