Broadening Participation and Engagement of Underrepresented Minorities in the Geosciences Through a Near Surface Geophysics Field Experience

Kristina Keating1, Gregory Mount2, Ellen Altermatt3, Kristin O'Connell3, Jorden Hayes4, Susan Brantley5, Alexander E Gates6, Jonathan Nyquist7 and Ellen A R Iverson8, (1)Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States, (2)Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Geosciences, Indiana, PA, United States, (3)Carleton College, Science Education Resource Center, Northfield, MN, United States, (4)Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, (6)Rutgers University Newark, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States, (7)Temple University, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (8)Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, MN, United States