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

合作研究：COSEE：海洋系统 - 通过合作建设能力

• 批准号: 1038809
• 负责人: Ashanti Johnson
• 金额: $ 14.25万
• 依托单位: Institute for Broadening Participation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1038809&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; COSEE; Ocean; Systems

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.

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。通过不断的努力，COSEE-OS 已经确定了未来发展的关键领域，包括：(i) 促进在概念上与海洋气候内容相关的科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 资源的创建； (ii) 利用网络基础设施扩大海洋科学家的影响； (iii) 构建工具来评估不同社区创建的基于共识的产品的质量。该中心将扩展其为海洋科学界创建灵活、可转移且以用户为中心的软件的成功模式。 OS 将通过研讨会为其他 COSEE 的科学家分享该模型。 OS 将扩大其区域举措，以产生全国影响，重点关注农村和内陆受众。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对 OS 机会的参与，并将成为更大网络的典范。通过支持现有的教育项目，操作系统将协助两个小型但享有盛誉的研究实验室——山漠岛生物实验室和毕格罗海洋科学实验室——实现为 K-12 教育工作者和培训中的“年轻科学家”提供有效研究经验的目标。该中心的目标是在全国范围内进行能力建设，磨练个人开展有效的“更广泛影响”（BI）活动的能力。这在一定程度上是通过与海岸科学中心 (SSC) 和新英格兰水族馆 (NEAq) 等非正式教育机构合作伙伴合作来帮助科学家开展 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 NEAq 协调的由 40 多个组织组成的多元化网络，通过培训其教育工作者为海洋科学家规划和实施 BI 活动来建设区域能力。这保证了当前海洋科学研究的内容和产品能够高效、及时地到达广大受众。与东北地区沿海和海洋观测系统协会 (NERACOOS) 新近正式建立的合作伙伴关系将新英格兰海洋科学教育者骨干及其学生与 NERACOOS 科学家联合起来，为科学家提供了提高 BI 的机会。该中心与新英格兰地区海洋资助推广工作人员共同努力，实地测试新的分析工具，帮助就新英格兰沿海社区的气候变化问题达成共识，这是科学家增加其 BI 活动的另一个机会。