REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the National Weather Center

REU 网站：国家气象中心本科生的研究经验

• 批准号: 1062932
• 负责人: Daphne LaDue
• 金额: $ 82.26万
• 依托单位: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-15 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1062932&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experiences; Undergraduates

Through participation in the National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, fifty undergraduate students over a five-year period will participate in a unique career exploration experience. Each student will collaborate with scientists to conduct research and live the life of a scientist through: attending lectures, participating in workshops to build skills and knowledge relevant to the job, learning and practicing a variety of research methods, and presenting their research in both written and oral formats. Recruitment will seek a wide range of competitive applications from undergraduate students who are capable, but have not had an opportunity to participate in research. Intellectual Merit: Participants will contribute knowledge and understanding in basic science as well as applied research. Past research results have been used for training, emergency management operations, and risk planning. This program has matured sufficiently that recent participants have produced about five conference presentations and 1-2 formal scientific publications each year. This REU program has proven to effectively nurture the next generation of scientists. A combination of individual and entrepreneurial team activities serve to build participants' metacognitive research skills and prepare them for changing career opportunities. This REU site contributes to NSF's goal to create an internationally competitive, globally engaged public, private, and academic scientific workforce. Broader Impacts: Past participants report experiencing scientific discovery while learning skills they report as invaluable to later graduate school and career experiences. The scientific workforce is more diverse because of this program, with 60 percent of prior participants being female and 10-20 percent members of racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in atmospheric sciences. Finally, this program serves to increase collaboration among the academic, public and private sectors.

通过参与国家气象中心本科生研究体验计划，50 名本科生将在五年内参与独特的职业探索体验。 每个学生将与科学家合作进行研究并过上科学家的生活：参加讲座、参加研讨会以培养与工作相关的技能和知识、学习和实践各种研究方法、以书面形式展示他们的研究成果。和口头形式。 招聘将向有能力但没有机会参与研究的本科生寻求广泛的竞争性申请。智力价值：参与者将贡献基础科学和应用研究方面的知识和理解。 过去的研究成果已用于培训、应急管理行动和风险规划。 该计划已经足够成熟，最近的参与者每年都会发表大约 5 份会议报告和 1-2 份正式科学出版物。 事实证明，REU 项目能够有效培养下一代科学家。 个人和创业团队活动的结合有助于培养参与者的元认知研究技能，并为他们应对不断变化的职业机会做好准备。 REU 站点有助于实现 NSF 的目标，即创建一支具有国际竞争力、全球参与的公共、私人和学术科学队伍。更广泛的影响：过去的参与者报告说，他们在学习技能的同时体验了科学发现，他们认为这对以后的研究生学习和职业经历非常宝贵。 由于该计划，科学队伍更加多元化，之前的参与者中有 60% 是女性，10-20% 的成员来自大气科学领域代表性不足的种族和族裔群体。 最后，该计划旨在加强学术、公共和私营部门之间的合作。