REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CREST: Expanded Opportunities2

该项目旨在继续为本科生（社区学院和四年制学生）提供机会，与来自NOAA-CREST地球系统科学和遥感技术中心及其遥感和地球系统科学中心的教师导师一起进行全职的卫星和地面遥感合作研究。这个以前资助的REU网站现在有一个新测试的社区学院组成部分。将从纽约（CUNY）的23个校园机构中招募十（10）名STEM学生（五名来自社区学院，五名来自四年制机构）。在十五周的时间里，这些学生将成为积极从事最先进的遥感研究和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，口头和海报展示在地方，区域和国家会议，其中一个团队将参与公民科学的参与当地，环境活跃，但科学服务不足的社区在基本的，国家的最先进的，邻里规模，多平台，城市热岛研究在布鲁克林，纽约的贝德福德-斯图文森社区。这些活动结合了联合收割机长达一年（夏季，秋季，冬季和春季）的研究经验，多维/分层辅导，学术支持系统，以及一个强大的学习社区，为学生参与者的科学和学术成长和发展提供全面和吸引人的刺激。此外，这些活动将使本科研究人员能够通过担任纽约市公立学校系统高中生和当地社区成员的研究导师来磨练他们所获得的技能和知识。 REU网站有六个目标：1。通过该领域专家的指导，让不同的本科生群体参与协作，最先进的卫星和地基遥感研究，2。为了创建和维持一个社区和一个学者管道，其中在STEM中取得学术卓越，并鼓励追求学士学位，高级学位和STEM职业，3。为学生提供在研究丰富的环境中取得成功所需的工具，信心和成熟度，并培养他们的沟通（口头和书面）和演讲技巧。为学生创造机会，通过与社区居民合作并分享他们的城市热岛研究成果，使他们有意义地参与公民科学，这些结果对社区居民至关重要。培养学生在道德和负责任的研究行为，以及科学和技术应用在社会中的道德影响，并为学生提供机会，成为促进本科生研究的同行大使，六、为了扩大REU机会的影响，包括学生对其他资金在队列和专业发展活动。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

This project seeks to continue to provide undergraduate students (community college and four-year students) an opportunity to conduct full-time, collaborative satellite and ground-based remote sensing research with faculty mentors from within NOAA-CREST’s Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies and its Center for Remote Sensing and Earth System Sciences. This previously funded REU site now has a newly tested community college component. Ten (10) STEM students (five from community colleges and five from four-year institutions) will be recruited from the City University of New York’s (CUNY) 23 campus-wide institutions. 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 research and applications. They will participate in research group meetings, seminars, oral and poster presentations at local, regional, and national conferences, and one team of them will participate in citizen science by engaging a local, environmentally active, but scientifically underserved community in basic, state-of-the-art, neighborhood-scale, multi-platformed, urban heat island studies in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community of Brooklyn, New York. The activities combine year-long (Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring) research experiences with multidimensional/layered mentoring, academic support systems, and a robust learning community that produce holistic and engaging stimuli for the scientific and academic growth and development of the student participants. Moreover, the activities will allow the undergraduate researchers to hone their acquired skills and knowledge by being research mentors to high school students in the New York City public school system and to members of the local community. The REU site has six objectives: 1.) To engage a diverse cohort of undergraduates in collaborative, state-of-the-art satellite and ground-based remote sensing research through mentorship by experts in the field, 2.) To create and sustain a community and a pipeline of scholars among whom academic excellence in STEM is achieved and the pursuit of baccalaureate degrees, advanced degrees, and STEM careers is encouraged, 3.) To provide students with the tools, the confidence, and the maturity necessary to succeed in a research-rich environment and to develop their communication (oral and written) and presentation skills, 4.) To create opportunities for students to meaningfully engage in citizen science by partnering with and sharing their urban heat island research results with community residents for whom such results are critically vital, 5.) To train students in the ethical and responsible conduct of research as well as the ethical implications of scientific and technological applications in society and to provide opportunities for students to be peer ambassadors who promote undergraduate research, 6) To broaden the impacts of the REU opportunity by including students on other funding in the cohort and professional development activities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.