Collaborative Research: COSEE: Ocean Systems - Building Capacity Through Collaboration

该奖项为海洋科学教育卓越中心-海洋系统（COSEE-OS）提供了新的资金。 通过不断努力，COSEE-OS已确定了未来增长的关键领域，包括：㈠促进创建在概念上与海洋气候内容相联系的科学、技术、工程和数学资源; ㈡利用网络基础设施扩大海洋科学家的影响;以及（iii）建立工具，以评估不同社区创造的基于共识的产品的质量。该中心将扩大其为海洋科学界创建灵活、可转移和以用户为中心的软件的成功模式。OS将通过为其他COSEE的科学家举办的研讨会分享这一模型。OS将扩大其区域举措，以产生全国性影响，重点是农村和内陆受众。此外，与扩大参与研究所建立的新伙伴关系正在改善代表性不足的少数群体参与OS机会的情况，并将成为更大网络的典范。通过支持现有的教育计划，OS将协助两个小的，但有声望的研究实验室-山沙漠岛生物实验室和毕格罗海洋科学实验室-在实现他们的目标，提供有效的研究经验，为K-12教育工作者和“年轻科学家”的培训。该中心的目标是在全国范围内建设能力，磨练个人能力，以开展有效的“更广泛影响”活动。这部分是通过与海岸科学中心（SSC）和新英格兰水族馆（NEAq）等非正规教育机构合作，帮助科学家开展BI活动来实现的。该中心还支持新英格兰海洋科学教育合作组织（NEOSEC），这是一个由40多个组织组成的多元化网络，由NEAq协调，通过培训其教育工作者规划和实施海洋科学家的BI活动来建设区域能力。这确保了当前海洋科学研究的内容和产品能够及时有效地传播给广大受众。与东北地区沿海和海洋观测系统协会（NERACOOS）的新正式合作伙伴关系将新英格兰的海洋科学教育工作者及其学生的骨干团结到NERACOOS科学家，为科学家提供增加BI的机会。 该中心与新英格兰地区海洋赠款扩展工作人员共同努力，实地测试有助于在新英格兰沿海社区建立气候变化问题共识的新分析工具，这是科学家增加BI活动的另一个机会。

This award provides renewed funding for the Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Ocean Systems (COSEE-OS). Through its ongoing efforts, COSEE-OS has identified key areas for future growth, including: (i) facilitating the creation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) resources that are conceptually linked to ocean-climate content; (ii) scaling up ocean scientists' impacts by taking advantage of networking infrastructure; and (iii) building tools to assess the quality of consensus-based products created by diverse communities. The Center will expand its successful model of creating software that is flexible, transferrable, and user focused for the ocean science community. OS will share this model via workshops for scientists at other COSEE's. OS will scale up its regional initiatives to have national impact, with a focus on rural and inland audiences. In addition, a new partnership with the Institute for Broadening Participation is improving engagement of underrepresented minorities in OS opportunities, and will serve as a model for the greater Network. By supporting existing educational programs, OS will assist two small, but prestigious, research laboratories -- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences -- in meeting their goal of providing effective research experiences for K-12 educators and "young scientists" in training. The Center's goal is to build Capacity nationwide, honing individuals' abilities to develop effective "Broader Impacts" (BI) activities. This is accomplished, in part, by engaging informal education institution partners such as Seacoast Science Center (SSC) and New England Aquarium (NEAq) to aid in the development of BI activities with scientists. The Center also supports the New England Ocean Sciences Education Collaborative (NEOSEC), a diverse network of over 40 organizations coordinated by NEAq, to build regional capacity by training its educators in planning and implementing BI activities for ocean scientists. This ensures that the content and products of current ocean science research can efficiently reach a broad audience in a timely fashion. A newly formalized partnership with the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) unites the New England cadre of ocean science educators and their students to the NERACOOS scientists, providing opportunities to increase the BI for scientists. The Center's joint efforts with New England regional Sea Grant Extension staff to field test new analytical tools that aid consensus building about climate change issues in New England coastal communities is another opportunity for scientists to increase their BI activities.