Increasing Geoscience Student Participation and Careers at Minority Institutions (IGSP): A Collaboration Among Minority Institutions --Track 2

休斯顿大学市中心分校(UHD)、纽约市立大学麦加·埃弗斯学院(MEC)、汉密尔顿-桑斯特兰德/美国国家航空航天局(HS)和南卡罗来纳州立大学(SCSU)之间的这项合作重点是通过使用气球科学仪器和研究向STEM学科中代表性不足的学生介绍环境大气遥感。与研究有关的活动将纳入MEC和UHD现有的或特别开发的课程，并将在UHD、SCSU和MEC进行对流层臭氧的区域调查。每所院校每年至少有6名学生参与。该项目建立在MEC在NASA支持下开发的专业知识的基础上。参加气球卫星项目的学生学习开发和部署遥感仪器及其在大气研究中的应用的方方面面。臭氧剖面图有助于为NASA的Aura任务提供验证数据，以监测对流层低层臭氧的分布和输送。在OEDG Track 2的资助下，PIS将向其他为少数族裔服务的机构合作伙伴传播气球卫星计划的有效战略。MEC教职员工将在每年为期一周的暑期研讨会期间提供培训，帮助合作机构建立这些项目。所有参与的学生将被要求参加K-12学校的外展计划和社区活动。作为外联活动的一部分，K-12学校将推出一些臭氧探测航班。通过校园LSAMP计划支持的学生将被招募参加气球卫星项目。

This collaboration between the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), Medgar Evers College-CUNY (MEC), Hamilton-Sunstrand/NASA (HS), and South Carolina State University (SCSU) is focused on introducing environmental atmospheric remote sensing to students underrepresented in STEM disciplines through the use of balloon science instrumentation and research. Research related activities will be integrated into existing or specially developed courses at MEC and UHD and regional investigations of tropospheric ozone will be conducted at UHD, SCSU, and MEC. A minimum of 6 students will be involved at each institution per year. This project builds on expertise developed at MEC with NASA support. Students participating in the BalloonSat program learn about all aspects of developing and deploying remote sensing instrumentation and its application to atmospheric research. Ozone profiles help provide validation data for NASA's Aura mission to monitor the distribution and transport of ozone in the lower troposphere. With OEDG Track 2 funding, the PIs will disseminate the BalloonSat program's effective strategies to other minority-serving institution partners. MEC faculty will help the partner institutions to establish these programs by providing training during a 1-week summer workshop each year. All participating students will be required to participate in an outreach program to K-12 schools and at community events. Some ozonesonde flights will be launched from K-12 schools as part of the outreach. Students supported through campus LSAMP programs will be recruited to participate in the BalloonSat project.