Workshop: Citizen Science in the Wired World

该奖项将资助一个研讨会，将媒体和教育专家与环境科学家聚集在一起，讨论让公众参与并加深他们对环境问题的理解的新方法。 重点是复杂系统思维以及如何更好地传达非线性动力学，临界点和耦合自然-人类系统中的灾难性变化的概念。 一个特别的重点是设法改善有关气候变化影响的非正规教育。 该讲习班是确定新方法以吸引公众兴趣和提高他们对复杂环境问题的认识的第一步。 它将不同的人群（媒体、教育和环境科学）聚集在一个适当的场所，以激发关于利用网络技术进行非正式环境科学教育的变革性思维。 该研讨会结合了两个引人注目的方面：可以通过互联网广泛访问的模拟和游戏软件的学习潜力;以及复杂动力系统中的惊喜概念。 与会者将包括这两个领域的专门知识。 预计该讲习班将对非正规科学教育和环境科学素养产生广泛影响。 这次跨学科会议也有可能促进环境科学，媒体科学和教育界的新合作。讲习班将有25-30名参加者，在旧金山弗朗西斯科的科学博物馆Exploratorium举行。

This award will fund a workshop to bring together media and education specialists with environmental scientists to discuss new ways to engage the public and further their understanding of environmental issues. The focus is on complex system thinking and how to communicate better the notion of nonlinear dynamics, tipping points and catastrophic change in coupled natural-human systems. A special emphasis is finding ways to improve informal education regarding the impacts of climate change. This workshop represents a first step towards defining new ways to attract public interest and improve their understanding of complex environmental problems. It brings together different groups of people (media, education and environmental science) in an appropriate venue to stimulate transformational thinking on the use of web-based technology for informal environmental science education. The workshop combines two compelling aspects: the learning potential of simulation and gaming software that can be made widely accessible over the internet; and the concept of surprise within complex dynamical systems. The participants will include expertise from both of these areas. The workshop is expected to broadly impact informal science education and environmental science literacy. There is also the potential that this interdisciplinary meeting will catalyze new collaborations across the environmental science, media science and education communities. The workshop will include 25-30 participants and be held at the Exploratorium, which is a science museum in San Francisco.