EAGER: Educational Contributions to the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign

将于2012年5月至6月开展的深对流云和化学(DC3)野外活动是一项多区域、多平台的工作，旨在确定中纬度大陆深对流云及其内在的动力、微物理和带电过程对对流层高层组成和化学的影响。该奖项将通过三个机制支持北达科他大学(UND)本科生和研究生直接参与DC3：(1)开发和提供一门特别的冬季/春季校园课程，解决多区域实地活动的科学目标、仪器和预报需求；(2)后续实习学分活动，学生将为活动制作模拟预报，并监测日常预报和科学讨论；和(3)在阿拉巴马大学亨茨维尔分校(UAH)为阿拉巴马州北部次区域的实地活动中直接参与选定数量的学生。这一努力的智力价值来自于支持职业早期的PI和她的学生与其他NSF支持的研究人员在涉及对流尺度气象过程和大气化学的界面的多学科主题上的实质性交流，以及通过对实现DC3项目目标所需的现场数据集的收集做出贡献。更广泛的影响将主要涉及在现场数据收集驱动的科学的动态舞台上对研究生和本科生的教育，着眼于改善保留科学界代表性不足的群体，如妇女和美洲原住民。将对班级和实习模式的发展方法进行记录和评估，以便在联合国开发计划署和其他机构促进类似的经验，并通过同行评议的出版物和参与这项工作的学生所作的相关会议发言来传播结果。联合国开发计划署教职员工与其他参与DC3的调查人员和机构之间的合作也将得到加强。

The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field campaign to be conducted May-June 2012 is a multi-regional, multi-platform effort to determine the impact of deep midlatitude continental convective clouds and their intrinsic dynamical, microphysical, and electrification processes upon upper tropospheric composition and chemistry. This award will support direct participation of University of North Dakota (UND) undergraduate and graduate students in DC3 via three mechanisms: (1) Development and delivery of a special winter/spring on-campus course addressing the scientific objectives, instrumentation and forecasting needs for the multi-regional field campaign; (2) a follow-on internship-for-credit activity n which students will produce mock forecasts for the campaign and monitor daily forecast and scientific discussions; and (3) direct participation of a select number of students in the field campaign effort for the northern Alabama subregion, to be based at the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH).The intellectual merit of this effort derives from support of substantive exchanges between an early-career PI and her students with other NSF-supported investigators on multidisciplinary topics involving the interface of convective-scale meteorological processes and atmospheric chemistry, as well as through contributions to the collection of field datasets required to meet DC3 project goals.Broader impacts will relate primarily to education of graduate and undergraduate students in the dynamic arena of field data collection-driven science, with an eye toward improved retention of underrepresented groups in the sciences such as women and Native Americans. Methodologies for development of both the class and internship model will be documented and assessed in order to facilitate similar experiences, both at UND and other institutions, as well as through dissemination of outcomes via a peer-reviewed publication and associated conference presentation to be made by students involved in this effort. Collaborations between UND faculty and other DC3-involved investigators and institutions will also be strengthened.