COSEE: Education Aquanauts Educator Enhancement Collaboration

COSEE：教育 Aquanauts 教育者增强合作

• 批准号: 0828074
• 负责人: Russell Cuhel
• 金额: $ 15.01万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0828074&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COSEE; Education; Aquanauts; Educator; Enhancement

The Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) seek to promote partnerships between research scientists and educators, disseminate best practices in ocean sciences education, and promote ocean education as a charismatic, interdisciplinary vehicle for creating a more scientifically literate workforce and citizenry. One way to increase public awareness of the oceans and their importance in economic and environmental considerations is through educator enhancement and public outreach activities based on scientific inquiry. COSEE Great Lakes is uniquely situated to take advantage of mounting global concern over freshwater resources. The Great Lakes may demonstrate faster response times to global climate change, as already evidenced by a longer ice-free season on the lower lakes. The Great Lakes have also been susceptible to an onslaught of invasive species appearances, predominantly through the shipping lanes of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Research activities on Lake Michigan ecosystem dynamics by the PIs at the Great Lakes Wisconsin Aquatic Technology and Environmental Research (WATER) Institute can provide an ideal opportunity for research education collaboration supporting the mission of COSEE, especially COSEE Great Lakes. During the last decade, more than half a dozen animal species have invaded the upper Great Lakes, some of them causing unequivocal and perhaps cataclysmic alterations in large lake ecosystems. Lake Michigan in particular provides readily accessible opportunities for sampling and understanding of invasive species ecology. These issues are widespread in marine environments as well, and comparative learning can be stimulating. COSEE Great Lakes provides the perfect venue for development and dissemination of exciting hands-on, interactive aquatic science experiential learning opportunities. This program seeks to provide exciting, immersion science learning and resource exposure for teachers of middle and high school students and informal science educators. Specific objectives are: (1) expand educator awareness of exotic species occurrence and activities in local waters as a means for introducing larger topics of aquatic ecosystem processes; (2) engage educators in 1-week, intense hands-on workshops using modern-day tools both onboard a research vessel and analytical instrumentation at the laboratory bench to test specific, tractable hypotheses; and (3) assist the COSEE Great Lakes in providing educators with resources to access current environmental research activities and results in their own region and nationally. Participating science teachers serving primarily middle and high school audiences, and informal science educators will be recruited through collaboration with COSEE Great Lakes, drawing in part upon our own substantial existing base of participants in JASON and other outreach programs.

卓越海洋科学教育中心（COSEE）旨在促进研究科学家和教育工作者之间的伙伴关系，传播海洋科学教育的最佳实践，并促进海洋教育作为一种富有魅力的跨学科工具，以创造更具科学素养的劳动力和公民。提高公众对海洋及其在经济和环境方面的重要性的认识的一个方法是通过教育工作者的提高和基于科学探究的公众外联活动。COSEE五大湖所处的位置独特，可以利用全球对淡水资源日益增加的关切。 五大湖对全球气候变化的反应速度可能更快，这一点已经由较低湖泊的无冰期更长所证明。五大湖也容易受到入侵物种的冲击，主要是通过圣劳伦斯航道的航道。在密歇根湖生态系统动态的研究活动，由PI在五大湖威斯康星州水产技术和环境研究所（水）可以提供一个理想的机会，研究教育合作支持COSEE的使命，特别是COSEE五大湖。在过去的十年里，超过六种动物物种入侵了五大湖的上游，其中一些物种对大湖生态系统造成了明确的，甚至是灾难性的改变。密歇根湖尤其为取样和了解入侵物种生态提供了方便的机会。 这些问题在海洋环境中也很普遍，比较学习可以起到激励作用。COSEE五大湖为开发和传播令人兴奋的动手，互动的水产科学体验式学习机会提供了完美的场所。该计划旨在为初中和高中学生的教师和非正式的科学教育工作者提供令人兴奋的沉浸式科学学习和资源曝光。具体目标是：（1）提高教育工作者对外来物种在当地沃茨的出现和活动的认识，以此作为介绍水生生态系统过程的更大主题的手段;（2）让教育工作者参加为期一周的密集实践讲习班，使用研究船上的现代工具和实验室工作台上的分析仪器来测试具体的、易处理的假设;以及（3）协助COSEE五大湖为教育工作者提供资源，使他们能够了解本地区和国家当前的环境研究活动和成果。参与科学教师服务主要是初中和高中的观众，和非正式的科学教育工作者将通过与COSEE五大湖合作招募，部分利用我们自己的大量现有基础的参与者在JASON和其他推广计划。