Collaboration to Integrate Research and Education in Marine and Environmental Science and Biotechnology

合作整合海洋、环境科学和生物技术领域的研究和教育

• 批准号: 9872694
• 负责人: Matthew Gilligan
• 金额: $ 148.48万
• 依托单位: Savannah State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-10-01 至 2002-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9872694&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaboration; Integrate; Research; Education; Marine

Coastal environments in the southeastern U.S. are expected to undergo unprecedented population growth in the next 20 years (LUCES, 1996). Accompanying this human expansion will be significant increases in land use and the potential for dramatic effects upon resources and environmental quality. To be prepared to handle these issues, our educational systems need to provide the technology, methodology, and information required to assess, predict, and improve marine resources and coastal environmental quality. African Americans remain significantly underrepresented in marine and environmental science. In early recognition of both the need for and absence of black participation, Savannah State University (SSU) applied for and received assistance from NSF in 1970 to provide and equip an undergraduate curricular option in marine science. Since then, the College of Sciences and Technology has added a program in biotechnology. These combined degree programs provide a liberal arts base with fundamental knowledge in the basic sciences, and exposure to nominal methods and tools in marine and environmental science and biotechnology. However, predominantly undergraduate educational schools such as SSU simply do not have the resources or justification to develop and maintain extensive modern research facilities. Thus their students, while receiving fine classroom instruction, do not have the exposure to and training in sophisticated research environments. Those who do, generally receive it during summer research experiences outside the state or region. Without such exposure, students will be less competitive than those who have received formal training in research. The CIRE project proposed here would take advantage of a fortuitous geographic and administrative relationship between SSU and the Skidaway Institut e of Oceanography (SKIO), a nearby state-of-the-art marine and environmental research facility, and which is an NSF Field Station and Marine Lab (FSML). As members of the University System of Georgia, which administers all of the public educational and research units in the state of Georgia, SSU and SKIO have the potential to create formal ties. In the past, however, these relationships have developed only on an ad-hoc basis. Here, they propose a collaboration which would include diversification of existing courses at SSU by inclusion of teaching and research modules by SKIO faculty; formal detailed training in research via research assistantships at SKIO for qualified SSU student interns; reciprocal faculty exchange opportunities; and collaborative curriculum development. Educational programs at SSU would benefit from access to SKIO's research facilities, and SKIO would benefit from developing formal ties to degree-granting educational institutions. In recognition of the growth and success of undergraduate degree programs in marine biology and environmental studies, and in view of the potential value of this collaboration, SSU is planning to submit for approval a new M.S. degree program in Marine Science. It will be seeking support from the University System of Georgia to buy faculty time at SKIO to share their expertise with SSU students and faculty; this procedure, however, may take several years to fully implement. The CIRE project will assist that process, provide experience for faculty at both institutions, and give the opportunity to document for the University System of Georgia that the collaboration is appropriate and successful. The organization of a competitive framework for research training, the provision for expanding the depth and diversity of existing courses at SSU, and the collaboration between SSU and SKIO faculty in teaching, research, and curriculum development, will go a long way towards enchancing the opportunities and quality of training in marine and environmental sciences and biotechnology at SSU.

在未来20年内，美国东南部的沿海环境预计将经历前所未有的人口增长（LUCES，1996年）。 伴随着人类的扩张，土地使用和潜力将显著增加。 为 巨大影响 后 资源 和环境质量。 为了准备好处理这些问题， 我们的教育系统需要提供 评估，预测， 和 提高 海洋资源 和 海岸带环境质量 非裔美国人在海洋和环境科学领域的代表性仍然严重不足。 早期认识到黑人参与的必要性和缺乏，萨凡纳州立大学（SSU）于1970年申请并获得NSF的援助，以提供和装备海洋科学的本科课程选项。 从那时起，科学技术学院增加了一个生物技术项目。这些综合学位课程提供了一个文科基础，具有基础科学的基础知识，并接触海洋和环境科学以及生物技术的名义方法和工具。 然而，以本科教育为主的学校， 作为 SSU 根本没有资源 或理由来发展和维持广泛的现代研究设施。 因此，他们的学生，虽然接受良好的课堂教学，没有接触和复杂的研究环境中的培训。 那些这样做的人，通常会在夏季的研究经验中获得 国家或地区。 如果没有这样的接触，学生的竞争力将低于那些接受过正规研究培训的学生。 这里提出的CIRE项目将利用SSU和Skidaway海洋学研究所（SKIO）之间偶然的地理和行政关系，SKIO是附近最先进的海洋和环境研究设施，也是NSF现场站和海洋实验室（FSML）。 作为管理格鲁吉亚州所有公共教育和研究单位的格鲁吉亚大学系统的成员，SSU和SKIO有可能建立正式的联系。 然而，在过去，这些关系只是在临时的基础上发展起来的。 在这里，他们提出了一项合作，其中包括通过SKIO教师纳入教学和研究模块来实现SSU现有课程的多样化;通过SKIO为合格的SSU学生实习生提供研究助理的正式详细研究培训;互惠教师交流 机遇; 和 协同 课程开发 SSU的教育项目将受益于SKIO的研究设施，SKIO将受益于与授予学位的教育机构建立正式联系。 为了表彰本科生的成长和成功， 海事学位课程 生物学 和环境研究，并鉴于这种合作的潜在价值，SSU正计划提交批准一个新的MS。 海洋科学学位课程。 它将寻求格鲁吉亚大学系统的支持，在SKIO购买教师时间，与SSU的学生和教师分享他们的专业知识;然而，这一程序可能需要几年时间才能完全实施。 CIRE项目将协助这一进程，为两个机构的教师提供经验，并为格鲁吉亚大学系统提供机会，证明合作是适当的 和 成功 本组织 的 一个有竞争力的研究培训框架，扩大SSU现有课程的深度和多样性的规定，以及SSU和SKIO教师在教学，研究和课程开发方面的合作，将大大有助于提高培训的机会和质量 在 海洋 和环境 科学 和生物技术。