REU Site: Climate Science Research at the Pennsylvania State University

宾夕法尼亚州立大学的气候科学研究REU站点是一个为期十周的项目，旨在培训本科生在气候科学、科学探究和科学传播方面的知识。该项目旨在让学生接触到全方位的科学探索，从产生假设到向其他科学家和公众传达研究结果及其影响。在教师导师的指导下，学生将学会设计实验，收集和分析数据，并向科学和非科学受众展示结果。学生将在教员专业领域内工作，但选择和定义个人感兴趣的项目。研究项目将涉及气候科学的范围，从大气、海洋和冰冻圈的基本物理过程和理论气候模型，到涉及生物圈的相互作用，以及对各种自然和人类系统的影响。每名学生将有一名教师指导与气候科学和社会相关的研究活动。学生们还将与一位传播专家合作，研究如何有效地传播这项研究的社会相关性。该项目将针对来自本科生研究机会有限的大学的学生，让这些学生在气候科学领域获得就业机会。将特别重视招收女性和少数族裔学生，因为这两个群体在地球科学领域的代表性仍然很低。该计划将向学生传授研究方法，否则他们接触尖端科学研究的机会有限。该计划的目的是为学生提供足够的知识，使他们不仅能够为科学本身的进步做出贡献，而且还能够在学术界以及整个教育系统和整个社会中提高科学素养。因此，该计划的一个新要素是培训学生开发和使用视听材料，作为广泛传播研究成果及其影响的手段。

The Climate Science Research REU Site at The Pennsylvania State University is a ten-week program to train undergraduate students in climate science, scientific inquiry, and science communication. The program seeks to expose students to the full range of scientific exploration, from generating hypotheses to communicating research findings and their implications to other scientists and the general public. With guidance from faculty advisors, students will learn to design experiments, collect and analyze data, and present results to scientific and non-scientific audiences. Students will work within an area of faculty expertise, but choose and define a project of personal interest. Research projects will involve the spectrum of climate science from fundamental physical processes of the atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere andtheoretical climate modeling, to interactions entailing the biosphere, and impacts on various natural and human systems. Each student will have a faculty advisor to guide the research activities related to climate science and society. Students will also work with a communication expert on how to effectively communicate the societal relevance of the research.The program will target students from universities where research opportunities for undergraduates are limited, exposing these students to career opportunities in the area of climate science. Particular emphasis will be placed on recruiting female and minority students, as these two groups remain largely underrepresented in geosciences. The program will teach research methods tostudents who otherwise would have limited opportunities for exposure to leading edge scientific research. The intent of the program is to provide students with sufficient knowledge so that they can contribute not only to the advancement of science itself, but also to the improvement of scientific literacy within academia and throughout our educational systems and society at large. Thus, a novel element of this program is the training of students in the development and the use of audiovisuals as means of broad communication of research results and their implications.