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

REU 网站：波特兰州立大学气候和气溶胶研究中心的气候和大气科学研究经验

• 批准号: 1950702
• 负责人: Andrew Rice
• 金额: $ 45.61万
• 依托单位: Portland State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950702&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Climate; Atmospheric; Science

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.

这个本科生研究经验（REU）网站支持一个为期十周的强化夏季项目，本科生通过波特兰州立大学（PSU）气候和气溶胶研究中心（CCAR）进行大气和气候科学研究。该项目每年将支持10名本科生学者与一个跨学科的教师导师团队合作，朝着投资于一个持续和多样化的大气科学研究社区的目标迈进。REU网站招募并设计为特别有效的西北农村和美洲原住民学生，重点关注地球科学，结合实际环境导向的元素，户外实地工作，并通过一系列可交付的学生参与者评估。该项目的具体目标是：(1)在大气科学研究方面培养来自俄勒冈州和华盛顿州各大学和学院的各类学生；招聘工作将侧重于目前在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域代表性不足的学生，包括美国原住民和来自农村地区的学生，他们在自己的学院和大学里获得研究经验的机会有限或没有机会，以及那些获得研究经验将带来重大经济或个人负担的学生；(2)为参与的学生提供深入的大气与气候科学教育，这是本科生通常无法获得的机会；(3)教授STEM研究领域可转移的技能（例如，科学探究，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，口头和书面沟通）；(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。成功地解决四个REU站点目标将促进STEM学科的保留，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大学的合作伙伴关系，并利用PSU的重要机构资源，REU网站将招募具有区域影响力的强大和多样化的学者。一旦进入PSU，该计划旨在进一步培养农村，美洲原住民和其他代表性不足的学生在整个REU经历中的STEM领域的归属感（身份）。培养本科研究科学家对REU学者有直接的好处，并将支持他们作为这些领域的研究人员的发展，因为选择学生追求气候和大气科学的职业。他们接受的技术实验室，现场和计算培训以及通过REU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站点将影响和提升整个PSU的气候和大气科学研究，并将有助于提高本科生研究经验的可及性，质量和多样性。通过演讲和计划出版，REU网站将与美国和全球其他地球物理本科研究项目分享该项目及其评估。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

The Legacy of Redlining: A Geo-Spatiotemporal Analysis of Environmental Injustice in Portland, Oregon

划线的遗产：俄勒冈州波特兰环境不公正的地理时空分析

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Transactions American Geophysical Union
• 作者: Gunn, W.;Rao, M.
• 通讯作者: Rao, M.

Evaluation of low-cost NDIR sensors for measurements of ambient CO2 in urban atmospheres

评估用于测量城市大气中环境二氧化碳的低成本 NDIR 传感器

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Transactions American Geophysical Union
• 作者: Wolsborn, J.;Hendrick, K.;Yep, I.;Rice, A.
• 通讯作者: Rice, A.

Examining the recent reversal of negative atmospheric ethane trends through inverse modeling

通过反演模型检查近期大气乙烷负趋势的逆转

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Transactions American Geophysical Union
• 作者: Koskela, A.;Butenhoff, C.
• 通讯作者: Butenhoff, C.

Spatial variability in stable isotopes of snow and ice from perennial snowfields in the Pacific Northwest

太平洋西北地区常年雪原的雪和冰稳定同位素的空间变异性

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Abstracts Geological Society of America
• 作者: Petersen, N.;Bershaw, J.
• 通讯作者: Bershaw, J.

An Analysis of Secondary Cyclone Development on Atmospheric Rivers to Synoptic Environments in the North Pacific

北太平洋大气河流二次气旋发展对天气环境的影响分析

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Transactions of the American Meteorological Society
• 作者: Newman, E.;Martin, A.;Das, S.
• 通讯作者: Das, S.