Toads, Roads, and Nodes: Collaborative Course-Based Research on the Landscape Ecology of Amphibian Populations

蟾蜍、道路和节点：基于协作课程的两栖动物种群景观生态学研究

• 批准号: 1140911
• 负责人: Stephanie Hampton
• 金额: $ 12.8万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140911&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Toads; Roads; Nodes; Collaborative; Course

This project links networks of undergraduate ecology courses to carry out a collaborative, hands-on research project focusing on a large-scale analysis of habitat requirements for amphibians. For many students, this project is their first experience working with large data sets, and the project's methods are designed to sharpen the highly transferable skills (i.e., data integration and analysis) necessary for doing science in the digital age. Students in each course match United States Geographical Service data on amphibian populations from their own region with habitat data from Google Earth. Their data are submitted to a shared database that is analyzed to determine amphibian-habitat associations. Intellectual merit: The project provides useful information on the effects of land use on amphibian populations in the U.S. It also augments an important public database by adding habitat and landscape data for each amphibian survey location. Broader impacts: From an educational perspective, this project provides an authentic research experience for up to 400 students from a diverse group of schools including two-year colleges, public research universities, and historically minority-serving universities. Assessment of the project focuses on the effects of a collaborative research experience on students' interest in science, student attitudes about science, and student retention in science programs.This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts toward Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education.

该项目连接本科生生态学课程网络，开展合作，动手研究项目，重点是对两栖动物栖息地要求的大规模分析。对于许多学生来说，这个项目是他们第一次使用大型数据集，项目的方法旨在提高高度可转移的技能（即，数据集成和分析）在数字时代进行科学研究所必需的。每门课程的学生都将美国地理服务局关于他们所在地区两栖动物种群的数据与谷歌地球的栖息地数据相匹配。他们的数据被提交到一个共享的数据库，该数据库被分析以确定两栖动物栖息地的关联。智力优点：该项目提供了有关土地利用对美国两栖动物种群影响的有用信息，还通过为每个两栖动物调查地点添加栖息地和景观数据来增强重要的公共数据库。更广泛的影响：从教育的角度来看，该项目为来自不同学校的多达400名学生提供了真实的研究体验，包括两年制学院，公立研究型大学和历史上为少数民族服务的大学。该项目的评估重点是合作研究经验对学生对科学的兴趣，学生对科学的态度，以及学生在科学课程中的保留率的影响。该项目由生物科学局，生物基础设施部和教育和人力资源局共同资助，本科教育部作为他们对本科生物学教育的愿景和变化的努力的一部分。