REU Site: Weather, Climate and Society: An Interdisciplinary Approach Integrating Physical and Social Sciences

这个天气，气候和社会（WCS） REU项目由南佛罗里达大学（USF）主办，旨在培养下一代本科生（UGs）从事STEM领域，并成为未来成功的研究生和研究人员。REU将通过招募主要来自非研究机构的参与者来扩大代表性不足群体的参与，包括当地的西班牙裔服务机构和历史上的黑人学院和大学。这个REU项目以高二学生为重点，吸引学生在职业生涯的早期进入STEM学科。研究项目将探索一系列问题，从影响飓风疏散决策的社会和物理因素，到评估沿海地区对海平面上升的社会、经济和环境脆弱性，以及制定适应和减轻海平面上升影响的战略。每个项目都有可能直接惠及佛罗里达州中西部社区，以及其他受极端天气影响地区的易受灾害影响的社区。南佛罗里达大学的WCS REU将成为跨学科研究的典范。该项目由一个跨学科的导师小组组成，旨在实现以下目标：1)每年为10名本科生提供密集的研究经验，重点关注代表性不足的群体；2)为参与者提供研究经验，以帮助他们进入STEM UG专业，特别是大气科学或相关学科，以及研究生课程；3)通过指导研究、体验式学习、专业发展讲习班、提供与国内和国际科学家互动的远程研讨会、社会和物理研究技术培训以及关于社会和物理方面以及恶劣天气和气候及相关灾害影响的跨学科观点等方案，促进参与者的技能发展；4)提高对处理科学数据和交流结果相关伦理问题的意识；5)为UGs提供一个指导网络，在他们的整个职业生涯中为他们提供支持。学生将接触到定性、定量和混合方法，方法和工具，如地理信息系统（GIS），并在指导的研究项目中使用他们获得的技能。NSF REU UGs将与其他学生组成一个团队，由物理和社会科学学科的教师共同指导。学生将参与一个项目，从构思到展示和传播结果。因此，UGs将参与研究的各个方面，包括实地工作，实验室样品处理和数据分析，以及手稿准备。

This Weather, Climate, and Society (WCS) REU program hosted by the University of South Florida (USF) is designed to prepare the next generation of undergraduates (UGs) to pursue STEM fields and become successful future graduate students and researchers. The REU will broaden participation of underrepresented groups by recruiting participants primarily from non-research institutions, including local Hispanic Serving Institutions and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Focusing on rising sophomores, this REU program draws students into the STEM disciplines early in their career. Research projects will explore a range of issues from social and physical factors which affect hurricane evacuation decision making, to assessing the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of coastal regions to sea level rise, and developing strategies to adapt and mitigate sea level rise impacts. Each project will have the potential to directly benefit the west central Florida community, as well as disaster-vulnerable communities in other extreme weather¬ affected areas. USF's WCS REU will become a model for interdisciplinary-based research. The program, which draws from an interdisciplinary panel of mentors, is designed to achieve these objectives: 1) Deliver an intensive research experience for 10 undergraduates/year with an emphasis on under-represented groups; 2) Provide participants with research experiences to aid their recruitment into a STEM UG major, particularly the atmospheric sciences or a related discipline, and graduate programs; 3) Promote participants' skill development through a program of mentored research, experiential learning, professional development workshops, remote seminars that offer interaction with national and international scientists, trainings in social and physical research techniques and interdisciplinary perspectives on social and physical aspects, and impacts of, severe weather and climate and related disasters; 4) Increase awareness of ethical issues related to working with scientific data and communicating the results; and 5) Provide UGs access to a mentoring network that will support them throughout their career. Students will receive exposure to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches, and tools such as geographic information systems (GIS), and use their acquired skills on mentored research projects. The NSF REU UGs will work in a team with other students, being co-mentored by faculty in both the physical and social science disciplines. Students will participate in a project from conception to presentation and dissemination of results. UGs will therefore be involved in all aspects of research, including field work, sample processing in the laboratory and data analysis, and manuscript preparation.