Tracking climate in your backyard: A museum 4-H collaborative

该项目与社区雨、雹和雪合作网络(CoCoRaHS)合作，为隶属于4-H俱乐部的专业教育工作者提供培训和资源，让大量高年级和中学生参与公民科学，监测温度和降水。该项目涉及五个组织之间的协作：古生物研究所(PRI)设有地球系统研究伙伴关系；康奈尔大学纽约州立大学合作推广中心将作为项目开发的重点和全国传播的渠道；东北区域气候中心--它维护着一个基于地理信息系统的区域气候信息的大型数据库，包括为纽约州大学；康奈尔资源信息系统研究所，它专门对气候数据等空间数据应用全球定位系统/地理信息系统方法；以及CoCoRaHS本身，其总部设在科罗拉多州立大学。PRI地球科学教育工作者正在为纽约州立大学4-H教育工作者提供专业发展、课程计划和设备，协调每个组织的资源。参加4-H项目的学生由他们的志愿者领导指导，他们又接受了4-H专业教育人员的培训，以监测具有重要科学意义的关于降水的高空间分辨率数据；随着时间的推移，这些数据可能会反映气候变化，并将与各自4-H社区的环境紧密联系在一起。项目成果包括适合4-H俱乐部及其社区需要的适龄课程。该方案正在纽约州进行原型设计，目标是维持纽约州的方案编制，同时努力在该项目的下一阶段在全国范围内实施。

In association with the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow (CoCoRaHS) Network, this project is providing professional educators affiliated 4-H clubs with training and resources to involve large numbers of upper elementary and secondary school students in citizen science, monitoring temperature and precipitation. The project involves a collaboration among five organizations: the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), which has a specialty in Earth system research partnerships; Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) NY State 4-H, which will be the focus for project development and the conduit for national dissemination; the Northeast Regional Climate Center, which maintains a large database of GIS-based regional climate information, including for NY State; the Cornell Institute for Resource Information Systems, which specializes in application of GPS/GIS methods to spatial data such as climate data; and CoCoRaHS itself, which is based at Colorado State University. PRI geoscience educators are providing professional development, lesson plans, and equipment for NY State 4-H educators, coordinating the resources of each of the respective organizations. Students participating in 4-H programs are being guided by their volunteer leaders, who in turn have been trained by 4-H professional educators, to monitor high spatial resolution data on precipitation that is important scientifically; over time these data may reflect climate change and will be tightly tied to the environment of their respective 4-H communities. The project deliverables include age-appropriate curricula adapted to the needs of 4-H clubs and their communities. The programming is being prototyped in New York State, with goals of sustaining the NY programming while working toward national implementation in the next phase of the project.