2021 REU Interns attending the American Meteorological Society Student Conference in Houston, TX
2024 Program Dates
June 3, 2024 – August 2, 2024
2019 Cohort
Why spend your summer with CSU Atmospheric Science?
We provide students with:
- a ten week research experience
- stipend of $7,000 distributed in three disbursements the end of May, June, July. These funds are considered a scholarship / fellowship and could be taxable, depending on your overall tax situation.
- subsistence funds of $700 to help with food costs
- professional development training
- roundtrip travel coverage
- furnished and paid on-campus housing
- funded travel to present at a scientific meeting
A successful candidate should:
- be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident due to funding restrictions
- have completed at least two years of college
- have completed one semester of Calculus before the start of the program
- have a GPA of 3.0 or higher
- be pursuing an undergraduate degree in atmospheric science or a related field such as meteorology, geosciences, chemistry, computer science, earth science, engineering, environmental science, mathematics or physics
- be considering a career in atmospheric science or related field
- be graduating no sooner than December 2023
Research Areas
The REU Site in Earth System Science covers a broad range of research areas, which include, but are not limited to the following:
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Climate and climate modeling
- Climate and atmosphere-ocean dynamics
- Cloud physics
- Environmental health and air quality
- Land-ocean-atmosphere interactions
- Mesoscale meteorology
- Ocean-atmosphere coupled feedbacks
- Remote sensing
- Tropical meteorology
- Machine learning and data science
- Societal impacts of weather and climate
- Data assimilation
Professional Development Activities:
- Weekly science seminars by faculty at CSU and other institutions
- Cross-disciplinary science communication
- Recognizing and addressing implicit biases in Earth System Science
- Visits to local and national research facilities
- Applying to Graduate School