Strategies for Cohort Building and Retention Among Early Stage Hispanic Undergraduate Students in the Geosciences

Fredrika C Moser1, Mike R. Allen1, Maria Barberena-Arias2, Lora Harris3, Pedro M Maldonado4, Carlo Olivo-Delgado5 and James J Pierson6, (1)Maryland Sea Grant College, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, PR, United States, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States, (4)Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico, Science & Tecnology, San Juan, PR, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States