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

2012年5月至6月进行的深对流云和化学（DC 3）实地活动是一项多区域、多平台的努力，旨在确定深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部组成和化学的影响。 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DC 3：（1）开发和提供一个特殊的冬季/春季校园课程，解决多区域实地活动的科学目标，仪器和预报需求;（2）后续的学分实习活动，学生将为运动制作模拟预报，并监测每日预报和科学讨论;以及（3）选择一定数量的学生直接参与北方亚拉巴马次区域的实地活动，这一努力的智力价值来自于对早期-职业PI和她的学生与其他NSF支持的研究人员在涉及对流尺度气象过程和大气化学的接口的多学科主题，更广泛的影响将主要涉及研究生和本科生的教育，现场数据收集驱动的科学的动态竞技场，着眼于改善科学中代表性不足的群体，如妇女和美洲土著人的保留。 将记录和评估班级和实习模式的发展方法，以促进联合国大学和其他机构的类似经验，并通过同行审查的出版物和参与这项工作的学生所作的相关会议介绍传播成果。 UND教师和其他DC 3参与的调查人员和机构之间的合作也将得到加强。

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.