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，与国家海洋和大气管理局合作遥感科学与技术中心(NOAA-CREST)财团的教师导师一起开展密集、协作的卫星和地面遥感研究。纽约市立大学S分校将从23个不同校区招收10名STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)学生。在15周的时间里，这些学生将成为积极从事最先进的遥感应用的研究学者社区的一部分。他们将参加研究小组会议、研讨会、在地方、地区和国家会议上的口头和海报演示，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，许多不被充分代表的少数民族学生可以选择沿着STEM的道路进入STEM研究生教育或从事STEM职业生涯。该项目将为有前途的本科生提供与科学家和工程师合作的机会，并在我国卫星和地面遥感领域的顶级科学中心之一进行研究。遥感是一个极其重要的、独特的、年轻的科学领域，CUNY的许多本科生(如果不是大多数的话)几乎都不知道这一领域。项目活动将长达一年的研究经验与有重点的、多层面/分层的指导相结合，以及一个强大的学习社区，为参与的学生的科学和学术成长和发展提供整体和引人入胜的刺激。这个项目的科学和教育价值主要来自两个来源：1)专注于将学习从科学和数学转移到技术、计算机系统和工程应用，其中所学到的基本原理特别是自然科学和数学课程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。即使是那些选择了其他职业的学生，通过对科学的重要性有了更深的理解，也会对自己和我们的社会都有很大的好处。伦理部分将对参与者具有终生意义，无论他们未来的努力是什么：他们将参与应对当今和未来科学技术带来的最紧迫的伦理挑战。此外，该项目将允许本科生研究人员通过在纽约市公立学校系统中担任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接触，他们拥有共同的探究和正直的智力价值观。

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.