Undergraduate Research Experience with African Nation Component

1. Undergraduate Research Experience with African Nation Component Principal Investigators Dr. Linda Hayden Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research Elizabeth City State University Objectives The URE OMPS program objective is to promote the professional development of minority undergraduate students through their participation in ocean, marine, and polar science research. • Key Achievement • 10 U.S. Citizens engaged in eight week of profession development and research training activities in ONR related fields. Three African students from Nigeria and Ghana were also involved in the summer 2009 program. Student were from four Minority Serving Institutions and two African universities. • Research investigations included: • Estimating the distribution of CO2 parameters in surface water of the Indian Ocean from temperature and salinity. • The Carolina Bays: An investigation of North America’s Post Last-Glacial Maximum Environment (LGM) • A Comparative Analysis of Localized Command Line Execution, Remote Execution through Command Line, and Torque Submissions of Matlab(R) Scripts for the Charting of CReSIS Flight Path Data
 • Visualization of the 1993-2007 CReSIS Greenland Data Sets for the Polar Grid High Performance Computing System • Hands-on Global Positioning (GPS) and Remote Sensing (RS) training for High school learners: SHAWNO and MSEN in Cape Town, South Africa Approach The program consists of undergraduates, each student assigned to a specific research team, where they work closely with faculty.