Donna Charlevoix

UNAVCO

With TikTok emerging as one of the most popular social media platforms, there is significant potential for science communicators to capitalize on this success and to share their science with a broad, engaged audience. While videos of chemistry and physics experiments are prominent among educational science content on TikTok, videos related to the g...

The Geo-Launchpad Program is a pre-Research Experience for Undergraduates (pre-REU) providing a summer internship and professional development for two-year college (2YC) students from Colorado. The program goal was to build students’ interest and capacity to engage in geoscience-focused STEM career pathways. The pre-REU helped students develop skil...

The July 2019 Ridgecrest sequence was observed in exquisite detail by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE) Network of the Americas (NOTA), which has a dense array of continuously observing Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations and subarrays of strain and seismic borehole net...

Geo-Launchpad (GLP) is a collaborative effort between UNAVCO, a non-profit, university-governed consortium that facilitates geoscience research and education, and Front Range Community College (FRCC), Colorado’s largest community college. Designed as a pre-REU summer internship experience, GLP helps students develop research-ready skills, and provi...

Effective communication is a skill increasingly recognized to be critical to success in scientific research, interactions, and broader impacts. UNAVCO joined the Portal to the Public Network (PoPNet) in March of 2016 to offer improved communication skills to our scientific community, starting in summer 2016 with a cohort of graduate students. Porta...

The NSF TUES-funded GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI) project is developing modules for use in introductory and majors-level courses that emphasize a broad range of geodetic data and quantitative skills applied to societally important issues of climate change, natural hazards, and water resources (serc.carleton.edu/getsi). The modules fill...

InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) is a geodetic technique commonly used to map ground deformation from radar images. The technique results in an interferogram, or deformation map, which is very visual but difficult to interpret for the untrained eye. To facilitate understanding of InSAR, we designed a wall-sized infographic to visual...

The 2013 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Symposium on Education continued its tradition of bringing together educators, researchers, professionals, and students to share innovations in education and increase the understanding of the role of educational activities and practices to benefit all ages of learners. The 2-day symposium included 32 o...

This research investigates the impact professors, and other instructional staff, have on student content knowledge acquisition in a physical science MOOC offered through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An A/B test was used to randomly assign MOOC participants in either a control group (with no instructional interaction) or an interv...

Over the past 9 years, UNAVCO—a university-governed consortium fostering geoscience research and education focused on geodesy—supported 44 interns through the Research Experiences in Solid Earth Science for Students (RESESS) program. The primary goal of the program is to increase the number of historically underrepresented students entering the geo...

The Symposium on Education provides a confluence point for a wide variety of people interested in improving education in the atmospheric and related sciences. Education is considered broadly in the symposium, and encompasses teaching students in kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) and college, training meteorological professionals, and providing...

The increasing desire to engage the public in science and research has advanced citizen science as a valuable and popular means to this end. Citizen science, a process by which concerned individuals, agencies, industries or community groups collaborate to monitor, track, and respond to issues of common community concerns, has evolved and grown over...

The GLOBE Program is an international science and education focused on connecting scientists, teachers and students around relevant, local environmental issues. GLOBE's focus during the next two years in on climate, global change and understanding climate from a scientific perspective. The GLOBE Student Climate Research Campaign (SCRFC) will engage...

The GLOBE Program invites scientists in all areas of Earth System Science to work with students and teachers around the work on exploring local scientific problems. GLOBE has a rich history of connecting scientists with schools around the world around issues of environmental and relevance. GLOBE is an international science and education program wor...

What: Educators at all levels shared effective strategies for increasing the quality and quantity of education in the atmospheric and related sciences. Broad themes included a focus on collaboration, use of technology to enable learning, and strategies to get more atmospheric and related sciences into K–12 schools.

