REU Site: The Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan

12名本科生通过竞争被选中在密歇根大学大气、海洋和空间科学系的空间物理研究实验室度过3个夏季，每个人都与40多名教职员工中的一名合作。（其中15-20人定期参加）在气辉和大气科学，空间等离子体物理学，地球和行星电离层和磁层，空气污染传输和行星大气。学生有机会与他们的导师，其他本科生在该计划，研究生在大学和其他教职员工和研究人员互动。他们能够亲身体验使用已经或将要在太空飞行的仪器，对大气进行现场和遥感测量，以及制造和校准这些最先进系统的组件。他们还能够选择构建和使用软件包，解决分析表达式，分析图像形式的太空飞行数据，并操作大型数据库。他们的经验的一部分包括参加由教师/工作人员提供的每周研讨会，在报告中为他们的导师写了他们的工作（这可能是可替换的），并口头向学生和工作人员介绍他们的报告。智力价值：这个拟议的计划的智力价值包含在所产生的研究工作的实际成就中。一些项目已经或将直接导致在期刊上发表或在科学会议上发表演讲。更广泛的影响：除此之外，更广泛的影响是REU计划的根本目的所固有的，这是为了在可能将这些领域作为职业的学生中产生对大气和空间科学的兴趣和研究经验。在这方面，我们作出了特别的努力，并在吸引妇女和代表人数不足的少数民族进入这些物理科学领域方面取得了一定的成功。此外，近年来，每年都有近一名夏季REU学生在一两年后作为我们自己的硕士研究生返回，工程硕士，或博士程序.

Twelve undergraduate students are competitively selected to spend 3 summer months at the Space Physics Research Laboratory in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, where each works with one of the over 40 faculty members (of which up to 15-20 regularly participate) doing research in Airglow and Atmospheric Science, Space Plasma Physics, Earth and Planetary Ionospheres and Magnetospheres, Air Pollution Transport, and Planetary Atmospheres. The students have opportunities to interact with their mentors, other undergraduate students in the program, graduate students at the university and other faculty members and research staff. They are able to have hands on experience working with instrumentation, which has flown or will fly in space, making in situ and remote sensing measurements of the atmosphere, and fabricating and calibrating components of these state-of-the-art systems. They are also able to choose to construct and work with software packages, which solve analytical expressions, analyze space flight data in image forms, and manipulate large databases. A portion of their experience involves attending weekly seminars given by the faculty/staff, writing up their work in a report for their mentor (which may be publishable), and presenting their report orally to the students and staff.Intellectual Merit:The intellectual merit of this proposed program is contained in the actual accomplishment of research work that is produced. Some of the projects have or will directly result in journal publications or presentations at scientific meetings.Broader Impacts:Beyond this the broader impact is inherent in the fundamental purpose of the REU program, which is to engender interest and research experience in the atmospheric and space sciences in students who might pursue these areas as a career. In this regard we have made special efforts and have been reasonably successful in attracting both women and underrepresented minorities to these fields of physical science. Furthermore in recent years nearly one summer REU student per year has returned a year or two later as an incoming graduate student in our own M.S., M.Eng., or Ph.D. programs.