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相关者的合作伙伴关系）支持创新的科学/社区伙伴关系，这将有助于为过去七年在巴布达进行的积极实地研究的非正式教育提供沉浸式科学研究机会。 在过去的四年里，PI 一直致力于北极社会科学计划支持的 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 (SIDS) 之间的遥相关。 尽管巴布达社区距离北极数英里很远，但佩尔迪卡里斯借用了联合国项目“许多强声”（MSV）的概念，使这些联系变得突出。 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计划，因为它们处于环境快速变化的前线，面临着类似的社会和文化挑战。该项目直接响应了巴布达社区对持续科学教育机会的明确需求，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型，最终为研究项目带来永久的教育遗产，设想为一个教育和博物馆空间，将使用基于位置的学习技术向公众传达对科学的理解。 此外，首席研究员和她的研究团队建议在巴布达举办一个展览，融合传统和当地知识，最终将与胡萨维克博物馆合作前往冰岛，这将显着扩大展览的范围，在科学研究项目过程中模拟两个地区之间的知识交流。