REU Site: Atmospheric Science in the Gulf Coast Region at Texas A&M University

该奖项为德克萨斯农工大学大气科学系的本科生研究体验(REU)项目提供资金。该项目允许本科生在夏季进行为期8周的大气科学研究项目，预计每年夏天招收10名学生。REU学生的研究涉及物理气象学、大气化学、天气和气候之间的联系，以及进行和分析观测以及设计、进行和解释建模研究。研究主题主要由海湾沿岸地区的空气质量、气候变化和降水过程驱动。学生们大部分时间都在大气科学系的导师的指导下进行有针对性的研究。学生还可以接触到大气科学中的各种研究环境和多个子学科，使他们清楚地了解各种大气科学研究和学习机会。REU项目通过其教育重点产生了更广泛的影响，因为它使学生接触到大气科学研究，并帮助发展大气科学学科的未来劳动力。这个REU项目特别有利，因为它位于墨西哥湾沿岸地区，而且重点放在墨西哥湾沿岸地区，那里几乎没有大气科学部门，而且当这个奖项颁发时，没有其他REU项目在大气科学方面。这个REU网站以区域为重点，让学生参与与他们自己和邻近社区直接相关的研究问题，为这些社区带来直接和长期的好处。此外，REU计划努力通过德克萨斯农工大学教职员工与该地区少数族裔服务机构之间的现有合作伙伴关系，以及通过对少数族裔服务机构的招募访问，从代表性较低的群体中招收学生。

This award funds a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University. The program allows undergraduate students to conduct research projects in atmospheric science over an 8-week period during the summer, with an expected enrollment of 10 students each summer. REU student research involves linkages between physical meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and weather and climate, as well as making and analyzing observations and designing, conducting, and interpreting modeling studies. Research topics are largely driven by air quality, climate change, and precipitation processes in the Gulf Coastal region. Students spend the majority of their time conducting focused research under the direction of mentors from the Atmospheric Sciences Department. Sudents also gain exposure to a variety of research settings and multiple sub-disciplines within atmospheric sciences, giving them a clear understanding of the wide variety of atmospheric science research and study opportunities available to them.The REU program has broader impacts through its educational focus, as it exposes students to atmospheric science research and helps to develop the future workforce in atmospheric science disciplines. This REU program is particularly advantageous due to its location in and focus on the Gulf Coast Region, in which there are few atmospheric science departments and, when this award was made, no other REU programs in atmospheric sciences. With its regional focus, this REU site involves students in research problems that are directly relevant to their own and neighboring communities, leading to immediate and long-term benefits to those communities. In addition, the REU program strives to recruit students from underrepresented groups, both through existing partnerships between Texas A&M faculty and minority-serving institutions in the region, and through recruiting visits to minority-serving institutions.