Increasing Geoscience Student Participation and Careers at Minority Institutions (IGSP): A Collaboration Among Minority Institutions --Track 2

休斯顿市中心大学（UHD），Medgar Evers College-CUNY（MEC），Hamilton-Sunstrand/NASA（HS）和南卡罗来纳州州立大学（SCSU）之间的合作重点是通过使用气球科学仪器和研究向STEM学科中代表性不足的学生介绍环境大气遥感。 与研究有关的活动将被纳入教育部和UHD现有的或专门开发的课程，对流层臭氧的区域调查将在UHD、SCSU和教育部进行。每年每个机构至少有6名学生参与。 该项目建立在MEC在NASA支持下开发的专业知识基础上。 参加该计划的学生将了解开发和部署遥感仪器及其在大气研究中的应用的各个方面。臭氧廓线有助于为美国宇航局的光环使命提供验证数据，以监测对流层下部臭氧的分布和传输。有了OEDG轨道2资金，PI将向其他少数民族服务机构合作伙伴传播PionSat计划的有效战略。 MEC教师将帮助合作机构建立这些计划，每年在为期一周的夏季研讨会期间提供培训。 所有参与的学生都将被要求参加K-12学校的外展计划和社区活动。 作为推广活动的一部分，将从K-12学校发射一些臭氧探测器飞行。通过校园LSAMP计划支持的学生将被招募参加campionSat项目。

This collaboration between the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), Medgar Evers College-CUNY (MEC), Hamilton-Sunstrand/NASA (HS), and South Carolina State University (SCSU) is focused on introducing environmental atmospheric remote sensing to students underrepresented in STEM disciplines through the use of balloon science instrumentation and research. Research related activities will be integrated into existing or specially developed courses at MEC and UHD and regional investigations of tropospheric ozone will be conducted at UHD, SCSU, and MEC. A minimum of 6 students will be involved at each institution per year. This project builds on expertise developed at MEC with NASA support. Students participating in the BalloonSat program learn about all aspects of developing and deploying remote sensing instrumentation and its application to atmospheric research. Ozone profiles help provide validation data for NASA's Aura mission to monitor the distribution and transport of ozone in the lower troposphere. With OEDG Track 2 funding, the PIs will disseminate the BalloonSat program's effective strategies to other minority-serving institution partners. MEC faculty will help the partner institutions to establish these programs by providing training during a 1-week summer workshop each year. All participating students will be required to participate in an outreach program to K-12 schools and at community events. Some ozonesonde flights will be launched from K-12 schools as part of the outreach. Students supported through campus LSAMP programs will be recruited to participate in the BalloonSat project.