REU Site: Advancing Space Sciences through Undergraduate Research Experiences (ASSURE)

加州大学空间科学实验室通过本科生研究体验推进空间科学（ASSURE）项目为本科生提供了沉浸式的空间科学研究和工程体验。学生将接触到多学科研究实验室环境，与该领域的领导者一起进行前沿研究。ASSURE项目积极从社区学院和其他机构招募参与者，这些机构为空间和地球科学领域历史上代表性不足的人群提供服务，目的是在他们的职业生涯早期提供研究经验。该项目采用的跨学科方法反映了学生最终在工作中可能面临的技能范围。ASSURE计划支持与航天器仪器和硬件开发、数据分析和高性能计算相关的研究项目，这些项目处于联邦资助的地球空间研究的前沿。参与该计划的学生将获得设计和管理实验研究计划所需的经验，并支持一系列正在进行的地球空间任务。SSL的研究人员由不同的国际团体组成，他们从事射电天文学、磁层物理学、太阳物理学、行星科学、高能天体物理学等一系列空间物理任务，并维护强大的工程设施。SSL的工作范围为ASSURE学生提供了全面接触地球空间研究的机会，包括空间天气和其他具有国家重要性的现象。该REU站点的目标旨在满足国家科学基金会“扩展科学、工程和学习方面的知识”和“提高国家应对当前和未来挑战的能力”的战略目标。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。

The Advancing Space Sciences through Undergraduate Research Experience (ASSURE) program at the University of California Space Sciences Laboratory provides undergraduate students with an immersive experience in space science research and engineering. Students are exposed to a multidisciplinary research laboratory setting, conducting cutting edge research alongside leaders in the field. The ASSURE program actively recruits participants from community colleges and other institutions serving populations historically underrepresented in the space and geosciences with the aim of providing research experience early in their careers. The interdisciplinary approach taken in the program is reflective of the range of skills that students may eventually face in the workforce.The ASSURE program supports research projects relating to the development of spacecraft instrumentation and hardware, data analysis, and high performance computing at the forefront of federally funded geospace research. Students involved in the program acquire experience required for design and management of experimental research programs and support a range of on-going geospace missions. The research staff at SSL is composed of a diverse international community working on a range of space physics missions in radio astronomy, magnetospheric physics, heliophysics, planetary science, high energy astrophysics, and maintains robust engineering facilities. The range of work at SSL provides ASSURE students with the opportunity to gain a comprehensive exposure to a range of geospace research, including space weather and other phenomena of national importance. The goals of this REU site are designed to address NSF strategic goals of “expanding knowledge in science, engineering and learning” and to “advance the capability of the nation to meet current and future challenges.”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.