ED31G:
Virtual Mechanisms for Supporting Underrepresented Minority Student Recruitment and Retention

Session ID#: 2461

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Bethany Holm Adamec, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Heather R Houlton, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
Primary Convener:  Heather R Houlton, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Lois Ricciardi, Institute for Broadening Participation, Damariscotta, ME, United States and Bethany Holm Adamec, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lois Ricciardi, Institute for Broadening Participation, Damariscotta, ME, United States
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Virtual Tools to Broaden Participation in the Earth and Space Sciences through Geolead (Geoscience Learning, Engagement And Development) (Invited) (8746)
Pranoti M. Asher1, Bethany Holm Adamec1, Harry Furukawa1, Aisha R. Morris2, Rebecca Haacker3, Marlene Kaplan4, Gary B Lewis5, Elsa Velasco6 and James A Brey7, (1)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, (2)U.S. National Science Foundation, Geosciences Directorate, Alexandria, United States, (3)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early-Career Development, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA Washington DC, Office of Education, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa, OK, United States, (7)American Meteorological Society, Education Program, Washington, DC, United States
 
GigaPan Technology to Enhance In-Class and In-Field Learning in Community College Settings (16331)
Joshua I Villalobos, El Paso Community College, Geological Sciences Discipline, El Paso, TX, United States and Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, United States
 
"Supporting Early Career Women in the Geosciences through Online Peer-Mentoring: Lessons from the Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN)" (Invited) (26477)
Tracey Holloway1, Meredith Galanter Hastings2, Rebecca T Barnes3, Emily V Fischer4, Christine Wiedinmyer5, Carmen Rodriguez6, Manda S Adams7 and Erika Marin-Spiotta1, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (3)Colorado College, Environmental Studies Program, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, (7)UNC-Charlotte-Geo & Earth Scie, Charlotte, NC, United States
 
MS PHD’S: A successful model for reaching underrepresented minorities (URM) students through virtual platforms (Invited) (27592)
Onjalé Scott Price, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States; NOAA-Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Ashanti Johnson, Institute for Broadening Participation, Damariscotta, ME, United States, Vivian Williamson, Ohio Aerospace Institute, Cleveland, OH, United States, Lois Ricciardi, Institute for Broadening Participation, Damariscotta, United States, Ambrose Jearld Jr, NOAA-Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Retired, Woods Hole, United States and Warner I Guzman, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Cidra, PR, United States
 
Characterization of Pollution Transport into Texas Using OMI and TES Satellite and In Situ data, and HYSPLIT Back Trajectory Analyses: implications for TCEQ State Implementation Plans and High School/Undergraduate STEM Education (18170)
Christopher Boxe1,2, Delisha Bella3, Jessica Khaimova4, Johnathan Culpepper1, Nabib Ahmed5, Adam Belkalai5, Jarret Ealy1, Isabella Arroyo6, Maxine Lahoumh6,7, Oren Jenkins6, Samori Emmanuel8, Julien Andrews9, Dejian Fu10, Longtao Wu11, Yunsoo Choi12, Garry Morris13, Gregory B Osterman14, Leon P Johnson1 and Shermane A. Austin15, (1)Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, Environmental Science & Chemistry, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (2)CUNY Graduate Center, Chemistry Division, Earth and Environmental Science Division,, Manhattan, NY, United States, (3)SUNY at Albany, School of Public Health, Albany, NY, United States, (4)Brooklyn College, Earth and Planetary Science, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (5)Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (6)Khaili Gibran International Academy High School, Brooklyn, United States, (7)5Khaili Gibran International Academy High School, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (8)Valley Stream South High School, Long Island, NY, United States, (9)Medgar Evers Preparatory High School, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (10)JPL / Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (12)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (13)Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, United States, (14)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (15)Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States
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