REU Site: Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目将使每年有10名本科生通过本科生研究经验（REU）现场计划参加密歇根大学空间物理研究实验室每年三个月的科学研究。空间物理研究实验室是一个广泛的跨学科研究组织，是该大学工程学院大气、海洋和空间科学系的一部分。现有教职工46人，其中科研人员26人。实验室REU项目的目标是吸引、激励和培养地球科学领域的本科生，特别是在美国国家科学基金会大气科学部感兴趣的三个领域，即磁层物理学、航空学和大气化学。学生们将接触到不同领域的项目，如气辉和大气科学、空间等离子体物理、电离层和磁层、空气污染运输、行星大气和激光雷达。活动将包括使用已经或即将在太空飞行的仪器的实践经验，进行大气的原位或遥感测量，制造和校准最先进的仪器和设备，以及使用和/或开发软件包来分析测量和操作大型数据库。参与者的其他活动包括参加每周的研讨会，准备研究的书面报告，并向其他学生和感兴趣的教职员工口头介绍他们的发现。学生将与他们的研究顾问（同时也是导师）、项目的其他参与者、研究生、教职员工和空间物理实验室的研究人员互动。其中一些项目将在期刊上发表或在科学会议上发表。正在作出特别努力，招募妇女和代表性不足的群体参加该方案。目标是培养学生对大气和空间科学的兴趣和研究经验，这些学生可能会把这些领域作为职业。

ATM 0851175This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The project will enable ten undergraduate students per year to participate in scientific research for three months per year at the University of Michigan in the Space Physics Research Laboratory through a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program. The Space Physics Research Laboratory is a broad interdisciplinary research organization that is part of the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences within the College of Engineering at the university. The Department has 46 faculty members, including 26 research faculty. The goal of the lab's REU program is to attract, motivate and train undergraduates in the geosciences, specifically within three areas of interest to the Atmospheric Sciences Division of NSF, namely, Magnetospheric Physics, Aeronomy, and Atmospheric Chemistry. The students will be exposed to projects in a variety of areas such as Airglow and Atmospheric Science, Space Plasma Physics, Ionospheres and Magnetospheres, Air Pollution Transport, Planetary Atmospheres, and Lidars. Activities will include hands-on experience working with instrumentation that has flown or will fly in space, conducting in situ or remote sensing measurements of the atmosphere, fabricating and calibrating state-of-the-art instruments and devices, and using and/or developing software packages to analyze the measurements and manipulate large data bases. Additional activities for the participants include attending weekly seminars, preparing a written report of their research, and orally presenting their findings to the other students and interested faculty and staff. Students will interact with their research advisors, who also serve as mentors, as well as other participants in the program and with graduate students, faculty members, and research staff at the Space Physics Lab. Some of the projects will result in journal publications or presentations at scientific meetings. Special efforts are being made to recruit women and underrepresented groups to the program. The goal is to engender interest and research experience in the atmospheric and space sciences in students who might pursue these areas as a career.