REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CESSRST--Enhanced Engagement

REU 网站：NOAA-CESSRST 卫星和地基遥感本科生的研究经验——增强参与

• 批准号: 2150432
• 负责人: Reginald Blake
• 金额: $ 59.05万
• 依托单位: CUNY New York City College of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150432&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experiences; Undergraduates

This REU site will provide undergraduate students from both community colleges and four-year institutions an opportunity to conduct full-time, collaborative satellite and ground-based remote sensing research under the mentorship of experts in the field. Each year, ten (10) STEM students (five from community colleges and five from four-year institutions) will be recruited from the City University of New York’s (CUNY) 23 campus-wide institutions. For fifteen weeks, these students will become part of a community of research scholars who are actively engaged in state-of-the-art remote sensing research and applications. They will participate in research group meetings, seminars, oral and poster presentations at local, regional, national conferences, and in citizen science collaborations. Particularly, they will engage a local, environmentally active, but scientifically underserved community in fundamental and cutting-edge, neighborhood-scale, multi-platformed, urban heat island studies in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community of Brooklyn, New York. Engagement in these activities will afford promising undergraduates from two- and four-year institutions the opportunity to work with scientists and engineers and to conduct research at one of the nation’s premier scientific centers for Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing. Satellite and ground-based remote sensing is a critically important, unique, and young area of science, and it is practically unknown to most of the undergraduates at CUNY. The activities combine year-long (Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring) research experiences with multidimensional/layered mentoring, academic support systems, and a robust learning community that produce holistic and engaging stimuli for the scientific and academic growth and development of the student participants. The activities will allow the undergraduate researchers to hone their acquired skills and knowledge by being research mentors to high school students in the New York City public school system and citizen science enablers to members of the local community. The scientific and educational value of the program derives from two main sources: 1) a focus on the transfer of learning from sciences and mathematics to technology, computer systems and engineering applications where fundamental principles learned in particular natural sciences and mathematics courses are applied to real-world problems, and 2) the scientific, mathematical, and engineering expertise of the NOAA-CESSRST and ReSESS (REU site) research scientists, all of whom are professionally active scholars who conduct their research and mentor students at the REU site. Research at the REU site focuses on the application of satellite and ground-based remote sensing to the study of the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the biosphere, the lithosphere, and the cryosphere. Overall, the site conducts state-of-the-art satellite and ground-based remote sensing, ground-based field measurements, data processing and analyses, modeling and forecasting, satellite algorithm development, and calibration and validation of satellite products. These activities underpin the REU site’s research endeavors in Coastal Water Remote Sensing, Middle Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, Tropospheric Remote Sensing, Nowcasting, Vegetation and Soil Moisture, Snow Cover, Snow Depth, Sea-Ice, Water Resources, and Hurricanes among a plethora of other research areas that includes urban climate, climate change, and the urban heat island effect. Among the specific research projects that REU students will participate in are: Planetary Boundary Layer Analyses using Ceilometers and Lidars, Geolocation Correction of Satellite Precipitation Estimates Using a Radar-Gauge Product, and Analyzing the Diurnal Cycle of Urban Land Surface Temperature using Satellite Remote Sensing and in-situ Applications. Students will receive tiered-mentoring, training in ethics, mini courses in GIS, python and MATLAB, and an opportunity to present their research at a national conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该 REU 站点将为社区学院和四年制院校的本科生提供在该领域专家指导下进行全日制协作卫星和地面遥感研究的机会，每年十 (10) 个 STEM。纽约市立大学 (CUNY) 的 23 个校园机构将招募 5 名学生（5 名来自社区学院，5 名来自四年制院校），这些学生将在 15 周内成为研究学者群体的一部分。积极从事他们将参加地方、区域、国家会议上的研究小组会议、研讨会、口头和海报展示以及公民科学合作，特别是，他们将参与当地的环境合作。纽约布鲁克林贝德福德-斯图文森社区的基础和前沿、社区规模、多平台、城市热岛研究活跃但科学服务不足，参与这些活动将为有前途的本科生提供资助。两年制和四年制的机构有机会与科学家和工程师合作，并在美国最重要的卫星和地面遥感科学中心之一进行研究。卫星和地面遥感是一项极其重要、独特的任务。纽约市立大学的大多数本科生实际上都不知道这些活动将长达一年（夏季、秋季、冬季和春季）的研究经验与多维/分层的指导、学术支持系统和稳健的学习社区为学生参与者的科学和学术成长和发展提供全面和有吸引力的刺激。这些活动将使本科研究人员能够通过成为纽约市公立学校系统高中生的研究导师来磨练他们所获得的技能和知识。该计划的科学和教育价值主要来自两个来源：1）注重将学习从科学和数学转移到技术、计算机系统和工程应用，其中学到了基本原理。特别是自然科学和数学课程应用于现实世界的问题，以及 2) NOAA-CESSRST 和 ReSESS（REU 站点）研究科学家的科学、数学和工程专业知识，他们都是专业活跃的学者，在 REU 站点进行研究并指导学生。 REU 站点的重点是卫星和地面遥感在大气层、水圈、生物圈、岩石圈和冰冻圈研究中的应用。地面遥感、地面现场测量、数据处理和分析、建模和预报、卫星算法开发以及卫星产品的校准和验证这些活动支撑着REU站点在沿海水域遥感、中层大气遥感方面的研究工作。传感、高光谱遥感、对流层遥感、临近预报、植被和土壤湿度、积雪、积雪深度、海冰、水资源和飓风等REU 学生将参与的具体研究项目包括：使用云高仪和激光雷达进行行星边界层分析、使用卫星降水估计进行地理定位校正。雷达测量产品，以及利用卫星遥感和现场应用分析城市地表温度的日循环。分层指导、道德培训、GIS、Python 和 MATLAB 迷你课程，以及在全国会议上展示其研究成果的机会。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和技术进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。