REU Site: Program in Climate and Space Science Observation (PICASSO) at the University of Michigan

密歇根大学安娜堡分校的本科生研究经验（REU）网站每年将为七名学生提供实践这种混合（观察，建模）科学调查方法的机会。这些学生将有机会：(a)设计和开展导师指导的研究项目，(b)参加一系列专业发展活动，(c)培养向同行和公众传达科学和研究成果的技能，(d)向教师和研究生学习选择、申请研究生院和在研究生院取得成功的细微差别，以及(e)更好地全面了解STEM领域职业生涯的各个方面。学生将在夏季研讨会结束时展示他们的研究成果，并将获得资金支持，在夏季课程结束后参加专业会议并展示他们的工作。这个REU站点将寻求让来自STEM学科中代表性不足的群体的学生参与广泛的大气和空间科学学科的研究，包括气候科学和适应规划、大气-生物圈相互作用、气溶胶和大气化学、空气质量、天基遥感、空间天气和行星大气。我们对大气科学和空间科学认识的提高依赖于地面和天基观测的使用。除了提供对许多复杂环境过程和趋势的见解外，这些观测还可用于评估区域/全球气候模式、生态系统级模式和空间天气模式的性能，每一个模式都代表了我们对这些过程的最佳理论描述。这些观测和模型在许多方面用于保护人类健康和福祉，从帮助制定适应战略，在气候变化中保护社区基础设施，到预测太阳风暴与大气相互作用的时间和强度，这些相互作用有可能影响通信和我们国家的电网。通过向学生介绍测量设计、质量保证和控制、数据分析和展示、模型开发和评估以及科学不确定性的评估和沟通等主题，该项目将寻求培养对科学和道德负责的未来科学家，同时提高这些学生在继续参与STEM领域方面的整体自我效能感。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor will provide seven students, annually, with a hands-on exposure to this hybrid (observation, modeling) approach to scientific investigation. These students will have the opportunity to: (a) design and carry out a mentor-guided research project, (b) participate in a series of professional development activities, (c) develop skills in communicating science and research results to their peers and the general public, (d) learn from faculty and graduate students about the nuances of selecting, applying to, and succeeding in graduate school, and (e) develop a better overall understanding of the many facets of a career in STEM fields. Students will present their research results at an end of summer symposium, and will receive financial support to attend and present their work at a professional conference following the completion of the summer program. This REU site will seek to engage students from groups typically underrepresented in STEM disciplines in research from a broad range of atmospheric and space science disciplines, including climate science and adaptation planning, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, aerosols and atmospheric chemistry, air quality, space-based remote sensing, space-weather and planetary atmospheres. Improvements in our understanding of the atmospheric and space sciences rely on the use of both ground- and space-based observations. In addition to providing insights into many complex environmental processes and trends, these observations can also be used to evaluate the performance of regional/global climate models, ecosystem-level models, and space weather models, each of which represent our best theoretical descriptions of these processes. These observations and models are used to protect human health and welfare in a number of ways, ranging from aiding in the development of adaptation strategies to protect community infrastructure in a changing climate, to allowing for the prediction of the timing and intensity of solar storm interactions with our atmosphere, which have the potential to impact communications and our nation's power grid. Through the introduction of the students to topics such as measurement design, quality assurance and control, data analysis and presentation, model development and evaluation, and assessment and communication of scientific uncertainties, this project will seek to produce scientifically and ethically responsible future scientists, while improving the overall self-efficacy of these students regarding their continued participation in STEM fields.