REU Site: Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in the Geosciences

该奖项是继续在阿拉斯加大学地球物理研究所的REU现场计划。 自1987年以来的成功的基础上，该计划将提供进一步的研究机会，主修物理科学的本科生。 该计划的目标是让本科生熟悉生活和研究机构的工作。 实现这一目标的办法是提供暑期教育工作机会，让本科生成为实习生，参加研究所的研究活动。 研究课题集中在空间物理学和高空大气物理学，但也延伸到大气科学，并以较小的方式到固态物理学和激光物理学。 学生被分配与指导他们的工作并在实习期间担任导师的个人主要研究人员进行研究。 每周讲座和实地考察的共同计划旨在使实习生接触超出其项目范围的研究领域。 通过与导师的密切关系，与研究生的联系，参加研讨会，讲座和论文答辩，并参加实地考察，实习生获得了作为研究科学家的生活和工作的第一手资料。

This award is to continue an REU site program at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska. Building on success since 1987, this program will give further research opportunities to undergraduates majoring in the physical sciences. The program objective is to acquaint undergraduates with life and work at a research institute. The objective is achieved by providing summer educational work opportunities in which undergraduates become interns participating in the research activities at the Institute. Research topics concentrate on space physics and aeronomy, but also extend to atmospheric science, and in a minor way to solid state physics and laser physics. Students are assigned to conduct research with individual principal investigators who direct their work and serve as mentors during their internship. A common program of weekly lectures and field trips is designed to expose interns to fields of research beyond the scope of their project. Through their close relationships with their mentors, contacts with graduate students, attendance at seminars, lectures, and thesis defenses, and participation in field trips, the interns gain a first hand perspective on life and work as a research scientist.