Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) National Communications Office (LNCO)

长期生态研究 (LTER) 国家通讯办公室 (LNCO)

• 批准号: 1545288
• 负责人: Frank Davis
• 金额: $ 351.42万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1545288&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Long; Term; Ecological; Research; LTER

The needs for science communication to diverse stakeholders are changing rapidly in an era of dramatic global change, shifting human demographic trends, and the widespread digital nature of communication and networking. This award supports a new and nimble Communications Office that will bring, to the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network, innovative capabilities to interact, share information, synthesize data, and collaborate in all areas of research, communication, and education both within and outside of the network. New programs and activities will encourage and promote diversity in education and training to enhance communication and outreach to the public; to local, regional, and federal agencies; and to non-governmental and non-profit agencies. The support services provided to the scientific community and to society will take full advantage of recent technological innovations that are informed by emerging socio-cultural insights to develop new strategies for effective communication and for enabling more creative collaborative research.Project goals for communication and outreach are to cultivate relationships and synthetic team science within the LTER community, broaden engagements between the LTER community and other researchers and stakeholders outside the network, and disseminate LTER scientific discoveries and policy- and management-relevant knowledge to targeted audiences. The Communications Office will develop an effective and engaging web presence featuring online research fora, multi-media research highlights, and access to tools and services that build awareness and participation in the LTER Network. Partnerships with the Strategic Environmental Communications and Media Program at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and with a new, state-of-the-art facility in environmental communications and media (Outreach, Communication, and Training for Ocean Science) will leverage sophisticated science communication and education resources. The Office will identify and deploy resources to maximize opportunities for synthesis across the LTER network. Synthesis working groups and distributed graduate seminars will be supported, with topics identified by the LTER and other research communities. Additional networking will be supported through the triennial All Scientists' Meeting, annual meetings held in conjunction with other professional meetings, and promotion and enabling of virtual LTER network interactions and team science. The Communications Office will support LTER education and training using a combination of in-person and virtual training in science communication and environmental media, training in facilitating collaboration skills, and graduate/early-career training in open synthesis science. Through support and coordination of the LTER Education Committee, the Communications Office will serve as an information hub on topics such as best practices, evaluation metrics and tools for student tracking. It will help identify and cultivate new partners for LTER education and training efforts, and will encourage and promote diversity through collaboration with multiple societies and organizations that promote participation by under-served groups. All activities will be evaluated using contemporary formative and summative assessments, facilitating an adaptive approach to advancing communication, synthesis, and education across the LTER network.

在一个全球急剧变化、人类人口趋势不断变化、通信和网络具有广泛的数字性质的时代，对不同利益攸关方的科学传播的需求正在迅速变化。该奖项支持一个新的、灵活的通信办公室，它将为长期生态研究(LTER)网络带来在网络内外的所有研究、通信和教育领域进行交互、共享信息、合成数据和合作的创新能力。新的方案和活动将鼓励和促进教育和培训的多样性，以加强与公众、地方、地区和联邦机构以及非政府和非营利机构的沟通和联系。向科学界和社会提供的支助服务将充分利用最近的技术创新，这些创新受到新的社会文化洞察力的启发，以制定有效沟通和促进更具创造性的合作研究的新战略。交流和外联项目的目标是在长期热核实验区社区内培养关系和综合团队科学，扩大长期热核实验区社区与网络外其他研究人员和利益攸关方之间的接触，并向目标受众传播长期热能实验区科学发现和与政策和管理相关的知识。通信办公室将建立一个有效和有吸引力的网络存在，包括在线研究论坛、多媒体研究集锦以及获取工具和服务，以提高对长期热电研究网络的认识和参与。与布伦环境科学与管理学院的战略环境传播和媒体项目，以及与一个新的、最先进的环境传播和媒体设施(海洋科学的外联、传播和培训)建立的伙伴关系，将利用先进的科学传播和教育资源。办事处将确定和部署资源，以最大限度地扩大整个长期热核研究网络的综合机会。综合工作组和分布的研究生研讨会将得到支持，LTER和其他研究界确定的主题将得到支持。将通过三年一度的全体科学家会议、与其他专业会议同时举行的年度会议以及促进和促进LTER虚拟网络互动和团队科学来支持更多的联网。传播办公室将结合科学传播和环境媒体的面对面培训和虚拟培训、促进协作技能的培训以及开放式综合科学的毕业生/职业早期培训，支持长期热核实验班的教育和培训。通过长期教育评估教育委员会的支持和协调，传播办公室将成为最佳做法、评价指标和学生跟踪工具等主题的信息中心。它将帮助为长期教育和培训努力寻找和培养新的合作伙伴，并将通过与促进服务不足群体参与的多个社会和组织的合作，鼓励和促进多样性。将使用当代形成性和终结性评估对所有活动进行评估，促进采用适应性方法促进整个长期教育研究网络的交流、综合和教育。