REU Site: Real-World Research Experiences at the National Weather Center

通过参加国家气象中心（NWC） REU计划，60名美国本科生将在5年的时间内参加可能改变一生的研究和职业探索经历。参与者在进行前沿研究的同时，体验科学发现的乐趣，学习成为科学家的技能。每个学生与俄克拉何马-诺曼大学研究校园内的天气，气候和雷达组织的一位或多位科学家合作，进行研究并过着科学家的生活。参与者参加讲座，参加研讨会，以建立与工作相关的技能和知识，学习和实践各种研究方法，并以书面和口头形式展示他们的研究成果。往届学员的研究在基础研究和应用研究方面都有较高的认识和理解。此外，在该网站更新中，研究人员将利用教育领域不断进步的创新，在综合活动集之上，在本科阶段纳入软件开发和数据管理实践的额外技能建设。该REU站点附近的研究社区热情支持该计划，该更新将包括雷达创新实验室和中南气候科学中心的新合作伙伴，使该计划每年包括12名参与者。大多数参与者将来自很少或没有活跃STEM研究的部门。该REU将通过每年出版正式和专业的会议出版物，在个人、地方、大学、州、国家和国际层面产生更广泛的影响，同时还将制作或改进超出个人研究项目有用的数据库和工具。参与者的研究成果可用于国家气象局的培训和应急管理行动。这个REU网站的目标是1)从美国各地招募和选择有竞争力的申请者，2)通过与科学家、同行、当地研究生和REU工作人员的直接经验和互动，向参与者展示研究职业的本质，3)建立参与者进行研究能力的自我效能感，4)让参与者接触到俄克拉荷马州诺曼市及其附近的各种职业选择。5)协助每位参与者进行研究生院和职业生涯的决定；6)追踪和联络过去的参与者。学习目标将使参与者从教师（依赖）角色转变为教师（独立）角色。参与者将阅读、讨论和理解技术期刊文章，建立和使用计算机技能进行研究和演示，领导自己的研究项目（在指导下），学习和应用各种研究方法进行高质量的研究，通过同行演示、科学讲座、研讨会、学习合同和文献综述学习其他研究方法，准备一份可打印的手稿和工作摘要。以书面和口头形式向NWC社区和更广泛的科学界展示他们的研究成果。

Through participation in the National Weather Center (NWC) REU program, 60 United States undergraduate students over a 5-year period will participate in a potentially life-changing research and career exploration experience. Participants experience the joy of scientific discovery while conducting cutting-edge research and learning skills to become scientists. Each student collaborates with one or more scientists in the weather, climate, and radar organizations within the University of Oklahoma-Norman's University Research Campus to conduct research and live the life of a scientist. Participants attend lectures, participate in workshops to build skills and knowledge relevant to the job, learn and practice a variety of research methods, and present their research in both written and oral formats. Past participants' research has advanced knowledge and understanding in basic and applied research. Additionally, in this site renewal the grant investigators will leverage ever-advancing innovations in education to incorporate additional skill-building of software development and data management practices at the undergraduate level on top of the comprehensive activity set. The research community in proximity to this REU Site enthusiastically supports this program, and this renewal will include new partners in the Radar Innovations Laboratory and South Central Climate Science Center, allowing the program to include 12 participants each year. The majority of participants will come from departments with little to no active STEM research. This REU will have broader impacts at the individual, local, university, state, national, and international level through the production of formal and professional conference publications each year while also producing or improving databases and tools useful beyond the individual research projects. Participants' research results may be used for National Weather Service training and emergency management operations. The goals of this REU site are to 1) recruit and select a diverse pool of competitive applicants from across the U.S., 2) show participants the nature of a research career through direct experience and interactions with scientists, peers, local graduate students, and REU staff, 3) build participants' self-efficacy in regard to their capability to conduct research, 4) expose participants to the variety of career options found in and near Norman, Oklahoma, 5) assist each participant with graduate school and career decisions and 6) track and network past participants. The learning objectives will move participants from a pedagogical (dependent) to andragogical (independent) role. The participants will read, discuss, and comprehend technical journal articles, build and use computer skills for research and presentation, lead their own research project (with guidance), learn and apply a variety of research methods to conduct quality research, learn about additional research methods through peer presentations, scientific lectures, workshops, learning contracts, and literature reviews, prepare a print-ready manuscript and abstract on their work, present their research in written and oral formats to both the NWC community and to the broader scientific community.