EARTH - The Operators' Manual

地球 - 操作手册

• 批准号: 0917564
• 负责人: Geoffrey Haines-Stiles
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: Geoff Haines-Stiles Productions
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917564&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EARTH; Operators; Manual

The purpose of this project is to develop a "user's guide" to the present and projected energy resources of our planet and the relationship to climate change. It will prototype and evaluate new ways of providing the public with the information and tools to make wiser choices about powering homes, schools, businesses, and communities. The project uses a hybrid model of science communication that includes video, in-person presentations, and Web 2.0 social networking. National PBS broadcasts of three hour long programs will reach large audiences influencing the understanding of climate change in measurable ways. Events at four science centers and natural history museums located across the country will explore how increased knowledge of Earth Science informs behavior. The project's social networking tools and resources will motivate and support accessible real-world activities. The multiple PBS broadcasts of the hour long programs over three years could potentially reach an audience of 10 million. Internet users accessing the short videos, authoritative information, and blogs could reach 200,000 to 500,000 per month; the museum visitors attending the live presentations of researchers could reach approximately 80,000-100,000 over the duration of the project.The core project team includes Richard Alley, chair of the National Academy of Sciences panel on Abrupt Climate Change, who will host the television programs. Andy Revkin, author and science journalist for The New York Times, will be a key project advisor and co-host for some of the television programs. Outreach partners include science centers across the nation and the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science. The project will leverage existing NSF-supported projects such as the Future Earth Initiative led by the Science Museum of Minnesota and ASTC's Communicating Climate Change.Rockman Et Al will evaluate the project impacts working from front-end to summative stages to understand the reactions of media, online, and on-site users. Proposed project impacts include increasing participants' understanding of how the Earth's system is affected by human uses of energy and the impact of those energy uses on climate. Other impacts include changes in attitude and behavior affecting individual uses of energy. Evaluations will be conducted with TV show viewers as well as science center and website visitors using quasi-experimental, quantitative, and qualitative study designs.

该项目的目的是为我们星球目前和预计的能源资源以及与气候变化的关系编写一份“用户指南”。 它将原型化和评估为公众提供信息和工具的新方法，以便在为家庭、学校、企业和社区供电方面做出更明智的选择。 该项目使用了一种混合的科学传播模式，包括视频，亲自演示和Web 2.0社交网络。国家公共广播公司播出的三小时长的节目将以可衡量的方式影响广大观众对气候变化的理解。 位于全国各地的四个科学中心和自然历史博物馆的活动将探讨如何增加地球科学知识的行为。 该项目的社交网络工具和资源将激励和支持可访问的现实世界活动。 PBS在三年内多次播放长达一小时的节目，可能会吸引1000万观众。 每月访问短视频、权威信息、博客的网民可达20 - 50万;在项目期间，参观博物馆的研究人员现场演示的人数可能达到约8万至10万人。核心项目团队包括美国国家科学院气候突变小组主席理查德·艾黎，谁将主持电视节目。《纽约》的作家兼科学记者安迪·雷夫金将担任一些电视节目的主要项目顾问和联合主持人。 外联合作伙伴包括全国各地的科学中心和促进奇卡诺人和美洲土著人科学发展协会。 该项目将利用现有的NSF支持的项目，如明尼苏达科学博物馆和ASTC的沟通气候变化的未来地球倡议。洛克曼等将评估项目的影响，从前端到总结阶段，以了解媒体，在线和现场用户的反应。 拟议的项目影响包括使参与者更多地了解地球系统如何受到人类使用能源的影响以及这些能源使用对气候的影响。其他影响包括影响个人能源使用的态度和行为的变化。 评估将与电视节目观众以及科学中心和网站访问者使用准实验，定量和定性的研究设计进行。