AMS Climate Studies: Fostering Climate Science Literacy and Promoting Minority Participation in the Geosciences (Track 2)

美国气象学会（AMS）教育计划与美国学院和大学校长气候承诺（ACUPCC）的管理员Second Nature合作，在五年内在100个少数民族服务机构（MSIs）实施AMS气候研究课程。 该项目的重点是介绍和加强作为ACUPCC签署国和/或路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）成员的MSI的地球科学组成部分。 在项目的前四年，AMS每年为大约25名MSI教职员工举办为期一周的AMS气候研究课程实施研讨会。 该研讨会利用了来自NOAA、NASA戈达德航天飞行中心、马里兰州大学、霍华德大学、乔治梅森大学和其他当地气候教育和研究机构的科学家的气候专门知识。 教师参与者沉浸在课程材料中，接受高级演讲者的演讲，并接受培训，成为当地机构的变革推动者。 研讨会后，教师将在当地校园工作，以扩大地球科学课程，从而从内部带来变化。他们将在参加研讨会后的一年内提供AMS气候研究作为入门地球科学课程，并鼓励实施AMS天气研究和AMS海洋研究课程。 AMS正在与教师进行后续会议，因为他们致力于机构地球科学课程的变化。 该项目的主要成果将是一个庞大的教师网络，这些教师经过培训，成为其机构的变革推动者，在MSI内持续提供AMS本科课程，并将数千名MSI学生介绍给地球科学。

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Education Program is partnering with Second Nature, administrator of the American College and University President's Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), to implement the AMS Climate Studies course at 100 minority-serving institutions (MSIs) over a five-year period. This project focuses on introducing and enhancing geoscience components of MSIs that are ACUPCC signatories and/or members of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP). During the first four years of the project, AMS is conducting a weeklong AMS Climate Studies course implementation workshop for about 25 MSI faculty members per year. This workshop leverages the climate expertise of scientists from NOAA, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Maryland, Howard University, George Mason University and other local climate educational and research institutions. Faculty participants are immersed in the course materials, receive presentations from high-level speakers, and are trained as change agents for their local institutions. Following the workshop, the faculty will work on their local campuses to expand geoscience curricula, thereby bringing change from within. They will offer AMS Climate Studies as an introductory geoscience course in the year following workshop attendance, and be encouraged to implement the AMS Weather Studies and AMS Ocean Studies courses. AMS is conducting follow-up meetings with faculty as they work toward institutional geoscience curricula change. The major outcomes of this project will be a large network of faculty trained to be change agents in their institutions, sustained offering of AMS undergraduate courses within MSIs, and the introduction of thousands of MSI students to the geosciences.