Collaborative Research: CI-Team Demonstration: Developing a Model for Engagement of Citizen Scientists: Lake Associations

该项目将吸引公民新的网络基础设施（CI）的工具和数据分析的开发;培训计算机科学（CS）的学生与公民合作，从而改变他们设想的可能的角色和责任在他们未来的职业生涯;并提供湖泊数据更广泛的研究，政策？该项目旨在促进和教育社区，从而扩大世界各地学生、公民科学家和非专业社区对湖泊生态系统的了解。通过让公民作为一个致力于了解和分享湖泊过程信息的社区的充分参与者，他们对持续开发和使用CI工具的参与将得到加强和维持。 该项目的目标是让一个公民科学家团体（苏纳皮湖保护协会）参与传播与信息的开发和使用，并在此过程中创建和评估一个模式，让更广泛的公民参与需求的表达，以及传播与信息工具的开发和使用。这将通过关注三个目标来实现：（1）与公民科学家一起创建CI，以呈现真实的？]该项目的主要目标是：（1）以可访问和有用的形式向公众提供时间和存档的湖泊浮标数据，同时培训和向湖泊协会传授技能;（2）教育和培训CS学生与公民科学家和非专业社区进行有效互动，共同开发CI;（3）开发一个模型，扩大CI的范围和影响，并采用一种方法评估其成功。该项目还将评估和记录产品对K？8教育这些目标将通过一系列的三个讲习班来实现，在区域和国家一级，公民科学家和知识分子的参与越来越广泛。8教育家在会议之间，项目学生和研究人员与湖泊协会成员及其教育工作人员一起工作，将所需的功能实现到门户网站中？]基于系统。与全球湖泊生态观测网的密切联系将有助于确保在全世界广泛传播研究结果。

This project will engage citizens new to cyberinfrastructure (CI) in the development of tools and data analysis; train computer science (CS) students to work with citizens, thereby transforming what they envision as possible roles and responsibilities in their future careers; and, provide lake data to the broader research, policy?]making, and educational communities, thereby broadening understanding of lake ecosystems by students, citizen scientists, and the lay community worldwide. By engaging citizens as full participants in a community committed to understanding and sharing information on lake processes, their involvement in the continued development and use of CI tools will be enhanced and sustained. The goal of this project is to bring a citizen scientist group (Lake Sunapee Protective Association) into the development and use of CI and, in the process, create and evaluate a model for engaging a broader citizen base in the articulation of needs, and the development and use of CI tools. This will be done by focusing on three objectives: (1) create CI with citizen scientists to present real?]time and archived lake buoy data to the lay public in accessible and useful forms, while simultaneously training and transferring skills to the lake association; (2) educate and train CS students to interact effectively with citizen scientists and lay communities to co-develop CI; and (3) develop a model that expands the reach and impact of CI and employ a method to assess its success. The project will also assess and document the suitability of products to K?]8 education. These objectives will be accomplished through a series of three workshops with increasingly wider participation regionally and nationally for citizen scientists and K?]8 educators. Between meetings, project students and researchers working with members of the lake association and their education staff will implement the desired functionality into a portal?]based system. Close linkages to the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) will help ensure that the results are broadly disseminated worldwide.