NASA’s Student Science Activation Program completes first summer of student research

An article highlighting the students of SaSa (NASA’s Student Science Activation Program) was published to the NASA Earth Expeditions blog last week. SaSa is a new NASA program at work to diversify the field of geoscience by engaging rising sophomore undergraduate students from minority serving institutions in an 8-week hands-on summer internship. This summer’s internship took place at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in July of this year.

BAERI’s Samiah Moustafa and Kristina Pistone were part of the core SaSa team, and numerous BAERI employees provided support for the P-3 aircraft and instruments used for the research flights.

Learn more about SaSa’s inaugural cohort:

• Meet the 2022 SaSa class
• Get to know SaSa’s 2022 graduate student mentors
• Listen to storycorps interviews with a few of this year’s student participants (Kennedi White, Jonathan Hale, and Stephanie Marie Ortiz Rosario) and graduate mentors (Alicia Hoffman and David Moore).