Disseminating Human-ecodynamics Research

传播人类生态动力学研究

• 批准号: 1345259
• 负责人: Sophia Perdikaris
• 金额: $ 1.96万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1345259&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Disseminating; Human; ecodynamics; Research

This award supports an innovative science/community partnership through the Barbuda Research Complex (a collaborative partnership of researchers from the City University of New York and key community stakeholders in Barbuda, West Indies) that would facilitate the development of immersive science research opportunities for informal education on active field research conducted in Barbuda over the past seven years. For the last four years, the PI has been engaged in an Arctic Social Science Program supported REU Site project "Islands of Change," which explored the teleconnections between Arctic human ecodynamic systems and those of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Although the community of Barbuda is a long way from the Arctic in miles, Perdikaris makes these connections salient by borrowing conceptually from the UN's program "Many Strong Voices" (MSV). MSV is a program that connects Arctic communities and SIDS communities because of the comparable social and cultural challenges they face being on the front line of rapid environmental change. This project is in direct response to the Barbudan community's expressed need for sustained science education opportunities, which happen outside of the classroom and beyond the field season. The PI and her research team have developed a model for community engagement, which culminates in a permanent educational legacy for research projects, envisioned as an education and museum space that would use placed-based learning techniques to communicate understanding of science to a public audience. In addition, the PI and her research team proposes to create an exhibition in Barbuda, which incorporates traditional and local knowledge that will ultimately travel to Iceland in collaboration with the Husavik Museum, which will significantly broadening the reach of the exhibition, modeling knowledge exchange between the two regions over the course of science research projects.

该奖项通过巴布达研究中心（纽约城市大学研究人员和西印度群岛巴布达主要社区利益攸关方的合作伙伴关系）支持创新的科学/社区伙伴关系，这将促进沉浸式科学研究机会的发展，促进在过去七年中在巴布达进行的积极实地研究的非正式教育。 在过去的四年里，PI一直参与北极社会科学计划支持的REU网站项目“变化的岛屿”，该项目探讨了北极人类生态动力系统与小岛屿发展中国家（SIDS）之间的遥相关性。 虽然巴布达社区距离北极很远，但Perdikaris通过从联合国的“许多强有力的声音”（MSV）项目中借用概念，使这些联系变得突出。 MSV是一个连接北极社区和小岛屿发展中国家社区的计划，因为他们面临着类似的社会和文化挑战，处于快速环境变化的前线。这个项目是在Barbudan社区的表达需要持续的科学教育机会，这发生在课堂之外，超出了现场季节的直接响应。 PI和她的研究团队开发了一种社区参与模式，最终为研究项目提供了永久的教育遗产，被设想为一个教育和博物馆空间，使用基于位置的学习技术向公众传达对科学的理解。 此外，PI和她的研究团队建议在巴布达创建一个展览，其中包括传统和当地知识，最终将与胡萨维克博物馆合作前往冰岛，这将大大扩大展览的范围，在科学研究项目的过程中模拟两个地区之间的知识交流。