REU Site: Broadening Participation in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Geosciences Research: A Multi-Institution Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program

佐治亚理工学院（即佐治亚理工学院）与克拉克亚特兰大大学、斯佩尔曼学院和莫尔豪斯学院合作，将在三年内（2020 年、2021 年和 2022 年夏季）每年招收 10 名本科生，开展大气科学、海洋学和地球科学 (AOG) 等主题的研究。 选定的本科生参与者将与教师导师一起工作 10 周，这些导师已经制定了完善的研究项目，主题包括气象学、气候科学、地球物理学、海洋学和行星科学。 此外，学生将参与佐治亚理工学院现有 REU 项目的一系列专业发展机会。 这包括定期小组会议、每周一次的 AOG 专业发展系列、团队建设活动、本科生研究研讨会以及对 AOG 相关工业和政府部门组织的实地考察。 在课程结束时，学生将制作会议式的研究演示和研究海报以及可能导致其研究发表的研究论文。预计这些研究产品将为参与者提供大气、海洋、地球科学和相关学科的研究生机会。AOG 中的多机构 NSF REU 项目的主要目标是：(i) 为访问本科研究人员群体提供高质量的研究经验和专业发展活动，(ii) 激励和准备有才华的本科生继续研究生学习并取得成功，(iii) 组建一支反映美国人口多样性的参与者骨干队伍，(iv) 吸引来自研究活动有限的机构的学生，(v) 在暑期项目结束后，当参与者返回自己的机构时，继续参与，以及 (vi) 促进联盟中四个机构之间在研究和教学方面的合作。 该计划旨在加强联盟内各机构之间的互动，从而提高主要为少数族裔提供本科服务的机构的研究能力。 此外，预计联盟内部的合作将为招募和培训来自联盟内部和全国各地的多元化参与者提供机会。 上述专业发展活动与佐治亚理工学院其他现有的 REU 项目合作，旨在让参与者熟悉广泛的项目，提高他们的演讲技巧，并在学术、创业、经济、伦理和跨学科框架中提供 AOG 研究的视角。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Georgia Institute of Technology (i.e., Georgia Tech), in collaboration with Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College and Morehouse College, will host 10 undergraduate students per year over 3 years (Summers 2020, 2021 and 2022) to conduct research within topics that span Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and the Geosciences (AOG). Selected undergraduate participants will work with faculty mentors over a 10-week period that have well established research programs on topics that include meteorology, climate science, geophysics, oceanography and planetary science. Additionally, students will participate in a number of professional development opportunities in concert with pre-existing REU programming at Georgia Tech. This includes regular group meetings, a weekly AOG professional development series, team-building activities, undergraduate research symposia and field trips to AOG-related industrial and government sector organizations. At the end of the program, students will produce a conference-style research presentation and research poster as well as a research paper that may potentially lead to publication of their research. It is anticipated that these research products will prepare participants for graduate school opportunities within the atmospheric, oceanographic, geoscience and related disciplines.The primary aims of the multi-institutional NSF REU program in AOG are to: (i) provide high quality research experiences and professional development activities for cohorts of visiting undergraduate researchers, (ii) motivate and prepare talented undergraduates to pursue, and succeed in, graduate study, (iii) assemble a cadre of participants that reflects the diversity of the U.S. population, (iv) attract students from institutions that have limited research activities, (v) continue engagement of the participants beyond the summer program when they return to their home institutions and (vi) foster collaborations in research and instruction between the four institutions in the consortium. The program seeks to enhance interactions between the institutions in the consortium and thereby enhance the capacity for research at predominantly undergraduate minority-serving institutions. Furthermore, it is expected that the collaboration within the consortium will provide an opportunity to recruit and train a diverse group of participants, both from within the consortium and across the nation. The professional development activities described above, in partnership with other pre-existing REU programming at Georgia Tech, serve to acquaint participants with a broad array of projects, enhance their presentation skills, and provide a perspective of AOG research in a scholarly, entrepreneurial, economic, ethical and interdisciplinary framework.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.