Airborne Platforms to Advance NASA Earth System Science Priorities Assessing the Future Need for a Large Aircraft (2021) / Chapter Skim
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5 Workforce Training and Development
5 Workforce Training and Development
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; and the fostering of international research capacity. With continual assessment of effectiveness and accountability, these current efforts provide a solid base on which to build improved and expanded strategies to achieve future workforce training and development objectives, specifically for airborne science and also more broadly for Earth system science research.
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When SARP has been connected to a larger field campaign and the aircraft has the full complement of instruments, individual attention on flights is possible with a 1:1 scientist-to-student ratio. A separate student airborne program was recently selected by NASA to serve minority serving institutions to specifically increase opportunities for introducing minority students who are underrepresented in STEM fields to science careers.
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, and Convective Processes Experiment -- Aerosols and Winds (CPEX-AW) campaigns included 40+ graduate students and postdocs Figure 5.1 Graduate student Ajda Savarin from the University of Washington repairs dropsondes deployed in Tropical Storm Cindy (2017)
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NASA's Space Grant Project provides funding for graduate students to conduct research on an area of interest to NASA through individual Space Grant participants' programs.2 These projects require the student to identify a faculty researcher who will mentor the student through their project and provide matching funds to support the student. These funding opportunities allow self-motivated students to propose and conduct airborne research using uncrewed airborne systems (UAS)
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Expanding measurement capability to replace legacy instruments, developing measurements of new variables, devising new integrated interdisciplinary approaches, or taking advantage of improved measurement techniques rely heavily on the next generation of scientists across the spectrum of disciplines from universities, the private sector, and government laboratories. Despite the benefit of new technology and instrumentation, change necessarily involves additional challenges related to cost and risk that early career researchers must overcome to gain entry to airborne science.
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UAS technology is changing non-airborne research scientists into airborne research scientists by making information on vertical profiles of atmospheric constituents, measurements of surface radiative properties, and other Earth system science measurements easier, and often less expensive, to obtain. NASA scientists are demonstrating the art of what is possible to these early career scientists and providing opportunities to work on research campaigns such as NASA's Marginal Ice Zone Observations and Processes EXperiment (MIZOPEX3)
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Science teams need to work in close quarters in a coordinated fashion when deployed to the field. As science teams become more diverse, it is important to provide training that reminds participants of the sensitivities and perceptions that can be damaging to both interpersonal relationships and the work environment and to promote conditions conducive to collaboration and good science.
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His participation carried both diplomatic and science benefit, with his measurements of ozone and nitrogen oxides providing fundamental value to the science objectives aimed at understanding the air pollution along the Asian Pacific Rim and its transport to the remote atmosphere. This opportunity allowed him to launch an airborne science effort in Japan that provided great value over the years through several Japan-sponsored airborne campaigns.
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A large aircraft has the capacity to include international partners during field missions, thus fostering scientists from other countries to improve their countries' capacity to conduct airborne Earth system science research. Figure 5.2 Dongwook Kim and Changmin Cho, Korean students from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, work on a cavity enhanced spectrometer on board the DC-8 during KORUS-AQ.
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