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FISON promotes fisheries research and development, human resource capacity building, education and partnerships inside and outside of Nigeria to contribute to food security and wealth generation. The National Association of Fisheries Students (NAFIS) is the student membership program of FISON and provides an opportunity for fisheries undergraduate and graduate students to network and interact with…

The Freshwater Research Institute (FRI) at Susquehanna University (SU) was founded to increase collaborative research and outreach on freshwater ecology in Pennsylvania. FRI staff collaborate with SU and regional higher ed faculty and students, state agencies, and nonprofits to assess and restore the ecological health of local watersheds. Through this project, FRI will offer a…

This outreach program focuses on the different types of disasters peculiar to Nigeria, both their causes and management strategies that can be adopted to mitigate their effects. This outreach program will focus on flooding in Abuja, Northern Nigeria, and Lagos, Southern Nigeria, because of its geographical spread, frequency of occurrence and degree of casualty. Students…

GEM and Yavapai College will offer a hands-on science education through a field experience program for underserved college students. The program will offer students the opportunity to apply their knowledge, broaden perspectives on conservation, and gain insight into managing public lands. GEM is seeking to address the problem that 90% of lower-income, first generation college…

Few efforts have been made to address how environmental, infrastructure, and cultural aspects of the Arctic change together nor to bring students of the Artic to research institutions. This project seeks to bring Artic youth into the conversation around these issues. Young people from Arctic communities will travel to the University of Virginia for a…

Residents of Tutuila, America Samoa have noted that their primary concern about preparing for climate change was not additional hard infrastructure but rather more education and outreach about the basics of climate change and the relationship atmospheric and earth sciences have to cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and biological sciences. This project will create a long-term,…

This program is focused on using commercial spacecraft to open the scientific world to public school students who would otherwise not have extensive exposure to the scientific community. The intention is to develop and fly a student scientific experiment on the Blue Origin New Shepard commercial suborbital spacecraft, engaging the entire PS185 (Brooklyn, NY) Elementary…

Two WiSci camps will be held in the summer of 2019, one in Kosovo, and one in Estonia, with the objective of bringing together industry leaders in science and technical fields to promote and encourage young women from around the world to pursue STEAM career paths. This project will develop NASA curriculum aligned with WiSci…

Girls’ Outdoor Adventure in Leadership and Science (GOALS) at UC Davis seeks to cultivate and embolden the next generation of STEM leaders through a free, immersive, field-based summer science program inclusive of all high school girls. The program begins with a 2-week backpacking program in the summer, during which participants develop research projects, and is…

The project aims to engage communities around schools in areas at risk for socio-environmental disasters and increase their perception of the potential risk. Through sharing scientific knowledge to aid their protection, sustainability and resilience, these communities will be able to better practice citizen science. This will be accomplished through two seminars with 200 school in…