Title: Collaborative Research: From Local to Extreme Environments: Deepening Earth Systems Science Understanding with GLOBE

合作研究：从局部到极端环境：通过GLOBE加深对地球系统科学的理解该项目致力于将当前海洋环境和生态系统的海洋科学研究纳入GLOBE计划，并为GLOBE学生提供比较当地环境和深海极端环境的机会。来自Ridge 2000 （R2K）、InterRidge和ChEss（深水化学合成生态系统生物地理学）项目的科学家和教育工作者正在与科学与学校中心（CSATS）合作，支持海洋科学家与中小学生之间的合作。这些项目从事深海系统的跨学科研究。这个项目的基础是“从本地到极端环境”（FLEXE）项目，学生在当地环境中收集数据，并将其与来自合作学校和极端环境（即深海）的等效数据进行比较。热液喷口和冷渗漏是被比较的极端环境。作为一级（独立）或二级（与另一所学校合作）的学生，参加三个主要活动：(1)协议驱动的实地考察和分析，以及来自极端环境的数据分析；(2)与合作学校的科学家和学生进行网络互动；(3)包括报告和同行评审在内的最终活动。每年都将执行收集关键环境参数（例如温度、盐度）的新协议，其中一些协议可以改编自现有的GLOBE协议。FLEXE论坛提供了一个在线数据系统，用于探索为该项目开发的学习活动，促进学生之间以及学生与科学家之间的互动。通过这个论坛，合作科学家向学生提交科学问题，让他们在进行研究时回答，并及时反馈答案。作为最终的Wrap Up体验，学生们写基于模板的科学报告，由其他参与的学生进行同行评审。教师专业发展资源，包括教师指南、在线培训和其他基于网络的学习和评估工具，也正在通过该项目开发。这些综合活动帮助学生发展探究技能，了解海洋环境中的生命及其当地生态系统，并对控制不同环境下宜居性的基本综合地球系统过程有了新的认识。

Collaborative Research: From Local to Extreme Environments: Deepening Earth Systems Science Understanding with GLOBEThis project is working to bring current ocean science research on marine environments and ecosystems into the GLOBE program and provide opportunities for GLOBE students to make comparisons between their local environments and extreme environments of the deep sea. Scientists and educators from the Ridge 2000 (R2K), InterRidge, and ChEss (Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems) programs engaged in interdisciplinary studies of deep-sea systems are working in collaboration with the Center for Science and the Schools (CSATS) to support collaborations between marine scientists and elementary and secondary students. The foundation of this project is the "From Local to Extreme Environments" (FLEXE) program, in which students collect data in their local environment and compare it with equivalent data from partner schools and from an extreme environment, namely the deep sea. Hydrothermal vents and cold seeps are among the extreme environments being compared. Students, working either as a Tier 1 (stand-alone) or Tier 2 (paired with another school) effort, participate in three main activities: (1) protocol-driven fieldwork and analysis, and analysis of data from an extreme environment; (2) web-based interactions with scientists and students from partner schools; and (3) culminating activities that include reporting and peer review. New protocols to collect key environmental parameters (e.g., temperature, salinity), some of which can be adapted from existing GLOBE protocols, will be implemented each year. The FLEXE Forum provides an online data system for exploring Learning Activities developed for the project and for facilitating interactions between students and between students and scientists. Through this Forum, collaborating scientists submit scientific questions to the students for them to answer as they carry out their investigations, and provide feedback on the answers in a timely manner. As a culminating Wrap Up experience, students write template-based scientific reports that are peer-reviewed by other participating students. Teacher professional development resources, including Teacher's Guides, online training, and other web-based learning and assessment tools, are also being developed through this project. These combined activities are helping students to develop inquiry skills, learn about life in the marine environment and their local ecosystems, and gain new understanding of the fundamental integrated Earth system processes that control habitability in diverse settings.