School-based Ecology and Environmental Discoveries (SEEDS)

以学校为基础的生态和环境发现（SEEDS）是哥伦比亚大学的两个研究单位——拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球观测站（LDEO）和环境研究与保护中心（CERC）——和四所纽约市公立高中——青年妇女领导学校、纽约港学校、弗雷德里克·道格拉斯学院和柯蒂斯高中之间的合作项目。四所参与的高中主持了环境研究项目，调查当地湿地、水体和大气的状况。学校建筑、场地和实验室是各个项目的“基地”。LDEO和CERC提供科学领导，技术专长，指导，并获得无法在高中安装的分析设备。作为项目的一部分，哥伦比亚大学的暑期研究项目提供以实践、探究和数据为基础的指导为导向的协作性专业发展。每所学校各有一名教师和两名学生在夏季全职参与；每学年，每所学校有两到四个班级参与，尽管强度较低。在LDEO过去4年的试点项目中，研究科学家、科学教师和高中生组成的团队制作了新颖的研究质量数据集。强调生成高质量的数据可以提高参与教师的教学方法，吸引纽约市公立学校的学生进入STEM职业，并提高参与学生的学术成就。

School-based Ecology and Environmental Discoveries (SEEDS) is a collaborative program between two research units at Columbia University - the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) and the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC) - and four New York City public high schools - The Young Women's Leadership School, The New York Harbor School, Frederick Douglass Academy, and Curtis High School. The four participating high schools host environmental research projects investigating conditions in local wetlands, water bodies and the atmosphere. School buildings, grounds and laboratories are the "home base" for the individual projects. LDEO and CERC provide scientific leadership, technical expertise, mentoring, and access to analytical equipment that cannot be installed in the high schools. As part of the program, Columbia's Summer Research Program provides collaborative professional development oriented to hands-on, inquiry- and data-based instruction. One teacher and two students from each school participate full-time over the summer months; two to four classes at each school participate, albeit less intensely, during the school year. During pilot projects based at LDEO during the past 4 years, teams of research scientists, science teachers and high school students produced novel research-quality datasets. Emphasis on generating high quality data enhances the pedagogy of the participating teachers, draws NYC public school students into STEM careers, and improves the academic success of participating students.