Collaborative Research: Catalyzing Early Career Partnerships to Promote Discipline-Based Education Research in the Geosciences

该奖项将支持为40名参与者举办的为期两天的研讨会，以促进地球、大气、海洋和极地科学领域的早期职业学科研究人员与地球科学领域基于学科的教育研究人员(DBER)之间的关系。这些关系之所以至关重要，有两个原因：(1)解决关于人们如何学习地球科学内容并发展成为专家地球科学家所需的基础研究；(2)促进职业生涯早期的地球科学家加强其研究的更广泛影响。研讨会将在现有文献的基础上，促进早期职业研究人员之间的互利研究合作。该讲习班将促进地球科学研究人员和DBER之间的联网，以拓宽视野，发展联系，并为地球科学界培养未来的领导者社区。这次研讨会的参与者将建立专业关系，这些关系可能会为整个社区的研究和教育实践提供信息。此外，预计通过这些互动，这两个群体的教学实践将得到更好的信息，未来地球科学家的培训将从研究结果中获得更好的信息。研讨会将于2014年8月在华盛顿特区举行。

This award will support a 2-day workshop for 40 participants to catalyze relationships between early career disciplinary researchers in the earth, atmospheric, ocean, and polar sciences and discipline-based education researchers (DBERs) in the geosciences. These relationships are critical for two reasons: (1) to address the foundational research needed on how people learn geoscience content and develop into expert geoscientists and (2) to facilitate early career geoscientists in enhancing the broader impacts of their research. The workshop will be convened to grow mutually beneficial research collaborations amongst early career investigators that will build upon the extant literature. This workshop will promote networking amongst geoscience investigators and DBERs to broaden perspectives, develop connections, and nurture a community of future leaders for the geoscience community. The participants at this workshop will establish professional relationships that are likely to inform research and educational practices for the community at large. Moreover, it is expected that through these interactions the teaching practices of both groups would be better informed and training of future geoscientists will be well informed by research results. The workshop will take place in the Washington DC area in August 2014.