Science in the Mountains: A Unique Research Experience to Enhance Diversity in the Geosciences

Obstacles to the recruitment of minorities into the geosciences: A call to action

“…Successful approaches to recruiting a more diverse geoscience undergraduate population are described in the Dec. 2007 Journal of Geoscience Education (v. 55, http://nagt.org/nagt/ jge/abstracts/dec07.html) and include attention to the geoscience pipeline (Levine et al, 2007). Subsequent articles show that summer research experiences (Hallar et al, 2010) and paired programs with historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) (Stassun et al, 2010) are effective.…”

A framework for addressing the lack of diversity in the Geosciences through evaluating the current structure of institutional efforts

“…Several reasons for this are provided, including the ''leaky pipeline.'' This leaky pipeline suffers from losses in the recruitment, retention, and placement stages (Dutt et al, 2016;Estaville et al, 2006c;Hallar et al, 2010;Holmes, 2015;Huntoon & Lane, 2007;Levine et al, 2007;McEntee, 2019;Williams et al, 2007). Further, much of the research on the lack of diversity began with examining men/women gender parity in the field, only recently moving to other underrepresented groups, such as those belonging to racial and ethnic groups and LGBTQIA ?…”

Using the Amazing atmosphere to Foster Student Learning and Interest in Meteorology

“…Recognizing their value, many university meteorology degree programs have incorporated formal field courses into their undergraduate-level curricula. For over a decade, The City College of New York offered an instrumentation course where students traveled to Storm Peak Laboratory in the Colorado Rocky Mountains to collect cloud droplets (Hindman 1993;Borys and Wetzel 1997;Hallar et al 2010). In 1999, the University of Arizona developed an undergraduate course that allowed enrolled students to take vehicle-mounted measurements to actively investigate the heat island effect in Tucson, Arizona (Comrie 2000).…”