{"id":811,"date":"2019-07-30T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T13:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/?p=811"},"modified":"2019-07-30T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T13:53:02","slug":"broadening-participation-and-engagement-of-underrepresented-minorities-in-the-geosciences-through-a-near-surface-geophysics-field-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/2019\/07\/30\/broadening-participation-and-engagement-of-underrepresented-minorities-in-the-geosciences-through-a-near-surface-geophysics-field-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadening Participation and Engagement of Underrepresented Minorities in the Geosciences Through a Near Surface Geophysics Field Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>“Broadening Participation and Engagement of Underrepresented Minorities in the Geosciences Through a Near Surface Geophysics Field Experience.”<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

This is a title of the a poster Dr. Kristina Keating will in December, 2019 at the AGU meeting<\/a> in San Francisco. The talk will present what we have learned in year two of our NSF grant which funds a summer field experience at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observator<\/a>y managed by Penn State.<\/div>\n
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Students with an interest in STEM but no prior geophysical experience spent two weeks collecting and analyzing data at the Garner Run subcatchment. In addition to learning about ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography, seismic refraction tomography, and basic surveying skills, students learned such vital geophysical truths as lugging around car batteries to power geophysical equipment is a pain, and even the newest ruggedized computer laptops screens are challenging to read in direct sunlight.<\/div>\n
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The abstract concludes that, “Analyses of pre- and post- student surveys show that the students reported statistically significant gains in geoscience knowledge, professional skills, and known psychosocial predictors of persistence in science (e.g., science self-efficacy). Some students who participated in the field experience reported increased interest in geoscience\u00a0 majors or careers.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Best of all, they had a lot of fun doing it!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Broadening Participation and Engagement of Underrepresented Minorities in the Geosciences Through a Near Surface Geophysics Field Experience.” This is a title of the a poster Dr. Kristina Keating will in December, 2019 at the AGU meeting in San Francisco. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}