FSML: Experiential classroom modernization for the Duke University Marine Laboratory

FSML：杜克大学海洋实验室的体验式课堂现代化

• 批准号: 0934169
• 负责人: Cindy Van Dover
• 金额: $ 23.66万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-15 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0934169&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Experiential; classroom; modernization; Duke

Duke University is awarded a grant for infrastructural and equipment improvements to a classroom building that serves as the home for experiential learning courses in marine sciences at its Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina. These classroom improvements include installation of audiovisual systems, modernization and expansion of casework, replacement of teaching microscopes, replacement of seawater tables, and upgrade of the facility to meet the standards of the American Disabilities Act. The classrooms serve a broad academic base that includes undergraduate and graduate students from Duke University and undergraduates from more than thirty colleges and universities that belong to the Marine Science and Education Consortium (MSEC). The classrooms are also used by the Duke Talent Identification Program summer program, which serves gifted children (grades 8 through 10) from around the country, and by the BOOST program, which serves under-represented minority students at elementary and middle school levels. The Marine Laboratory is a center for natural and social science research and education in marine systems, where NSF-funded researchers and their students study interactions between humans and the environment. Key research themes include conservation biology of marine mammals, bioacoustics and behavior in marine systems, marine microbes and carbon fluxes, environmental sociology, physical-biological interactions in the marine environment, fisheries policy and management, chemical ecology, and geospatial ecology. The coastal setting of the Marine Laboratory behind the barrier islands of North Carolina and the easy access to natural and disturbed environments makes it ideal as a center for experiential learning and the proposed classroom improvements will support these field-learning opportunities.

杜克大学获得了一笔赠款，用于改善北卡罗来纳州博福特海洋实验室的一栋教学楼的基础设施和设备，该教学楼是海洋科学体验式学习课程的所在地。这些课堂改进包括安装视听系统、更新和扩大个案工作、更换教学显微镜、更换海水水位，以及升级设施以符合《美国残疾人法》的标准。这些教室服务于广泛的学术基础，包括杜克大学的本科生和研究生，以及属于海洋科学和教育联盟(MSEC)的30多所学院和大学的本科生。杜克大学人才鉴定计划暑期计划和Boost计划也使用了这些教室，前者服务于全国各地的天才儿童(8至10年级)，后者服务于小学和中学水平上代表不足的少数族裔学生。海洋实验室是一个海洋系统的自然科学和社会科学研究和教育中心，NSF资助的研究人员和他们的学生在这里研究人类与环境之间的相互作用。主要研究主题包括海洋哺乳动物的保护生物学、海洋系统中的生物声学和行为、海洋微生物和碳通量、环境社会学、海洋环境中的物理-生物相互作用、渔业政策和管理、化学生态学和地球空间生态学。海洋实验室位于北卡罗来纳州障碍岛后面的沿海环境中，很容易进入自然和受干扰的环境，这使其成为体验学习的理想中心，拟议的课堂改进将支持这些实地学习机会。