VIDEO CLIP ................................................................ Protégé Luna Rodriguez talks about the benefits of SOARS
This clip is part of "Earth, Wind, Sea, Sky" produced with funding from NOAA and NSF. For a copy of the full length DVD please contact the SOARS office.
SOARS offers summer research internships at NCAR and partnering laboratories in Boulder, Colorado for students from many disciplines interested in the atmospheric and related sciences.
The program is equal parts research internship, learning community, and mentoring program. SOARS offers comprehensive financial support for summer research and school for up to four years.
Protégés, as we call our students, work with a team of scientists and mentors on a project matched to their interests and skills. They perform original research, prepare a scientific paper, present their research at a colloquium and are part of a diverse community of peers working together to become the next generation of scientific leaders.
SOARS' mission is to broaden participation in the atmospheric and related sciences, by involving more students from historically under-represented groups, including Black or African-American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Hispanic or Latino, female, first-generation college students and students with disabilities. SOARS welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students.
Protégé joins NCAR scientists at OASIS Field Project
Protégé Talea Mayo spent her spring break in Barrow, Alaska where she joined her mentors from summer 2008 for the
Ocean - Atmosphere - Sea Ice - Snowpack (OASIS) program.
OASIS is leading a major field effort at Barrow during the winter/spring of 09 to pursue issues regarding air-surface chemical interactions in the Arctic, and their evolution in future climates.
The SOARS program is administered by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Program funding is provided by: NSF, CIRES, NOAA, and UCAR/NCAR/UOP.
Protégé Talea Mayo spent her spring break in Barrow, Alaska where she joined her mentors from summer 2008 for the