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

格鲁吉亚理工学院（即，格鲁吉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3年内每年接待10名本科生（2020年夏季，2021年和2022年），在跨越大气科学，海洋学和地球科学（AOG）的主题内进行研究。 选定的本科生参与者将在10周的时间内与教师导师一起工作，这些导师已经建立了关于气象学，气候科学，地球物理学，海洋学和行星科学等主题的研究计划。 此外，学生将参加一些专业发展的机会，在演唱会与预先存在的REU编程在格鲁吉亚技术。 这包括定期小组会议，每周AOG专业发展系列，团队建设活动，本科生研究研讨会和实地考察AOG相关的工业和政府部门组织。 在计划结束时，学生将制作一个会议式的研究报告和研究海报，以及可能导致他们的研究出版的研究论文。预计这些研究成果将为参与者在大气，海洋，地球科学和相关学科的研究生院的机会做好准备。AOG的多机构NSF REU计划的主要目标是：（i）为来访的本科生研究人员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追求，并在研究生学习中取得成功，（iii）聚集一批反映美国人口多样性的参与者，（iv）吸引来自研究活动有限的机构的学生，（v）在暑期课程结束后，当参与者返回其所在机构时，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机构之间的互动，从而提高主要为本科少数民族服务的机构的研究能力。 此外，预计联合体内部的合作将提供一个机会，从联合体内部和全国各地招募和培训各种参与者。 上述专业发展活动，与格鲁吉亚理工学院其他现有的REU项目合作，有助于使参与者熟悉各种项目，提高他们的演讲技巧，并提供学术，创业，经济，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.