A Workshop to Achieve Broader Impacts of Geophysical Research

该奖项支持两个研讨会，让美国西南部的高中教师和研究科学家参与SpiNet教育地震学项目。这些研讨会将以这样一种方式进行开发和记录，以便为其他人提供一个模型和工具包，作为与地震学相关研究项目相关的“更广泛影响”工作的一部分。科学家将以观察员和参与者的身份参与这些讲习班，以确保将他们的需求和观点纳入讲习班模型和工具包。虽然这个项目是关于地震学的，但讲习班模式和工具包适用于其他学科的基于数据收集的教育策略。这些讲习班将为教师讲习班制定一个正式的模式，并开发一个供其他人使用的工具包。世界各地的科学家将能够使用SpiNet作为他们自己拓展的平台。目标是减少科学家参与地震学教育工作所需的时间和专业人员，从而增加追求这一途径以满足其标准2：更广泛影响工作的人数。此外，研讨会、工具包和支持基础设施将促进对如何最有效地吸引课堂教师和研究科学家参与教育地震学活动的理解。

This award supports two workshops to engage high school teachers and research scientists in the southwestern US in the SpiNet educational seismology program. The workshops will be developed and documented in such a manner as to provide a model and toolkit for others to implement as part of a "Broader Impacts" effort associated with a seismology-related research project. Scientists will be involved in the workshops, as observers and participants, to ensure incorporation of their needs and perspectives in the workshop model and toolkit, as well. While this project is about seismology, the workshop model and toolkit are applicable to data-collection-based educational strategies in other disciplines. The workshops will formalize a model for teacher workshops and develop a toolkit for others to use. Scientists around the world will be able to use SpiNet as a platform for their own outreach. The goal is to reduce the time and specialized personnel needed for scientists to get involved in educational seismology efforts, thereby increasing the number who will pursue this avenue to satisfy their Criterion 2: Broader Impacts efforts. Additionally, the workshops, toolkit, and supporting infrastructure will advance understanding of how to most effectively engage classroom teachers and research scientists in educational seismology activities.