Planning Grant: Developing a plan for a Watershed Education and Research Center

规划补助金：制定流域教育和研究中心计划

• 批准号: 0935452
• 负责人: Ann Rypstra
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Miami 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: 2010-02-01 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0935452&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Developing; plan; Watershed

Miami University is awarded a grant which will enable its Ecology Research Center (ERC) to collaborate with a local natural area, the Hueston Woods State Park (HWSP), in the development of a plan for a Watershed Education and Research Center. Miami ecologists have developed a unique understanding of the ecological processes operating in the watershed that drains into the HWSP reservoir and the impact regional landscape changes have on the aquatic environment. Formalizing this relationship between the ERC and HWSP will make this watershed research accessible to a broader audience. The project includes: (1) focus groups targeting varied stakeholder communities (including boaters, vacationers, local residents, area farmers, researchers, educators, and others) to gather ideas for the center, (2) an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students from the Miami Design Collaborative (MDC), which includes marketers, psychologists, graphics designers and architects, to develop a plan for the graphical, virtual, and physical layout of the center, and (3) researchers, university administrators, state and federal legislators, private foundations, and granting agencies to create a plan for funding the center. The vision is for a center that enables visitors to interact with researchers and participate in realtime data collection and hypothesis testing through both virtual and hands-on experiments.Soliciting the input of varied stakeholder communities in the planning process, including explicitly seeking input from minority communities in nearby urban areas, is likely to ensure their support for the collaboration. Involving a truly interdisciplinary team in the planning process will result in a dynamic plan that incorporates the interests of that broad audience. In the long-term, generations of students, researchers, teachers, fishermen, boaters, and others will experience first-hand the challenges of interpreting data, the intricacies of designing experiments, and thrill of discovery.

迈阿密大学获得一笔赠款，使其生态研究中心(ERC)能够与当地自然区域休斯顿森林州立公园(HWSP)合作，制定流域教育和研究中心的计划。迈阿密生态学家对排入HWSP水库的分水岭的生态过程以及区域景观变化对水环境的影响有了独特的理解。ERC和HWSP之间的这种关系的正式化将使更广泛的受众能够接触到这一分水岭研究。该项目包括：(1)针对不同利益相关者社区(包括船民、度假者、当地居民、当地农民、研究人员、教育工作者和其他人)的焦点小组，为中心收集想法；(2)迈阿密设计合作(MDC)的一个由教师和学生组成的跨学科团队，其中包括营销员、心理学家、平面设计师和建筑师，为中心的图形、虚拟和物理布局制定计划；以及(3)研究人员、大学管理人员、州和联邦立法者、私人基金会和授权机构，以创建中心的资金计划。我们的愿景是建立一个中心，使参观者能够与研究人员互动，并通过虚拟和实践实验参与实时数据收集和假设检验。在规划过程中征求不同利益相关者社区的意见，包括明确寻求附近城市地区少数族裔社区的意见，可能会确保他们对合作的支持。让一个真正跨学科的团队参与规划过程将产生一个包含广大受众利益的动态规划。从长远来看，一代又一代的学生、研究人员、教师、渔民、船民和其他人将亲身经历解释数据的挑战、设计实验的复杂性和发现的兴奋。