Women in Marine Science (WIMS)

这个项目将建立一个网站，让公众和学校的孩子们参与到女性海洋科学家的日常科学研究中来。主要目标有两个：一是鼓励年轻女性从事科学事业，二是消除科学家的神秘感。在一年的时间里，该网站将以月刊的形式突出12位女科学家。虽然该网站将对所有科学产生影响，但我们将把重点放在女性海洋科学家身上，因为这是女性仍然没有充分代表的领域之一。此外，它还将强调科学职业道路的多样性以及选择科学作为职业的妇女的多样性。网站上的女性科学将涵盖海洋科学的许多分支学科。这些女性将有化学、生物学、物理学、工程学、数学、地质学或地球物理学的背景。这些女性将在全国各地的不同大学和研究机构从事不同的职业道路，包括研究、教学、管理，或者这些职业的组合。其他女性将从学士学位直接进入海洋科学领域，例如，程序员、实验室技术人员和数据分析师。该项目将利用万维网的独特功能，对12名女性海洋科学家进行个人介绍。每位女性的科学将以一种方式呈现，展示她们的兴趣如何与对地球的理解相适应。他们想要理解什么？他们是怎么理解的呢？到目前为止，他们学到了什么？他们未来的目标是什么？该网站将提供几种类型的信息。每个女人的科学基本原理将在一个小型科学课上清楚地解释。它还将提供科学家的办公室和实验室及其日常活动的视图，一篇最近发表的论文和一个简短的科学演讲。通过将所有这些信息放在网络上，用户将能够挑选和选择他们最感兴趣的内容，他们将能够沿着路径进入他们想要了解更多的领域。此外，还将有一个论坛，供公众提出自己的问题。为了有效地接触到学生，该网站将在每位女科学家所在的地区确定一到两所学校，使她们了解该网站及其目标，并向教师提供使用该网站的指南。该网站的一个独立但重要的部分将从历史的角度介绍从事海洋科学的女性。本节的目的是讲述海洋科学领域女性先驱的故事，并向公众传达过去半个世纪以来女性在海洋科学领域的角色发生了怎样的变化。随着新千年的临近，我们应该退后一步，评估一下女科学家所取得的成就，以及她们如何不再被认为是“独特的”，而是被科学界所接受和不可或缺的一部分。最后，WIMS网站将是迈向基于网络的妇女参与科学系列研讨会的第一步。万维网为学生、教师和公众提供了机会，使他们无需旅行就可以从地理上分散的无数教育家和专家那里汲取知识。这类资源对于提高代表性不足群体的学习经验至关重要。

9907682SmithThe project will develop a Web site that will engage the public and school children in the day to day science of women marine scientists. The primary goal is twofold: to encourage young women to pursue careers in science and to remove the mystery that surrounds being a scientist. Over the course of a year the site will highlight 12 woman scientists in a monthly magazine format. While the Web site would have impact on all the sciences, we will focus on women marine scientists since this is one of the fields within which women remain inadequately represented. In addition it will underscore the diversity of career paths in science and the diversity of the women who choose science as career. The science of the women on the Web site will cover many of the subdisciplines within marine science. The women will have backgrounds in chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, mathematics, geology, or geophysics. The women will be at different career paths directed toward research, teaching, administration, or perhaps a combination of these and at various universities and research institutions across the country. Other of the women will have gone directly into marine science from a bachelor's degree working, for example, as programmers, laboratory technicians, and data analysts. The project will use the unique capabilities of the World Wide Web to profile each of the 12 women marine scientists. The science of each of the women will be presented in a way that shows how their interests fit into understanding the Earth. What are they trying to understand? What do they do to understand it? What have they learned to date? What are their future goals? The site will make several types of information available. The basic principals of the science of each woman will be explained clearly in a mini science lesson. It will also provide views of the scientist's offices and laboratories and the daily activities therein, a recently published paper, and a short scientific talk. By placing all of this information on the Web, users will be able to pick and choose what interests them most and they will be able to follow paths to areas that they want to learn more about. In addition, there will be a forum for the public to ask their own questions. In order to reach students in an effective way, the site will identify one or two schools in the local area of each of the women scientists and make them aware of the Web site and its goals and provide the teachers with a guide to using the Web site. A separate but important part of the Web site will offer an historical perspective on women in marine science. The objective in this section is to tell the stories of pioneering women in marine science and to convey to the public the way in which women's roles in marine science have changed in the last half-century. As the new millennium approaches it is appropriate to step back and assess what women scientists have accomplished, how they are no longer considered 'unique' but instead are an accepted and integral part of the scientific community. Finally, the WIMS Web site will be a first step towards Web-based women in science seminar series. The World Wide Web provides opportunities for students, teachers, and the public to draw on the knowledge of myriad, geographically dispersed educators and experts without the necessity of travel. This type of resource is critically needed to enhance the learning experience for under-represented groups.