In late October 2010, the second A-Train Science Symposium will be held in New Orleans, LA. (The first such event was hosted by CNES in France in 2007.) In conjunction with the symposium, a multi-faceted education event is also being planned. This will include: - Onsite one-day teacher workshops for local teachers introducing remote sensing and the...

One of the fundamental challenges in promoting student and citizen climate literacy is developing awareness and understanding of the time and spatial scales on which climate changes occur. Students and citizens living in polar regions are now able to observe changes in sea ice extent, permafrost depth, and local ecosystems that have occurred in the...

I-LLINI Partnerships is a three-year State of Illinois funded program to initiate enhanced communication between the faculty at University of Illinois and K-12 teachers in the surrounding communities. The program focuses on math and science with a particular emphasis on the use of technology to teaching math and science to middle-school aged childr...

What: Annual meeting on education and outreach in the atmospheric and related sciences, including activities in K–12, college, and informal education. The conference featured two special sessions: hurricane awareness and the use of technology in the classroom.

What: The annual meeting of those committed to education and outreach in the atmospheric sciences, including people working in K-12, college, and informal education. This year's meeting included special sessions on teaching with technology and the educational opportunities provided by broadcast meteorology.

We propose that the key to creating an effective learning experience in a blended environment with over 100 students is to strategically embed learning activities into the curriculum. Inquiry-based, technology-rich learning activities give students many of the same benefits of community as experienced in a small, traditional class. Technology-based...

I-LLINI Partnerships is two-year State funded program to initiate enhance communication between the faculty at University of Illinois and K-12 teachers in the surrounding communities. The program focuses on math and science with a particular emphasis on the use of technology to teaching math and science to middle-school aged children. The Partnersh...

We evaluate the learning outcomes of students in large enrollment classes comparing a blended learning course format and a traditional lecture section. Blended learning, here, describes instruction that is a combination of face-to-face meeting with asynchronous online learning, resulting in reduced class time. The course, Severe and Hazardous Weath...

ESES 202 is a new general education course in physical science at the University of Illinois's School of Earth, Society and Environment, designed for pre-service K-8 teachers. The goal of the course is to help future classroom teachers become confident with teaching earth science content. The designers of this course include a faculty expert in ear...

Boyer's scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has finally reached the field of atmospheric sciences, albeit not yet fully embraced. As such, in order to facilitate such scholarship, the development of a resource structure is thus recommended. It has been implemented in some institutions like at the University of Wisconsin, in which they imple...

In order to better understand its student population, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) conducted a 2005 AMS Survey of Membership, which analyzed their current level of involvement in the AMS and the discipline in general. The survey is important in that, it is the first ever of such survey about student involvement in AMS. Electronically c...

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) conducted the first survey on its members in 2005. In this survey, the focus is on members employed in higher-education including two- and four-year colleges and universities. Out of the 9,136 AMS members that received the email, a total of 5,451 members responded. About 1,596 of the total respondents said...

The 15th Education Symposium, held as part of the 86th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, addressed the scope of education and outreach efforts within atmospheric and related sciences. The program focused on innovations in K-16 education. Three themes emerged from the symposium. The first was the notion that K-12 education is a s...

To foster greater classroom participation while also helping students to take better class notes, an alternative lecture delivery method was introduced. A tablet PC was incorporated into lectures, allowing the instructors to annotate PowerPoint slides of weather maps, charts, and electronic copies of figures from the textbook. Students were provide...

ATMOSPHERIC general circulation models predict enhanced greenhouse warming at high latitudes1 owing to positive feedbacks between air temperature, ice extent and surface albedo2–4. Previous analyses of Arctic temperature trends have been restricted to land-based measurements on the periphery of the Arctic Ocean5,6. Here we present temperatures meas...

The experiences of seven women pursuing undergraduate degrees in atmospheric sciences are examined through lenses constructed from social science theories of self-efficacy, resiliency and social capital. Each of the women successfully earned a Bachelor's degree in atmospheric sciences in spite of being the minority in a male-dominated field. Examin...