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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Bethany Holm Adamec, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Heather R Houlton, American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Heather R Houlton, American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, VA, 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 Liaisons:  Lois Ricciardi, Institute for Broadening Participation, Damariscotta, ME, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Virtual Tools to Broaden Participation in the Earth and Space Sciences through Geolead (Geoscience Learning, Engagement And Development)
Pranoti M Asher1, Bethany Holm Adamec1, Harry Furukawa1, Aisha Renee Morris2, Rebecca Haacker-Santos3, Marlene Kaplan4, Gary B Lewis5, Elsa Velasco6 and James A Brey7, (1)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, (2)UNAVCO, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)UCAR, Boulder, CO, 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)AMS-Education Program, Washington, DC, United States
 
GigaPan Technology to Enhance In-Class and In-Field Learning in Community College Settings
Joshua I Villalobos, El Paso Community College, Geological Sciences Discipline, El Paso, TX, United States and Callan Bentley, Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, Geology, Annandale, VA, United States
 
"Supporting Early Career Women in the Geosciences through Online Peer-Mentoring: Lessons from the Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN)"
Tracey Holloway1, Meredith Galanter Hastings2, Rebecca T Barnes3, Emily V Fischer4, Christine Wiedinmyer5, Carmen Rodriguez6, Amanda S Adams7 and Erika Marin-Spiotta1, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Brown Univ-Geological Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (3)Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)National Center 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
Onjale Scott1,2, Ashanti Johnson3, Vivian Williamson4, Lois Ricciardi3, Ambrose Jearld Jr.2 and Warner I Guzman5, (1)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (2)NOAA-Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Institute for Broadening Participation, Damariscotta, ME, United States, (4)Ohio Aerospace Institute, Cleveland, OH, United States, (5)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
Christohper 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)Jet Propulsion Lab-MLS, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (13)Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, United States, (14)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (15)Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States
 
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