REU Site: Climate and Atmospheric Science Research Experience in the Center for Climate and Aerosol Research at Portland State University

本科生研究体验(REU)网站支持为期十周的本科生强化暑期项目，通过波特兰州立大学(PSU)气候和气溶胶研究中心(CCAR)开展大气和气候科学研究。该计划每年将支持10名本科生学者与教师导师组成的跨学科团队合作，以实现投资于持续和多样化的大气科学研究社区的目标。REU网站面向西北农村和美洲原住民学生，通过专注于地球科学，并结合实际环境导向、户外实地工作和通过一系列交付成果对学生参与者进行评估的元素，招募并特别有效地服务于西北和美洲原住民。该计划的具体目标是：(1)培养来自俄勒冈州和华盛顿州各地大学和学院的多样化的大气科学研究学生；招聘努力将集中于目前在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域代表性不足的学生，包括美洲原住民和来自农村地区的学生，他们在自己的学院和大学获得研究经验的机会有限或没有机会，以及这些经验将带来重大经济或个人负担的学生；(2)为参与大气和气候科学的学生提供深入教育，这些机会通常是本科生不能获得的；(3)教授可在STEM研究领域(如科学研究、假设检验、信息素养、批判性思维、数据分析、计算机编程、研究仪器、实验室和实地研究科学、口头和书面交流)之间转移的技能；(4)在PSU大气科学学院的指导下，指导学生进行独立的跨学科研究。成功地实现REU的四个地点目标将促进STEM学科的留存，同时增加科学研究人员的多样性。通过与我们的地区社区学院和农村四年制机构建立伙伴关系，并利用PSU的大量机构资源，REU网站将招聘一批具有地区影响力的强大和多样化的学者。一旦进入巴黎州立大学，该项目旨在通过整个REU经历，进一步培养农村、美洲原住民和其他STEM领域未被充分代表的学生的归属感(认同感)。培训本科生研究科学家对REU学者有直接好处，并将支持他们作为这些领域的研究人员的发展，因为精选的学生追求气候和大气科学的职业生涯。他们接受的技术实验室、实地和计算机培训以及通过区域教育联盟为所有参与者提供的专业发展将适用于一系列STEM学科，无论他们最终的职业轨迹如何。最后，这个REU网站将影响和提升PSU在气候和大气科学方面的研究，并将有助于改善本科生的可及性、质量和研究经验的多样性。通过演讲和计划中的出版物，REU网站将与美国和全球其他以地球物理本科生为基础的研究项目分享该项目及其评估。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site supports a ten-week intensive summer program for undergraduates to conduct atmospheric and climate science research through the Portland State University (PSU) Center for Climate and Aerosol Research (CCAR). The program will support ten undergraduate scholars per year to work with an interdisciplinary team of faculty mentors towards the goal of investing in a sustained and diverse atmospheric science research community. The REU site recruits and is designed to be particularly effective for rural Northwest and Native American students by focusing on geoscience and incorporating elements of a practical environmental orientation, outdoor field work, and assessment of student participants through a range of deliverables. The specific objectives of the program are to: (1) train a diverse cohort of students from universities and colleges across Oregon & Washington in atmospheric science research; recruiting efforts will focus on students currently underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields including Native Americans and students from rural areas with limited or no opportunities for research experience at their own colleges and universities, and on those students for which such experience would come with significant financial or personal burdens; (2) provide in-depth education to participating students in atmospheric and climate science, opportunities not typically available to undergraduates; (3) teach skills transferable across STEM research fields (e.g., scientific inquiry, hypothesis testing, information literacy, critical thinking data analysis, computer programming, research instrumentation, laboratory and field research science, oral and written communication); (4) mentor students in independent interdisciplinary research, guided by PSU atmospheric science faculty.Successfully addressing the four REU site goals will promote retention in STEM disciplines while increasing the diversity of scientific researchers. Through partnerships with our regional community colleges and rural four-year institutions and leveraging significant institutional resources at PSU, the REU site will recruit a strong and diverse pool of scholars with a regional reach. Once at PSU, the program aims to further foster a sense of belonging (identity) for rural, Native American and other underrepresented students in STEM fields throughout the REU experience. Training undergraduate research scientists has direct benefit to REU scholars and will support their development as researchers in these fields as select students pursue careers in climate and atmospheric sciences. The technical laboratory, field and computational training they receive and the professional development provided through the REU for all participants will be applicable to a range of STEM disciplines regardless of their final career trajectories. Finally, this REU site will impact and elevate research in climate and atmospheric science at PSU as a whole and will help improve accessibility, quality, and diversity of research experiences for undergraduates. Through presentations and a planned publication, the REU site will share the program and its evaluation with other geophysical undergraduate-based research programs across the United States and globally.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.