FY13 Diversity Committee Awards:
| Project Name | Principal Investigator(s) |
Project Description | Period of Performance | Amount | Final Report |
| Building long-term partnerships with targeted US University programs | Mary Barth/NESL | Create partnerships with Atmospheric Sciences programs that have students from historically under-represented populations through the exchange of NCAR Scientists, faculty and students from identified programs. |
11/1/12- 10/31/14 |
$39,999 | |
| EOL Technical Internship Program - Phase II | Mike Daniels, Wen-Chau Lee, Alison Rockwell, and Sara Metz, EOL | Offers four summer internships to technical and science support-focused students from 2-year and vocational/technical institutions in the Boulder/Denver area to increase diversity in these fields. |
10/1/12- 9/30/14 |
$27,317 | |
| Teaching at University of Texas, El Paso, an HSI | Chris Davis/ASP | The primary goal of this project is to enhance opportunities for the participation of minority students from the University of Texas El Paso in atmospheric research. UTEP is a minority serving institution with 75% minority student representation. | 1/15/13 - 5/15/13 | $31,912 | |
| The rising voice of indigenous peoples in weather and climate science | Heather Lazrus/NESL | This workshop with experts on cross-cultural scientific engagement with Native American communities to address the question: What are the elements of successful co-production of science and policy in the related fields of extreme weather and climate change? |
10/1/12 - 9/30/14 |
$39,975 | |
| Creating a diversity education and engagement laboratory for the computational geosciences | Rich Loft/CISL | Leverage the new CISL Diversity Coordinator's skills in education research, diversity, and outreach and networking efforts in FY13 to create within CISL a Diversity Education and Engagement Laboratory in the computational geosciences. |
8/13/13 - 9/30/14 |
$40,000 | |
| Expanding your horizons conference | Astrid Maute/HAO | Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) is a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) conference for middle school girls held at the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder. This proposal seeks suppOl1 from the NCAR Diversity fund to cover part of the cost of registration fee waivers and the room rental fees of the engineering center at CU Boulder. | 3/1/13- 2/28/14 | $1,543 | |
| NCAR-EOL collaboration with CLACE and Nuestra Tierra Dinamica | Vidal Salazar/EOL | EOL, in collaboratorion with CLACE, will support the NCAR Careers project which is designed to engage the interest of Latino and other K-12 students in learning about atmospheric research and related careers. |
10/1/12 - 11/1/13 |
$32,349 |
