REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CREST_2

该项目旨在继续为本科生提供机会，与来自国家海洋和大气管理局合作遥感科学与技术中心（NOAA-CREST）联盟的教师导师进行密集的合作卫星和地面遥感研究。10名STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）学生将从纽约城市大学（CUNY）的23个校区招募。在15周的时间里，这些学生将成为积极从事最先进遥感应用的研究学者社区的一部分。他们将在地方、区域和国家会议上参加研究小组会议、研讨会、口头和海报报告，其中两人将横渡大西洋前往西非，进行现场遥感研究。通过这些独特和创新的努力，许多未被充分代表的少数民族学生可能不会完全接受STEM教育，或者不会继续接受STEM教育直到研究生阶段，他们可以选择遵循STEM途径接受研究生教育或从事STEM职业。该项目将为有前途的本科生提供与科学家和工程师一起工作的机会，并在我国卫星和地面遥感领域的首要科学中心之一进行研究。遥感是一门极其重要、独特而又年轻的科学领域，对许多（如果不是大多数的话）纽约市立大学的本科生来说，它实际上是未知的。项目活动结合了长达一年的研究经验，集中，多维/分层的指导，以及一个强大的学习社区，为参与学生的科学和学术成长和发展提供全面和引人入胜的刺激。该项目的科学和教育价值主要来自两个方面：1)侧重于将科学和数学知识转移到技术、计算机系统和工程应用中，将在自然科学和数学课程中学到的基本原理应用于现实世界的问题；2) NOAA-CREST研究人员的科学、数学和工程专业知识，他们都是专业活跃的学者。更广泛的影响参加这个项目的学生将成为我们国家未来的工程师和科学家。即使是那些选择其他职业的学生，也会因为对科学的重要性有更深的理解而大大有利于他们自己和我们的社会。伦理部分将与参与者终生相关，无论他们未来的努力是什么：他们将参与当今和未来科学技术提出的最紧迫的伦理挑战。此外，该项目将允许本科研究人员通过担任纽约市公立学校系统K - 12学生的研究导师来磨练他们获得的技能和知识。参与者将与来自不同学科和不同机构的科学家进行接触，他们在探究和诚信方面有着共同的知识价值观。

This project seeks to continue to provide undergraduate students an opportunity to conduct intensive, collaborative satellite and ground-based remote sensing research with faculty mentors from within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (NOAA-CREST) consortium. Ten STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) students will be recruited from City University of New York (CUNY)'s 23 separate campuses. For fifteen weeks, these students will become part of a community of research scholars who are actively engaged in state-of-the-art remote sensing applications. They will participate in research group meetings, seminars, oral and poster presentations at local, regional, and national conferences, and two of them will sail across the Atlantic Ocean to West Africa, conducting in situ remote sensing research. Through these unique and innovative endeavors, many underrepresented minority students who would otherwise not pursue STEM education altogether or would not pursue STEM education through to the graduate level can choose to follow STEM pathways to either graduate education or careers in STEM.Intellectual merit The project will provide promising undergraduate students the opportunity to work with scientists and engineers and conduct research at one of our nation's premier scientific center in the area of Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing is a critically important, unique, and young area of science, and it is practically unknown to many, if not most, of the undergraduates at CUNY. The project activities combine year long research experiences with focused, multidimensional/layered mentoring, and a robust learning community that produce holistic and engaging stimuli for the scientific and academic growth and development of the participated students. The scientific and educational value of this project derives from two main sources: 1) a focus on the transfer of learning from sciences and mathematics to technology, computer systems and engineering applications where fundamental principles learned in particular natural sciences and mathematics courses are applied to real-world problems; and 2) the scientific, mathematical, and engineering expertise of the NOAA-CREST researchers, all of whom are professionally active scholars.Broader impacts The students participating in this program will become the future engineers and scientists of our nation. Even those students who choose other careers will greatly benefit both themselves and our society by having a deeper understanding of the importance of the science. The ethics component will have lifelong relevance to participants no matter what their future endeavors: they will have engaged with the most pressing ethical challenges presented by science and technology today and in the future. Moreover, the project will allow the undergraduate researchers to hone their acquired skills and knowledge by being research mentors to K - 12 students in the New York City Public school system. Participants will have engaged with scientists from different disciplines and different institutions who share common intellectual values of inquiry and integrity.