Disseminating Human-ecodynamics Research

该奖项通过巴布达研究中心（纽约城市大学的研究人员和西印度群岛巴布达的主要社区利益攸关方的合作伙伴关系）支持一项创新的科学/社区伙伴关系，这将促进开发沉浸式科学研究机会，对过去七年在巴布达进行的积极实地研究进行非正式教育。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”，该项目探索北极人类生态动力系统与小岛屿发展中国家（SIDS）之间的远程联系。尽管巴布达社区距离北极很远，但Perdikaris从概念上借鉴了联合国的“许多强烈的声音”（MSV）计划，突出了这些联系。MSV是一个将北极社区和小岛屿发展中国家社区联系起来的项目，因为它们面临着类似的社会和文化挑战，都处于快速环境变化的前沿。这个项目直接响应了巴布达社区所表达的对持续的科学教育机会的需求，这些机会发生在课堂之外和野外季节之外。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永久的教育遗产，设想为一个教育和博物馆空间，将使用基于地点的学习技术向公众传播对科学的理解。此外，PI和她的研究小组建议在巴布达举办一个展览，将传统和当地知识结合起来，最终将与Husavik博物馆合作前往冰岛，这将大大扩大展览的范围，模拟两个地区在科学研究项目过程中的知识交流。

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.