REU Site: Summer Fellowships in Biogeochemistry and Climate Change

该奖项延续了加州大学欧文分校地球系统科学系生物地球化学和气候研究经验项目。该计划的主要目标是激励和鼓励合格的本科生在地球科学领域寻求研究生培训，并为与气候变化有关的社会问题提供新知识和解决方案。在为期九周的时间里，八名学生将接触到与全球气候变化有关的广泛科学问题，并接触到多样化的跨学科研究环境。活动包括个人和监督研究，小组阅读和讨论，队伍建设，接触国家科学界，专业技能发展和指导有关气候科学研究生教育。在夏季项目中，学生将独立工作，在团队中，并与他们的导师进一步了解影响地球气候系统的物理和生物地球化学过程在与人类一生相关的时间尺度上。研究领域多样，包括大气、海洋、陆地和极地系统。这些研究项目涵盖了一系列学科，包括大气化学、海洋和陆地生物地球化学、空气/海洋气体交换、海洋环流、海冰和冰盖动力学以及古气候学。在他们的项目过程中，学生将获得地球化学分析、遥感、数据分析和/或数值模拟的实践经验。组织者希望通过为本科院校的合格学生提供独特的教育体验，从广泛的机构招募学生，以扩大在生物地球化学和气候领域寻求职业的学生的数量和多样性。它特别针对那些在这个领域没有活跃的研究项目（或只有有限的项目）的机构的学生，以及那些在地球科学领域历史上代表性不足的群体的学生。

This award continues an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Site program in Biogeochemistry and Climate at the University of California, Irvine's Department of Earth System Science. The principal goal of the program is to inspire and encourage qualified undergraduate students to seek graduate training in the Earth Sciences and to contribute to the generation of new knowledge and solutions for societal problems related to climate change. Over a period of nine weeks, eight students will be exposed to a broad range of scientific issues relating to global climate change and to a diverse, interdisciplinary research environment. Activities include individual and supervised research, group readings and discussions, cohort-building, exposure to the national scientific community, professional skill development and guidance concerning graduate education in climate science.During the summer program, students will work independently, in teams, and with their mentors to further understanding of physical and biogeochemical processes that influence the Earth's climate system on time scales relevant to a human lifetime. The research fields are diverse, including atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial, and polar systems. The research projects cover a range of disciplines, including atmospheric chemistry, marine and terrestrial biogeochemistry, air/sea gas exchange, ocean circulation, sea ice and ice-sheet dynamics, and paleoclimatology. During the course of their project, the students will gain hands-on experience with geochemical analysis, remote sensing, data analysis, and/or numerical simulation. The organizers seek to recruit from a wide range of institutions to expand the number and diversity of students seeking careers in the fields of Biogeochemistry and Climate by providing a unique educational experience to qualified students from undergraduate institutions. It especially targets students from institutions that do not have active research programs (or have only limited programs) in this field, and to students who are members of historically underrepresented groups in the Earth Sciences.