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，讨论吸引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和如何更好地沟通非线性动力学，引爆点和耦合的自然-人类系统的灾难性变化的概念。特别强调的是寻找改善关于气候变化影响的非正式教育的方法。这次研讨会代表了确定吸引公众兴趣和提高他们对复杂环境问题理解的新方法的第一步。它将不同的群体（媒体、教育和环境科学）聚集在一个适当的场所，以激发关于在非正式环境科学教育中使用基于网络的技术的变革性思考。研讨会结合了两个引人注目的方面：模拟和游戏软件的学习潜力，可以通过互联网广泛访问；以及复杂动力系统中的惊喜概念。与会者将包括来自这两个领域的专家。预计该研讨会将广泛影响非正式科学教育和环境科学素养。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。研讨会将包括25-30名参与者，并在旧金山的科学博物馆探索博物馆举行。

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.