Award Abstract #0302967
Collaborative Research: Enhancing Diversity in Geosciences in North Carolina

NSF Org:	GEO Directorate for Geosciences
Initial Amendment Date:	August 12, 2003
Latest Amendment Date:	May 6, 2004
Award Number:	0302967
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Jill L. Karsten GEO Directorate for Geosciences GEO Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date:	August 15, 2003
Expires:	July 31, 2007 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$449988
Investigator(s):	Guoqing Tang gtang@ncat.edu (Principal Investigator) Solomon Bililign (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University 1601 E. Market Street Greensboro, NC 27411 336/334-7995
NSF Program(s):	OPPORT FOR ENHANCING DIVERSITY
Field Application(s):	0000099 Other Applications NEC
Program Reference Code(s):	OTHR, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	1697

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

Collaborative Research: Enhancing Diversity in Geosciences in North Carolina



This project is a collaborative effort between North Carolina State University (NCSU), a Research I University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), an Historically Black University, and Robeson Community College (RCC), a community college serving a predominantly minority student body. This project will develop and enhance geoscience education and research capabilities at two participating minority serving institutions, enabling them to collaborate with a major research university to expand opportunities for students from underrepresented groups to participate in geoscience education and research through geoscience course study, structured undergraduate research training, and academic and professional support activities. NCSU has existing bachelors, masters and doctoral programs in geosciences, while neither NC A&T nor RCC has geoscience degree programs. The objective of this program is to provide an opportunity for the minority student populations at NC A&T and RCC to become geoscientists by adding introductory level courses at RCC and by adding a geophysics concentration to the physics program at NC A&T, and by enhancing research infrastructure and undergraduate research training in geosciences at NC A&T and RCC. The program will emphasize undergraduate research, will include geoscience curriculum enhancement and comprehensive support activities to maximize retention and graduation, and has assessment elements to evaluate each program element.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Guoquan Wang, David Boore, Guoqing Tang, and Xiyuan Zhou.  "Comparisons of Ground Motions from Colocated and Closely Spaced One-Sample-per-Second Global Positioning System and Accelerograph Recordings of the 2003 M 6.5 San Simeon, California, Earthquake in the Parfield Region,"  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America,  v.97,  2007,  p. 76.

Guoquan Wang, Guoqing Tang, Caesar Jackson, Xiyuan Zhou, and Qingliang Lin.  "Strong ground motions observed at the UPSAR during the 2003 San Simeon earthquake (M 6.5) and the 2004 Parkfield earthquake (M 6.0),"  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America,  v.96,  2006,  p. S159.

Guoquan Wang, Guoqing Tang, David Boore, G. Van Ness Burbach, Caesar Jackson, Xiyuan Zhou, and Qingliang Lin.  "Strong Surface Waves Observed in the Western Coastal Plain of the Taiwan Island From one Aftershock of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake,"  Bulletin of the Seismological Scociety of America,  v.96,  2006,  p. 821.


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