Improving Polar Data Access and Communication

改善 Polar 数据访问和通信

• 批准号: 1525635
• 负责人: Oscar Schofield
• 金额: $ 92.99万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525635&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Polar; Data; Access; Communication

Improving Interdisciplinary Data Access and Communication: Through professional development and the creation of data tools, the PIs will reduce the logistical costs of bringing polar science to students and educators. The PIs propose to provide opportunities to build the capacity of polar scientists for communicating and engaging with diverse audiences. They will also create scalable, in-person and virtual opportunities for educators and students to engage with polar scientists and their research through data visualizations, data activities, educator workshops, webinars, and student research symposia. The desired product is a set of data rich instructional materials and customized professional development trainings that virtually expand access and opportunity to engage more educators and their classrooms in polar science. Over three years, the PIs will: 1) Conduct three communication and diversity workshops for a total of 60 polar scientists and provide opportunities for scientists to practice and apply the information presented; 2) Develop a social media/web program dedicated to promoting polar research and education and outreach programs; 3) Develop activities that engage students with real polar data and a set of adaptable data visualization tools that allow students to interact with these data; 5) Develop and implement 10 online educational webinars and 3 in-person half-day educator workshops; 6) Conduct 4 weeklong educator professional development workshops; 7) Run 4 symposia nationally for approximately 1200 students to present their polar research investigations to polar scientists; 8) Foster the use of real polar data in undergraduate teaching through the Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI) to increase students' data skills and knowledge of polar science; and 9) Create an asynchronous e-course that highlights polar science research and uses data in teaching for science educators.This effort will improve the communication capacity of the polar science community. It will help bring real-world datasets, models, and simulations into the classroom and make scientific data from the poles and information about polar research widely available and useful to various audiences. The project will engage under-represented and underserved students in polar scientific research and many of the materials created and connections between scientists and educators are likely to be sustainable. This effort supports NSF/PLR goals to diversify the research community and improve access to information on polar research.

改善跨学科数据访问和交流：通过专业发展和数据工具的创建，个人信息系统将降低将极地科学带给学生和教育工作者的后勤成本。PIS提议提供机会，建设极地科学家与不同受众交流和接触的能力。它们还将为教育工作者和学生创造可扩展的、面对面的和虚拟的机会，通过数据可视化、数据活动、教育工作者研讨会、网络研讨会和学生研究研讨会与极地科学家及其研究接触。想要的产品是一套数据丰富的教学材料和定制的专业发展培训，这些培训实际上扩大了接触极地科学的途径和机会，使更多的教育工作者和他们的课堂参与其中。在三年的时间里，PIS将：1)为总共60名极地科学家举办三次交流和多样性研讨会，并为科学家提供练习和应用所提供信息的机会；2)开发一个致力于促进极地研究和教育的社交媒体/网络计划和外联计划；3)开发活动，让学生参与真实的极地数据和一套允许学生与这些数据互动的适应性数据可视化工具；5)开发和实施10个在线教育网络研讨会和3个面对面的半天教育者研讨会；6)举办4个为期一周的教育者专业发展研讨会；7)在全国范围内为大约1200名学生举办4次研讨会，向极地科学家介绍他们的极地研究调查；8)通过社区大学本科生研究倡议(CCURI)在本科教学中促进使用真实的极地数据，以增加学生的数据技能和极地科学知识；9)创建一个强调极地科学研究并将数据用于科学教育工作者教学的异步电子课程。这将提高极地科学界的交流能力。它将有助于将真实世界的数据集、模型和模拟带入课堂，并使来自两极的科学数据和关于极地研究的信息广泛可用，并对各种受众有用。该项目将使未得到充分代表和服务的学生参与极地科学研究，创造的许多材料以及科学家和教育工作者之间的联系可能是可持续的。这一努力支持了NSF/PLR使研究界多样化和改善获取极地研究信息的机会的目标。