AMS Climate Studies: Fostering Climate Science Literacy and Promoting Minority Participation in the Geosciences (Track 2)

美国气象学会(AMS)教育项目正在与美国学院和大学校长气候承诺(ACUPCC)的管理人Second Nature合作，在五年内在100所少数族裔服务机构(MSI)实施AMS气候研究课程。该项目的重点是介绍和加强作为ACUPCC签署方和/或Louis Stokes少数群体参与联盟(LSAMP)成员的MSI的地学组成部分。在该项目的头四年，AMS每年为大约25名MSI教员举办为期一周的AMS气候研究课程实施研讨会。这次研讨会利用了来自NOAA、NASA戈达德太空飞行中心、马里兰大学、霍华德大学、乔治梅森大学和其他当地气候教育和研究机构的科学家的气候专业知识。教师学员沉浸在课程材料中，接受高级演讲者的演讲，并接受当地机构的变革推动者培训。研讨会结束后，教职员工将在当地校园努力扩大地球科学课程，从而从内部带来变化。他们将在参加研讨会后的下一年提供AMS气候研究作为地球科学入门课程，并被鼓励实施AMS天气研究和AMS海洋研究课程。AMS正在与教职员工举行后续会议，以推动机构地球科学课程的改革。该项目的主要成果将是建立一个庞大的教师网络，培训他们的机构成为变革的推动者，在MSI内持续提供AMS本科生课程，并向数千名MSI学生介绍地球科学。

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Education Program is partnering with Second Nature, administrator of the American College and University President's Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), to implement the AMS Climate Studies course at 100 minority-serving institutions (MSIs) over a five-year period. This project focuses on introducing and enhancing geoscience components of MSIs that are ACUPCC signatories and/or members of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP). During the first four years of the project, AMS is conducting a weeklong AMS Climate Studies course implementation workshop for about 25 MSI faculty members per year. This workshop leverages the climate expertise of scientists from NOAA, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Maryland, Howard University, George Mason University and other local climate educational and research institutions. Faculty participants are immersed in the course materials, receive presentations from high-level speakers, and are trained as change agents for their local institutions. Following the workshop, the faculty will work on their local campuses to expand geoscience curricula, thereby bringing change from within. They will offer AMS Climate Studies as an introductory geoscience course in the year following workshop attendance, and be encouraged to implement the AMS Weather Studies and AMS Ocean Studies courses. AMS is conducting follow-up meetings with faculty as they work toward institutional geoscience curricula change. The major outcomes of this project will be a large network of faculty trained to be change agents in their institutions, sustained offering of AMS undergraduate courses within MSIs, and the introduction of thousands of MSI students to the geosciences.