EAGER: Educational Contributions to the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign

EAGER：对深对流云和化学 (DC3) 实地活动的教育贡献

• 批准号: 1212279
• 负责人: Gretchen Mullendore
• 金额: $ 8.78万
• 依托单位: University of North Dakota Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-15 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1212279&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Educational; Contributions; Deep; Convective

The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field campaign to be conducted May-June 2012 is a multi-regional, multi-platform effort to determine the impact of deep midlatitude continental convective clouds and their intrinsic dynamical, microphysical, and electrification processes upon upper tropospheric composition and chemistry. This award will support direct participation of University of North Dakota (UND) undergraduate and graduate students in DC3 via three mechanisms: (1) Development and delivery of a special winter/spring on-campus course addressing the scientific objectives, instrumentation and forecasting needs for the multi-regional field campaign; (2) a follow-on internship-for-credit activity n which students will produce mock forecasts for the campaign and monitor daily forecast and scientific discussions; and (3) direct participation of a select number of students in the field campaign effort for the northern Alabama subregion, to be based at the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH).The intellectual merit of this effort derives from support of substantive exchanges between an early-career PI and her students with other NSF-supported investigators on multidisciplinary topics involving the interface of convective-scale meteorological processes and atmospheric chemistry, as well as through contributions to the collection of field datasets required to meet DC3 project goals.Broader impacts will relate primarily to education of graduate and undergraduate students in the dynamic arena of field data collection-driven science, with an eye toward improved retention of underrepresented groups in the sciences such as women and Native Americans. Methodologies for development of both the class and internship model will be documented and assessed in order to facilitate similar experiences, both at UND and other institutions, as well as through dissemination of outcomes via a peer-reviewed publication and associated conference presentation to be made by students involved in this effort. Collaborations between UND faculty and other DC3-involved investigators and institutions will also be strengthened.

深层对流云和化学（DC3）野外活动将于2012年5月至6月进行，是一项多区域、多平台的工作，旨在确定深层中纬度大陆对流云及其内在动力学、微物理和电气化过程对对流层上层成分和化学的影响。该奖项将通过三种机制支持北达科他州大学（UND）本科生和研究生直接参与DC3:(1)开发和交付一门特殊的冬季/春季校园课程，解决多区域实地活动的科学目标、仪器和预测需求；(2)后续的学分实习活动，学生将对活动进行模拟预测，并监督日常预测和科学讨论；(3)在阿拉巴马大学亨茨维尔分校（UAH）直接参与阿拉巴马州北部分区域的实地活动。这项工作的智力价值来自于早期职业PI和她的学生与其他nsf支持的多学科研究人员之间的实质性交流，涉及对流尺度气象过程和大气化学的界面，以及通过对满足DC3项目目标所需的现场数据集的收集的贡献。更广泛的影响将主要涉及在实地数据收集驱动的科学动态领域对研究生和本科生的教育，并着眼于改善对科学领域中代表性不足的群体的保留，如妇女和印第安人。将记录和评价发展课堂和实习模式的方法，以便促进在开发计划署和其他机构的类似经验，并通过一份同行审查的出版物和参与这项工作的学生在有关会议上的发言传播结果。也将加强联合国开发计划署教员与其他dc3参与的调查人员和机构之间的合作。