The Ultraviolet Impacts Network: Linking Education in Atmospheric and Health Sciences

[907674]拟议的项目将建立一个紫外线影响网络（UV-IN），一个社区大学教师和学生的地球科学教育网络。紫外线影响网络的目的是改进对控制臭氧消耗的物理概念和过程的指导，以及由此产生的对紫外线气候学和健康风险的影响。该方案解决了在推进地球科学教育方面的几个公认需求，并纳入了与气候变化过程、太阳、大气和地球表面之间的物理相互作用以及与人类健康风险和环境管理相关的增强知识。参与网络的每个学院的教师和学生都可以访问广泛的UV数据网络，并将参加团队培训研讨会。教员-学生小组培训讲习班将于2000年夏季举行，届时共有20个小组将获得以下方面的实际经验：仪器选择和安装、数据收集和在网页上发布数据、获取诸如气候和健康数据库等辅助资料的方法培训、关于臭氧气候学和紫外线辐射大气透过率的科学方面的指导，以及健康影响评估方法的示范。在研讨会上进行培训和介绍后，参与的师生团队将共同制定具体地点的课程计划，以监测紫外线通量气候学，并解释当地和区域紫外线暴露风险的特征。这些计划需要包括气象学、地理学、生态学、健康科学、娱乐、医疗技术、环境科学等各学院多个班级参与的监测和评估活动。每项计划还将包括地方卫生和环境机构的参与，并提供新的职业信息和实习机会。参与院校将通过互联网交流课程计划、数据集、分析和讨论，开发“分布式知识”资源。综合数据和解释性信息将用于学生探究项目和实验室练习，以便研究臭氧和其他气候参数的时空趋势和变异性如何影响紫外线照射的风险因素。第二个夏天将举行后续会议/工作坊，讨论紫外线影响网络的进展，并协助教师在其学院继续实施网络活动。这个拟议的项目将建立在参与美国农业部国家UV-B监测网络以及美国国家科学基金会资助的名为内华达州学生教师教育计划的教育项目的基础上，并将提高社区学院教师和学生在地球科学研究和环境评估方面的能力。

9907674WetzelThe proposed project will establish an Ultraviolet Impacts Network (UV-IN), a geosciences education network of community college faculty and students. The UV Impacts Network is designed to improve instruction in the physical concepts and processes, which control ozone depletion, and the resulting influences on ultraviolet (UV) climatology and health risk. This program addresses several of the recognized needs in the advancement of geosciences education and incorporates enhanced knowledge related to climate change processes, physical interactions between the sun, atmosphere, and Earth surface, as well as, relevance to human health risk and environmental management. Faculty and students at each college participating in the network will have access to an extensive UV data network and will attend a team-training workshop. The faculty-student team training workshop will be held during the summer of 2000, at which a total of 20 teams will have hands-on experience with instrument selection and installation, data collection and posting of data on web pages, methods training for accessing auxiliary information such as climate and health databases, instruction on the scientific aspects of ozone climatology and atmospheric transmittance of UV radiation, and demonstration of methods for health impacts assessment. After training and presentations at the workshop, participating faculty-student teams will work together to develop site-specific curriculum plans for monitoring UV flux climatology and interpreting local and regional characteristics of UV exposure risk. These plans will be required to involve monitoring and assessment activities which engage multiple classes at each college, such as Meteorology, Geography, Ecology, Health Science, Recreation, Medical Technology, and Environmental Sciences. Each plan will also include involvement of local health and environmental agencies, and the provision of new career information and internship opportunities. The participating colleges will develop a "distributed knowledge" resource by exchanging course plans, datasets, and analysis and discussion via Internet (web) communications. The combined data and interpretive information will be used for student inquiry projects and lab exercises to allow study of how spatial and temporal trends and variability of ozone and other climate parameters influence the risk factors for ultraviolet exposure. A follow-up conference/workshop will be held during second summer, to allow discussion of the UV Impacts Network progress and to assist faculty in continued implementation of the Network activities at their colleges. This proposed project will build on participation in the USDA national UV-B monitoring network, as well as, an NSF-sponsored educational project entitled Nevada Student Teacher Education Program, and will foster increased capabilities of community college faculty and students in geoscience research and environmental assessment.