Disseminating Human-ecodynamics Research

该奖项通过巴布达研究综合体(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)支持创新的科学/社区伙伴关系，这将促进为非正规教育开发身临其境的科学研究机会，介绍过去七年在巴布达开展的积极实地研究。在过去四年中，国际和平研究所一直参与由北极社会科学计划资助的REU站点项目“变化之岛”，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(SID)之间的远程联系。虽然巴布达社区距离北极有很远的距离，但佩尔迪卡里斯借鉴了联合国的项目“许多强烈的声音”(MSV)，使这些联系变得突出起来。MSV是一个连接北极社区和小岛屿发展中国家社区的计划，因为它们处于快速环境变化的第一线，面临着类似的社会和文化挑战。该项目是对巴布达社区所表达的对持续科学教育机会的直接回应，这些机会发生在课堂之外和实地考察季节之后。PI和她的研究团队开发了一个社区参与的模式，最终形成了研究项目的永久教育遗产，设想为一个教育和博物馆空间，将使用基于位置的学习技术向公众传播对科学的理解。此外，国际和平研究所和她的研究小组提议在巴布达举办一场展览，汇集传统和当地知识，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.