Session: Effective Strategies for Increasing Minority Participation in the Atmospheric Sciences (98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 9 January 2018: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Ballroom C (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 27th Symposium on Education

Cochairs:

Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York, Department of Physics, Brooklyn, NY and Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York, Mathematics Department, Brooklyn, NY

This session seeks projects that demonstrate innovative and transformative strategies and best practices to solve the lack of inclusion of diverse groups, including minority students in the atmospheric sciences. It seeks methodologies for attracting, recruiting, and retaining diverse ethnicities and projects that demonstrate practices that increase participation, access, awareness, and interest of underrepresented minorities.

Papers:

10:30 AM

4.1

Including Indigenous Voices through Climate Adaptation Planning

Renee A. McPherson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Taylor and A. Phleger

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

4.2

GLOBE Atmosphere and AMS Diversity Program Content to Foster Weather and Climate Science Awareness at HBCUs: A Curriculum Enhancement Model

David Padgett, Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, TN

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM