REU/RET Site Program at the National Solar Observatory

国家太阳天文台 REU/RET 站点计划

• 批准号: 0852096
• 负责人: Matthew Penn
• 金额: $ 39.54万
• 依托单位: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0852096&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; RET; Site; Program; National

This award will continue the National Solar Observatory (NSO) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) / Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program with the funding of six students and four teachers per summer. The NSO offers a unique educational opportunity by providing direct access to world-class research facilities and scientific staff in solar physics research. The NSO provides the solar physics community with a suite of world-class telescopes that enable studies of the solar interior, photosphere, chromosphere and corona. With direct use of these facilities, or by using data previously taken with NSO telescopes, students will be mentored in projects ranging from studies of the Alfvén waves in the solar corona to measurements of the plasma flows in the solar interior below coronal mass ejections. NSO REU students enjoy exposure to the intense research environment at the Sacramento Peak telescope facilities, and to the university environment of the Tucson location; at both sites, the REU students mix with graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in addition to their scientific mentors. The REU students' independence is fostered by requiring research talks at the end of the summer.The NSO REU/RET Site has a goal of serving a diverse group of students, including those from research universities and those from smaller schools that normally would not have access to forefront research projects. The NSO program has served an audience with a gender and ethnic diversity comparable to that of the general physics and astronomy undergraduate population, and continues to work to increase REU and RET participant ethnic diversity.This site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences under the NSF REU program.

该奖项将继续国家太阳天文台（NSO）本科生研究经验（REU）/教师研究经验（RET）计划，每年夏天资助6名学生和4名教师。 NSO通过提供直接接触世界一流的研究设施和太阳物理研究科学人员的机会，提供独特的教育机会。 国家天文台为太阳物理学界提供了一套世界级的望远镜，使人们能够研究太阳内部、光球层、色球层和日冕。通过直接使用这些设施，或通过使用以前用国家空间局望远镜获得的数据，将指导学生进行各种项目，从研究日冕中的阿尔文波到测量日冕物质抛射下太阳内部的等离子体流。NSO REU学生享受接触到激烈的研究环境在萨克拉门托峰望远镜设施，并图森位置的大学环境;在这两个网站，REU学生与研究生和博士后研究人员除了他们的科学导师混合。 国家统计局REU/RET网站的目标是为不同群体的学生提供服务，包括来自研究型大学的学生和来自通常无法接触前沿研究项目的较小学校的学生。国家统计局的计划为观众提供了性别和种族多样性，与普通物理和天文学本科生人口相媲美，并继续努力增加REU和RET参与者的种族多样性。该网站由国防部与NSF天文科学部合作资助，根据NSF REU计划。