NSF INCLUDES: Collaborative Proposal: Coastal Almanac

服务不足和代表性不足的社区参与STEM的一个常见障碍是与主流科学脱节的感觉。该项目将让公民科学家参与当地数据的收集、测绘和解释，以期增加STEM对代表性不足社区的参与。这背后的理念是，科学需要从国内开始，既要容易获得，又要包容。为了促进这一更多的参与，该项目将建立一个对沿海环境科学感兴趣的利益攸关方网络。利益攸关方将包括沿海社区成员、学术和机构科学家以及公民科学团体，他们将集体和协作地创建一个基于网络的系统，以收集和查看收集和分析的环境信息。更广泛的影响包括消除对那些居住在沿海环境但在STEM教育、职业和政策制定中代表性不足的人的STEM障碍。这些社区包括部落社区(种族和民族融合)、渔业社区(包括实践社区)和没有直接进入学院或大学的农村社区。该项目将创造一个有形的、社会的和虚拟的环境，在这个环境中，所有参与者都有平等的地位参与到“做科学”的过程中--沿海年鉴。《年鉴》既是个人和组织的网络，也是通过该网络收集的沿海数据的网上储存库。在测试阶段，研究人员将通过在不断增长的沿海年鉴网络中通过多种互动途径来实施“交战规则”：增加严格的公民科学，发展专门的社区和科学家合作伙伴关系来收集和/或使用年鉴数据，开发K-12项目来收集和/或使用年鉴数据。这项拟议的工作将显著扩大西海岸的公民科学和基于社区的科学项目，通过针对接触主流科学的机会有限的沿海社区成员，包括来自非STEM职业的参与者和美洲原住民，扩大参与范围。《沿海年鉴》的创新之处在于允许深化科学参与的过程，并通过这一过程增加社区成员成为科学团队真正成员的机构，以社区成员和情况所决定的方式有机地发展，而不是由项目团队和主流科学先验地发展。从长远来看，该项目有可能增加沿海环境中代表性不足的群体在海洋科学教育、劳动力和政策制定方面的参与。项目公民科学家的贡献也将为主流科学和资源管理工作提供有价值的数据。

One common barrier to STEM engagement by underserved and underrepresented communities is a feeling of disconnection from mainstream science. This project will involve citizen scientist in the collection, mapping, and interpretation of data from their local area with an eye to increasing STEM engagement in underrepresented communities. The idea behind this is that science needs to start at home, and be both accessible and inclusive. To facilitate this increased participation, the project will develop a network of stakeholders with interests in the science of coastal environments. Stakeholders will include members of coastal communities, academic and agency scientists, and citizen science groups, who will collectively and collaboratively create a web-based system to collect and view the collected and analyzed environmental information. Broader impacts include addressing the STEM barriers to those who reside in the coastal environment but who are underrepresented in STEM education, vocations and policy-making. These include tribal communities (racial and ethnic inclusion), fishery communities (inclusion of communities of practice), and rural communities without direct access to colleges or universities.This project will create a physical, a social, and a virtual, environment where all participants have an equal footing in the processes of "doing science" - the Coastal Almanac. The Almanac is simultaneously a network of individuals and organizations, and a web-based repository of coastal data collected through the auspices of the network. During the testing phase, the researchers will implement the "rules of engagement" through multiple interaction pathways in the growing Coastal Almanac network: increases in rigorous citizen science, development of specific community-scientist partnerships to collect and/or use Almanac data, development of K-12 programs to collect and/or use Almanac data. The proposed work will significantly scale up citizen science and community-based science programs on the West Coast, broadening participation by targeting members of coastal communities with limited access to mainstream science, including participants from non-STEM vocations, and Native Americans. The innovation of the Coastal Almanac is in allowing the process of deepening involvement in science, and through that process increasing agency of community members to be bona fide members of the science team, to evolve organically, in the manner dictated by community members and the situation, rather than a priori by the project team and mainstream science. The project has the potential in the long-term to increase participation in marine science education, workforce, and policy-making by underrepresented groups resident in the coastal environment. Contributions by project citizen scientists will also provide valuable data to mainstream science and to resource management efforts.