Participating date: January 26, 2023

General Description

OCEANOS is a 4-years project (2022-2025) that aims at closing the gap between
NASA technologies and underrepresented minorities by providing training
opportunities to Hispanic/Latinos (i.e., Puerto Rican) students through Summer
internship experiences focused on NASA EO, remote sensing, ocean color and
coastal ecosystems characterization led by a network of Puerto Rican subject
matter experts. The project’s main goal is to improve capacity and awareness
among Hispanic/Latino students on the availability of NASA EO for ocean color
and coastal parameters. As such, this project has three main objectives: 1) To
capacitate low-income Hispanic/Latino high schoolers and first-generation
university undergraduates on ocean color data acquisition and analysis with
remotely-sensed freely-available imagery, 2) To improve, at a minimum by
two-fold and measured by a series of surveys/questionnaires, the scientific
literacy among Hispanic/Latino students, particularly on the combined used of
in situ and remotely-sensed data for ocean studies, and 3) To aid in the
dissemination of Science Mission Directorate (SMD) assets among the fastest
growing underrepresented group of the United States.

Interested Majors

Marine Sciences

Level of Education

Ask speakers if Undergraduate or Graduate opportunities are available.

Professor/Advisor

Roy A. Armstrong, Ph.D.

Map and Booth Location

B1-11