Oceans of Opportunity: Enhancing African-American Participation in the Marine Geosciences (Track 1)

机遇的海洋：加强非裔美国人对海洋地球科学的参与（轨道 1）

• 批准号: 0503540
• 负责人: Carol Pride
• 金额: --
• 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: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0503540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Oceans; Opportunity; Enhancing; African; American

Track 1: Oceans of Opportunity: Enhancing African-American Participationin the Marine GeosciencesThe supply of African American and other minority students to research laboratories and to graduate and undergraduate programs in the geosciences is far less than the demand currently set by diversity initiatives in the sciences. Potential causes include lack of exposure to the geosciences at a young age, lack of continuous reinforcement in the geosciences, lack of participation in meaningful research, and lack of mentorship. The Oceans of Opportunity program will address all four of these potential causal factors in two focus cities (Savannah and Atlanta, GA) with high densities of African Americans in the public school systems and in the universities represented by the PIs (Savannah State University [SSU] and Georgia State University [GSU]). This collaboration between a primarily undergraduate HBCU (SSU) and a research university with significant minority enrollment (GSU) with outreach branches to the school systems is anchored by support from the Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI). Oceans of Opportunity focuses on sustained involvement of students in the marine geosciences from kindergarten through high school. Anticipated results are that these students will later appear in university geoscience courses and research laboratories. The Oceans of Opportunity program consists of two pipelines extending geoscience research and academic endeavors from the universities and JOI to the public school systems. In the Track 1 research pipeline, research training groups (RTG) have been established at SSU to carry out research on the record of carbon storage and availability of natural resources in the nearby South Atlantic Bight (SAB), and on the history of Gulf Stream flow through study of sediment cores from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 164 and 171 (Blake Ridge and Blake Nose). In support of RTG development and focused SAB/Gulf Stream research, funding for one graduate student and one undergraduate per year is provided. High school students in a pilot marine science course hosted by the Savannah-Chatham School District's Oatland Island Education Center round out the RTG. In the Track 2 academic pipeline, Oceans of Opportunity is developing and implementing three of six planned interactive geoscience modules based on actual sediment samples from deep ocean drilling, replicas of ODP cores, and innovative lesson plans that expand use of these materials for students of all academic levels.

轨道1：海洋机遇：加强非洲裔美国人在海洋地球科学的发展非洲裔美国人和其他少数民族学生的研究实验室和研究生和本科生课程在地球科学的供应远远低于目前的科学多样性倡议所设定的需求。 潜在的原因包括年轻时缺乏对地球科学的接触，缺乏对地球科学的持续加强，缺乏对有意义的研究的参与，以及缺乏导师。 "机会之海"计划将在两个重点城市（萨凡纳和佐治亚州亚特兰大）解决所有这四个潜在的因果因素，这两个城市的公立学校系统和以PI为代表的大学（萨凡纳州立大学[SSU]和佐治亚州立大学[GSU]）中非洲裔美国人密度很高。 主要是本科HBCU（SSU）和一所研究型大学之间的这种合作，该大学具有重要的少数民族入学率（GSU），并具有学校系统的外联分支机构，由联合海洋学机构（JOI）的支持所锚定。 海洋的机会侧重于学生从幼儿园到高中持续参与海洋地球科学。 预期的结果是，这些学生以后将出现在大学地球科学课程和研究实验室。海洋的机会计划包括两个管道延伸地球科学研究和学术努力从大学和JOI到公立学校系统。 在轨道1研究管道中，SSU成立了研究培训小组（RTG），以研究附近南大西洋湾（SAB）的碳储存和自然资源可用性记录，并通过研究大洋钻探计划（ODP）第164和171航段（布莱克岭和布莱克鼻）的沉积物岩心研究墨西哥湾流的历史。 为了支持RTG的发展和重点SAB/湾流研究，每年提供一名研究生和一名本科生的资金。 参加由萨凡纳查塔姆学区的奥特兰岛教育中心主办的海洋科学试点课程的高中生完成了RTG。 在轨道2学术管道中，海洋的机会正在开发和实施六个计划的互动地球科学模块中的三个模块，这些模块基于深海钻探的实际沉积物样本，ODP岩心的复制品，以及创新的课程计划，为所有学术水平的学生扩展这些材料的使用。