Living Liquid: A Pathways Project Visualizing the Ocean's Microbes and Their Impact on Our Planet

生命液体：可视化海洋微生物及其对地球影响的途径项目

• 批准号: 1011084
• 负责人: Jennifer Frazier
• 金额: $ 21.46万
• 依托单位: Exploratorium
• 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: 2010-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1011084&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Living; Liquid; Pathways; Project; Visualizing

The Exploratorium's Pathways project will develop three exhibit prototypes intended to identify effective strategies for creating visualization tools that will engage the public in emerging research on ocean microbes and their impact on our planet. The research will inform a future full-scale development project to use real-time data visualizations on the connection between ocean microbes and climate, an essential principle of climate literacy as identified by the interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program. In partnership with the Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education at the University of Hawaii and the Visualization Interface and Design Innovation Group at UC Davis, prototypes will be designed and developed through a collaborative and iterative process that includes a front-end study of visitors' interests and prior knowledge related to ocean microbes, and interviews with scientists to identify potential datasets and activities. Word Craft will identify promising strategies for engaging the public and describe findings and implications for future development and will test prototypes with Exploratorium visitors through a formative evaluation process. The primary audience for the research is a cross-disciplinary professional audience, consisting of the immediate project team of computer scientists, microbiologists, exhibit designers, and the wider field of informal science education, scientists, and technologists who will be reached through the dissemination efforts. A survey of current visualizations used in public media will be produced and disseminated along with project findings at the Association of Science-Technology Centers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Science on a Sphere Users Group Meeting, the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education, the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence, the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography meetings, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. The broader impact of the project will be the knowledge generated on ways to engage informal learners using visualizations of real scientific data, which will be of interest to both scientists and educators across disciplines.

探索博物馆的路径项目将开发三个展览原型，旨在确定创建可视化工具的有效战略，使公众参与关于海洋微生物及其对我们星球的影响的新研究。这项研究将为未来的全面开发项目提供信息，该项目将使用关于海洋微生物与气候之间联系的实时数据可视化，这是美国跨部门全球变化研究计划确定的气候扫盲的基本原则。将与夏威夷大学微生物海洋学研究和教育中心和加州大学戴维斯分校可视化界面和设计创新小组合作，通过协作和迭代过程设计和开发原型，其中包括对参观者的兴趣和与海洋微生物有关的先验知识进行前端研究，并与科学家进行访谈，以确定潜在的数据集和活动。Word Craft将确定吸引公众的有希望的战略，并描述结果和对未来发展的影响，并将通过形成性评估过程与探索博物馆的参观者一起测试原型。研究的主要受众是跨学科的专业受众，包括计算机科学家、微生物学家、展品设计师的直接项目团队，以及将通过传播努力接触到的更广泛的非正式科学教育领域的科学家和技术专家。将在科学技术中心协会、国家海洋和大气管理局的科学球体用户小组会议、戈登科学和教育可视化研究会议、海洋科学教育卓越中心、美国湖泊和海洋学学会会议和美国科学促进会年会上，编制和传播一份关于公共媒体目前使用的可视化的调查结果。该项目的更广泛影响将是产生关于如何利用真实科学数据的可视化吸引非正式学习者参与的知识，这将引起各学科的科学家和教育工作者的兴趣。