REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CESSRST--Enhanced Engagement

这个REU站点将为来自社区学院和四年制大学的本科生提供一个机会，在该领域专家的指导下进行全日制、合作性的卫星和地面遥感研究。每年，10名STEM学生（5名来自社区学院，5名来自四年制大学）将从纽约市立大学（CUNY）的23所校园机构中招收。在15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。他们将在地方、区域、国家会议和公民科学合作中参加研究小组会议、研讨会、口头和海报展示。特别是，他们将在纽约布鲁克林的贝德福德-史岱文森社区进行基础和前沿的、社区规模的、多平台的城市热岛研究，这是一个当地的、环保的、但科学服务不足的社区。参与这些活动将使来自两年制和四年制院校的有前途的本科生有机会与科学家和工程师一起工作，并在全国首屈一指的卫星和地面遥感科学中心之一进行研究。卫星和地面遥感是一个非常重要的、独特的、年轻的科学领域，对于大多数城市大学的本科生来说，它实际上是未知的。这些活动将为期一年的（夏季、秋季、冬季和春季）研究经验与多维/分层指导、学术支持系统和强大的学习社区相结合，为学生参与者的科学和学术成长和发展提供全面和引人入胜的刺激。这些活动将允许本科研究人员通过成为纽约市公立学校系统中学生的研究导师和当地社区成员的公民科学促进者来磨练他们获得的技能和知识。该计划的科学和教育价值主要来自两个方面：1)专注于从科学和数学向技术、计算机系统和工程应用的学习转移，其中在特定自然科学和数学课程中学习的基本原理应用于现实世界的问题；2)NOAA-CESSRST和ReSESS （REU站点）研究科学家的科学、数学和工程专业知识，他们都是专业活跃的学者，在REU站点进行研究并指导学生。REU站点的研究重点是应用卫星和地面遥感技术研究大气、水圈、生物圈、岩石圈和冰冻圈。总体而言，该站点进行最先进的卫星和地面遥感、地面现场测量、数据处理和分析、建模和预测、卫星算法开发以及卫星产品的校准和验证。这些活动支撑了REU站点在沿海水域遥感、中大气遥感、高光谱遥感、对流层遥感、临近预报、植被和土壤湿度、积雪、雪深、海冰、水资源和飓风等众多其他研究领域的研究工作，包括城市气候、气候变化和城市热岛效应。REU学生将参与的具体研究项目包括：使用高度计和激光雷达进行行星边界层分析，使用雷达测量产品对卫星降水估算进行地理定位校正，以及使用卫星遥感和原位应用分析城市地表温度的日循环。学生们将接受分层指导、伦理培训、GIS、python和MATLAB的迷你课程，并有机会在全国会议上展示他们的研究成果。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This REU site will provide undergraduate students from both community colleges and four-year institutions an opportunity to conduct full-time, collaborative satellite and ground-based remote sensing research under the mentorship of experts in the field. Each year, 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, national conferences, and in citizen science collaborations. Particularly, they will engage a local, environmentally active, but scientifically underserved community in fundamental and cutting-edge, neighborhood-scale, multi-platformed, urban heat island studies in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community of Brooklyn, New York. Engagement in these activities will afford promising undergraduates from two- and four-year institutions the opportunity to work with scientists and engineers and to conduct research at one of the nation’s premier scientific centers for Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing. Satellite and ground-based remote sensing is a critically important, unique, and young area of science, and it is practically unknown to most of the undergraduates at CUNY. 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. 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 citizen science enablers to members of the local community. The scientific and educational value of the program 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-CESSRST and ReSESS (REU site) research scientists, all of whom are professionally active scholars who conduct their research and mentor students at the REU site. Research at the REU site focuses on the application of satellite and ground-based remote sensing to the study of the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the biosphere, the lithosphere, and the cryosphere. Overall, the site conducts state-of-the-art satellite and ground-based remote sensing, ground-based field measurements, data processing and analyses, modeling and forecasting, satellite algorithm development, and calibration and validation of satellite products. These activities underpin the REU site’s research endeavors in Coastal Water Remote Sensing, Middle Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, Tropospheric Remote Sensing, Nowcasting, Vegetation and Soil Moisture, Snow Cover, Snow Depth, Sea-Ice, Water Resources, and Hurricanes among a plethora of other research areas that includes urban climate, climate change, and the urban heat island effect. Among the specific research projects that REU students will participate in are: Planetary Boundary Layer Analyses using Ceilometers and Lidars, Geolocation Correction of Satellite Precipitation Estimates Using a Radar-Gauge Product, and Analyzing the Diurnal Cycle of Urban Land Surface Temperature using Satellite Remote Sensing and in-situ Applications. Students will receive tiered-mentoring, training in ethics, mini courses in GIS, python and MATLAB, and an opportunity to present their research at a national conference.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.