{"id":5491,"date":"2015-08-11T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/scst\/2015\/08\/11\/5491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:23:27","slug":"5491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/2015\/08\/11\/5491\/","title":{"rendered":"A Summer with NASA's Student Airborne Research Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am participating\u00a0in the\u00a0Student Airborne Research Program\u00a0<\/a>(SARP), which is a\u00a0program\u00a0funded\u00a0by\u00a0NASA\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0is\u00a0targeted toward undergraduates\u00a0of junior standing (AKA entering their senior year). \u00a0It’s\u00a0a national program that\u00a0takes place in Southern California, but\u00a0includes students from all over the US and US territories (we have one girl from Puerto Rico).\u00a0 There are a total of 32 students participating\u00a0in the program, with a 14:18 female-to-male ratio.\u00a0 Shockingly, NASA isn’t all about space exploration and I have personally disappointed many of my friends with my lack of space selfies… However, NASA does have a large Earth Science research sector that produces imperative global climate models, green house gas emission research, and pollution monitoring used for environmental legislation and policy.<\/p>\n

SARP is an earth-science-based research program, but includes majors from various scientific fields (ex: Physics, Astronomy, Meteorology, Biochemistry, &\u00a0Computer Science).\u00a0 I am only one of two Chemistry Majors! It’s an 8-week program that begins with a week of training at the Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, CA. There, we are given crash courses by various graduate professors and NASA scientists and specialists in fields like atmospheric chemistry, remote sensing, climatology, and other areas of atmospheric sciences.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

The second week\u2019s training involves flight prep\/flights where we integrate all the research devices aboard the NASA DC-8.\u00a0 We then begin a series of flights to collect air samples (greenhouse gases, VOCs, and other pollutants), topographic images (pictures of land\/ocean areas) and other supplementary data around California.\u00a0 Areas of interest that we collected samples and data in were the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, wildfires, and the LA basin.<\/p>\n

Each student is expected to formulate and conduct their own individual research project that they will present at the end of the program. There are 4 research groups that each student can choose to join:<\/p>\n

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  1. Atmospheric: Whole Air Sampling<\/li>\n
  2. Atmospheric: Photochemical Trace Gases<\/li>\n
  3. Land<\/li>\n
  4. Ocean<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n

    Each group has a faculty member and accompanying graduate student mentor to guide their research for the rest of summer. We are also taught about all the different apparatuses, detectors, and other research tools used aboard the flight for each group.\u00a0 In addition, each faculty member presents their research and lectures on their fields of interest and then each student is able to rank their choice of group and then assigned groups.<\/p>\n

    After the flights in Palmdale, all the students and mentors move into campus houses divided by research group at UCI to conduct their research for the rest of the program.\u00a0 We are expected to work nine to five, Monday through Friday on our research projects.\u00a0 The week isn’t just straight work though, and various NASA scientists come talk about their research with us including Kirsten Siebach (a part of the\u00a0Mars Curiosity rover team at\u00a0NASA) and Mike Brown (“the man who killed Pluto”). We also go on field trips to destinations like NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech’s laboratories, collect air samples from the Santa Barbara oil spill, & SpaceX.<\/p>\n

    \"Inside<\/p>\n

    I am a part of the Atmospheric group that focuses on Photochemical Trace Gases: ozone, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, aerosols, and newly added ammonia data.\u00a0 My faculty members are Barry Lefer (University of Houston) & Tim Bertram (University of San Diego).\u00a0 All of our data is taken “in situ”, which means on site with detectors aboard the plane and then analyzed at UCI.\u00a0 Our group is the most coding intensive, and it requires utilizing many different scientific programs\/applications to analyze our data, including matlab (matrices manipulator), python (coding language), R (statistical tool), and IGOR (scientific graphing tool).\u00a0 With all that said, our group is great because it fosters skills that can be used beyond this program in\u00a0graduate school or future occupations.<\/p>\n

    Overall this experience has been so much more than just research. It has exposed me to so many fields of Earth Science and solidified the blaring fact that OUR WORLD’S POLLUTION IS A REAL ISSUE and action NEEDS to be taken.\u00a0 This has been a rare opportunity to explore scientific interests I would not have otherwise been able to, and am very grateful for it.\u00a0 Also it has given me a taste of grad school and a leg up on how applications, fellowships, and other tips work through the mentors and faculty that are currently in or working for graduate programs.<\/p>\n

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