REU Site: Program in Climate and Space Science Observation (PICASSO) at the University of Michigan

这个研究经验的本科生（REU）在密歇根大学，安阿伯网站将提供七名学生，每年，与动手接触这种混合（观察，建模）的方法来科学调查。 这些学生将有机会：（a）设计和实施导师指导的研究项目，（B）参加一系列专业发展活动，（c）发展向同龄人和公众传播科学和研究成果的技能，（d）向教师和研究生学习选择，申请和成功进入研究生院的细微差别，以及（e）对STEM领域职业生涯的许多方面有更好的全面理解。 学生将在夏季研讨会结束时展示他们的研究成果，并将获得财政支持，参加并在夏季课程完成后的专业会议上展示他们的工作。这个REU网站将寻求吸引来自STEM学科通常代表性不足的群体的学生参与广泛的大气和空间科学学科的研究，包括气候科学和适应规划，大气-生物圈相互作用，气溶胶和大气化学，空气质量，天基遥感，空间天气和行星大气。要提高我们对大气和空间科学的认识，就必须同时利用地面和空间观测。 除了提供对许多复杂的环境过程和趋势的见解外，这些观测还可用于评估区域/全球气候模型，生态系统级模型和空间天气模型的性能，其中每一个都代表了我们对这些过程的最佳理论描述。 这些观测和模型被用于以多种方式保护人类健康和福祉，从帮助制定适应战略以在不断变化的气候中保护社区基础设施，到预测太阳风暴与我们大气相互作用的时间和强度，这有可能影响通信和我们国家的电网。 通过向学生介绍测量设计，质量保证和控制，数据分析和演示，模型开发和评估以及科学不确定性的评估和沟通等主题，该项目将寻求培养科学和道德上负责任的未来科学家，同时提高这些学生继续参与STEM领域的整体自我效能。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor will provide seven students, annually, with a hands-on exposure to this hybrid (observation, modeling) approach to scientific investigation. These students will have the opportunity to: (a) design and carry out a mentor-guided research project, (b) participate in a series of professional development activities, (c) develop skills in communicating science and research results to their peers and the general public, (d) learn from faculty and graduate students about the nuances of selecting, applying to, and succeeding in graduate school, and (e) develop a better overall understanding of the many facets of a career in STEM fields. Students will present their research results at an end of summer symposium, and will receive financial support to attend and present their work at a professional conference following the completion of the summer program. This REU site will seek to engage students from groups typically underrepresented in STEM disciplines in research from a broad range of atmospheric and space science disciplines, including climate science and adaptation planning, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, aerosols and atmospheric chemistry, air quality, space-based remote sensing, space-weather and planetary atmospheres. Improvements in our understanding of the atmospheric and space sciences rely on the use of both ground- and space-based observations. In addition to providing insights into many complex environmental processes and trends, these observations can also be used to evaluate the performance of regional/global climate models, ecosystem-level models, and space weather models, each of which represent our best theoretical descriptions of these processes. These observations and models are used to protect human health and welfare in a number of ways, ranging from aiding in the development of adaptation strategies to protect community infrastructure in a changing climate, to allowing for the prediction of the timing and intensity of solar storm interactions with our atmosphere, which have the potential to impact communications and our nation's power grid. Through the introduction of the students to topics such as measurement design, quality assurance and control, data analysis and presentation, model development and evaluation, and assessment and communication of scientific uncertainties, this project will seek to produce scientifically and ethically responsible future scientists, while improving the overall self-efficacy of these students regarding their continued participation in STEM fields.