International POLAR-PALOOZA - Emphasizing the "I" in IPY & Enabling Global Conversations on the Antarctic Treaty

该提案建立在目前美国国家科学基金会资助的POLAR-PALOOZA项目（#0632262）的基础上，该项目将“变化中的星球的故事”扩展到世界各地的学习者。这个项目是一个七国之旅（中国、马来西亚、南非、挪威、加拿大、墨西哥和澳大利亚），由一个多样化的极地研究团队讲述故事，他们也是引人入胜的故事讲述者。每个国家的博物馆或科学中心作为主办机构和当地协调员，举办1-2天的额外教育和外展活动。有面向广大观众的演讲，辅以与社区领导人和当地媒体的小组互动，提供了与极地专家直接互动的机会，以了解这些鲜为人知的地区，并了解为什么两极和极地研究与他们的生活相关。专门为教师、本科生或其他观众举办的研讨会利用了研究人员在场的机会。在任何一个国际站点，不超过2-3名演讲者将是美国人，其余团队由来自该地区和东道国的研究人员组成。除了个人互动之外，该项目还将利用已经获得资助的POLAR-PALOOZA成果，为博物馆和科学中心提供越来越多的高清视频的在线访问。

This proposal builds upon the current NSF funded POLAR-PALOOZA project (#0632262) extending the "Stories from a Changing Planet" to learners around the world. This project is a tour of seven nations (China, Malaysia, South Africa, Norway, Canada, Mexico, and Australia) featuring stories told by a diverse team of polar researchers who are also compelling storytellers. A museum or science center in each country serves as the host institution and local coordinator for a suite of 1-2 days of additional education and outreach activities. There are presentations for large general audiences, supplemented by small group interactions with community leaders and local media, providing opportunities to interact directly with polar experts in order to learn about these little-understood regions and to appreciate why the Poles and polar research are relevant to their lives. Special workshops for teachers, undergraduates or other audiences take advantage of the researcher's presence on site. At any one international site, no more than 2-3 of the presenters will be Americans with the rest of the team made up of researchers from the region and host nation. In addition to the personal interactions the project will leverage the already-funded POLAR-PALOOZA deliverables, and provide museums and science centers with online access to a growing set of HD videos.