Online Weather Studies: Promoting Diversity and Collegial Faculty Development in Undergraduate Institutions Serving Minority Populations

在线天气研究：促进多样性和大学教师发展本科院校服务少数民族populationsThe美国气象学会（AMS）提出了一个项目，将使数以千计的本科少数民族学生谁不会有机会被介绍到气象学研究。 与美国国家气象局（NWS），伊丽莎白城州立大学地球科学系合作，NC作为广泛HBCU倡议的协调中心，全国许多其他少数民族服务机构的教师，以及备受推崇的UCAR SOARS计划，AMS建议增加大量本科生参与教育和研究的机会，该项目将通过向少数民族服务的学院和大学提供在线天气研究来实现这一目标，这是一个现有的由NSF支持的AMS开发的关于气象学基础知识的远程学习课程，加上大量的教师专业发展和学生辅导计划。 在这个项目中的教师发展具有科学和教学组成部分，沿着深入处理多样性问题，适合提供引人注目的气象学生学习经验。 高度激励性的学习经验旨在鼓励学生考虑在地球科学导致科学或地球科学教学职业的额外研究。

ABSTRACTOnline Weather Studies: Promoting Diversity and Collegial Faculty Development in Undergraduate Institutions Serving Minority PopulationsThe American Meteorological Society (AMS) proposes a project that will enable thousands of undergraduate minority students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to be introduced to studies in meteorology. In cooperation with the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), the Department of Geosciences at Elizabeth City State University, NC as focal point for a broad HBCU initiative, faculty members at numerous other minority-serving institutions across the country, and the highly regarded UCAR SOARS Program, the AMS proposes to increase access and opportunities for the educational and research participation of significant numbers of undergraduate students who are members of groups underrepresented in the geosciences.This project will attain this goal by making available to minority-serving colleges and universities Online Weather Studies, an existing NSF-supported AMS-developed distance-learning course on the basics of meteorology, coupled with substantial faculty professional development and student mentoring programs. Faculty development in this project features scientific and pedagogical components, along with in-depth treatment of diversity issues, appropriate to offering compelling meteorological student learning experiences. Highly motivational learning experiences are designed to encourage students to consider additional study in the geosciences leading to scientific or Earth science teaching careers.