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

EAGER：对深对流云和化学 (DC3) 实地活动的教育贡献

• 批准号: 1212279
• 负责人: Gretchen Mullendore
• 金额: $ 8.78万
• 依托单位: University of North Dakota Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-15 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1212279&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Educational; Contributions; Deep; Convective

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.

将于 2012 年 5 月至 6 月进行的深对流云和化学 (DC3) 实地活动是一项多区域、多平台的工作，旨在确定深中纬度大陆对流云及其内在动力、微物理和电气化过程对上层的影响。对流层组成和化学。 该奖项将通过三种机制支持北达科他大学 (UND) 的本科生和研究生直接参与 DC3：(1) 开发和提供特殊的冬季/春季校园课程，解决以下领域的科学目标、仪器和预测需求：多区域实地活动； (2) 后续实习学分活动，学生将为该活动制作模拟预测，并监督每日预测和科学讨论； (3) 一定数量的学生直接参与阿拉巴马州北部次区域的实地竞选工作，该活动将设在阿拉巴马大学亨茨维尔分校 (UAH)。这项工作的智力价值来自于对阿拉巴马州之间实质性交流的支持。一名职业生涯早期的 PI 和她的学生与其他 NSF 支持的研究人员一起研究涉及对流尺度气象过程和大气化学界面的多学科主题，以及通过收集满足要求的现场数据集做出贡献DC3 项目目标。更广泛的影响将主要涉及现场数据收集驱动的科学动态领域中研究生和本科生的教育，着眼于提高女性和美洲原住民等科学领域代表性不足群体的保留率。 将记录和评估课程和实习模式的开发方法，以促进联合国开发计划署和其他机构的类似经验，并通过同行评审出版物和相关会议演示来传播成果参与这项工作的学生。 UND 教师与其他 DC3 参与的研究人员和机构之间的合作也将得到加强。