REU Site: Regional Atmospheric Chemistry: State-of-the-art Measurement and Modeling in the Pacific Northwest

本科生（REU）计划的研究经验将教育早期研究人员在大气化学，空气质量和气候变化的令人兴奋的领域。从大一到大四的学生将获得与大气化学领域相关的研究的实践经验，该计划促进了跨学科和合作研究的想法，以鼓励参与者留在STEM学科并追求研究生院的机会。该计划还将扩大参与者的多样性，让工程和科学领域代表性不足的学生参与进来，包括来自社区学院的学生，这些学生没有机会参与研究。要了解复杂的大气化学过程，需要使用多台仪器同时进行测量，并建立复杂的数值模型，将数据汇集成一个连贯的科学产品。这使得大气化学成为向本科生介绍测量和建模之间的科学联系以及环境研究的协作性质的理想主题。该计划的目标包括在大气化学背景下发展科学和工程领域的技术专长，并让学生参与导致科学出版物和演示的真实研究活动;帮助学生了解大气研究的广泛范围，使他们了解他们的研究如何适应气候变化的更广泛的社会背景;发展口头和书面沟通技能;为学生提供机会，了解职业和研究生院的选择;招募多元化的学生参与者;并为参与者提供机会，与教师和研究生进行富有成效和有意义的社交互动，使参与者对STEM领域和研究生院形成积极和富有成效的信念。每年夏天将招募10名学生，目标是太平洋西北部代表性不足的社区。在为期9.5周的课程中，研讨会将培训学生大气化学，测量和建模技术，数据解释和科学交流。在这些研讨会的同时，学生将与教师和研究生导师一起接受他们个人研究项目所需的特定研究工具的培训。学生将成为校园内更大的学者社区的一部分，并在最后的校园海报会议上展示他们的研究。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program will educate early researchers in the exciting field of atmospheric chemistry, air quality and climate change. Students ranging from freshman to seniors will gain hands-on experience in research related to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and the program promotes the idea of interdisciplinary and collaborative research to encourage the participants to remain in a STEM discipline and pursue graduate school opportunities. The program will also broaden the diversity of participants to involve underrepresented students in engineering and science, including students from community colleges that do not have an opportunity to participate in research. Understanding complex atmospheric chemical processes requires simultaneous measurements from numerous instruments, and sophisticated numerical models to bring the data together into a coherent scientific product. This makes atmospheric chemistry an ideal topic for introducing undergraduates to the scientific linkage between measurements and modeling and to the collaborative nature of environmental research. Goals for the program include developing technical expertise in science and engineering areas within the context of atmospheric chemistry, and engaging students in authentic research activities that lead to scientific publications and presentations; helping students understand the broad scope of atmospheric research so they understand how their research fits within the broader societal context of climate change; developing oral and written communication skills; providing opportunities for students to learn about career and graduate school options; recruiting a diverse set of student participants; and providing opportunities for participants to engage in productive and meaningful social interactions with faculty and graduate students so that participants will develop positive and productive beliefs about STEM fields and graduate school. Ten students will be recruited each summer, targeting underrepresented communities in the Pacific Northwest. Workshops during the 9.5-week program, will train students in atmospheric chemistry, measurement and modeling techniques, data interpretation, and scientific communication. In parallel with these workshops, students will be trained on the specific research tools required for their individual research projects with faculty and graduate student mentors. The students will form part of a larger community of scholars on campus and showcase their research during a final campus wide poster session.