RCN-UBE: Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education - Data Initiative (BLUE Data Network)

RCN-UBE：本科教育中的生物多样性素养 - 数据倡议（蓝色数据网络）

• 批准号: 1730526
• 负责人: Anna Monfils
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: Central Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1730526&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Biodiversity; Literacy; Undergraduate

Rapid advances in data research and technology are transforming science methodologies. The volume and variety of data being generated, the increased accessibility of data for aggregation, the improved discoverability of data, and the increasingly collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of scientific research are driving the need for new skill sets to address scientific issues of critical national and global importance. The biodiversity sciences have experienced a rapid mobilization of data that has increased capacity to investigate large-scale issues of critical importance in the 21st century (e.g., climate change and its impacts, zoonotic disease transmission, sustainable resource management, impacts of invasive species, and biodiversity loss). The volume, complexity, and variability in biodiversity data requires sophisticated data skills to ensure accurate and reproducible science. The RCN-UBE Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education - Data Initiative (BLUE Data) will bring together communities of biodiversity, data, and education specialists to identify core biodiversity data competencies for undergraduates, develop strategies for integrating these competencies into the introductory biology curriculum, and build capacity for sustained development and implementation of biodiversity and data literacy education. The BLUE Data Network has four goals: 1) Cultivate a diverse and inclusive network of biodiversity researchers, data scientists, and biology educators focused on undergraduate data-centric biodiversity education, 2) Build community consensus on core biodiversity data literacy competencies, 3) Develop strategies and exemplar materials to guide the integration of biodiversity data literacy competencies into introductory undergraduate biology curricula, and 4) Extend the network to engage a broader community of undergraduate educators in biodiversity data literacy efforts. Beginning with targeted community assessment (e.g., focus groups, surveys, needs assessment), and followed by dedicated workshops and symposia, thematic working groups, sessions at society conferences, and online virtual networking, BLUE Data brings together an interdisciplinary community to translate emerging tools and resources for biodiversity data access and analysis to the core undergraduate biology curriculum. BLUE Data will work as a community to develop competencies, materials, and strategies to infuse biodiversity data into the curriculum and facilitate broad-scale adoption of transferrable data literacy competencies that can improve undergraduate biology training to meet increasing workforce demands in both data and biodiversity sciences. A more data literate workforce will result in a broader data-enabled community of researchers, educators and engineers prepared to address emerging issues, ask data-intensive questions, and promote data driven innovation. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO), Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/). This project is also co-funded by the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) in the BIO directorate.

数据研究和技术的快速发展正在改变科学方法。产生的数据的数量和种类、更多的数据可供汇总、数据的可发现性提高以及科学研究的协作性和跨学科性质日益增强，正在推动对新技能的需求，以解决对国家和全球具有重大意义的科学问题。生物多样性科学经历了数据的快速动员，提高了调查21世纪至关重要的大规模问题(例如气候变化及其影响、人畜共患疾病传播、可持续资源管理、入侵物种的影响和生物多样性丧失)的能力。生物多样性数据的数量、复杂性和可变性要求复杂的数据技能，以确保科学的准确性和可重复性。RCN-UBE生物多样性本科教育-数据倡议(BLUDATA)将把生物多样性、数据和教育专家聚集在一起，确定本科生的核心生物多样性数据能力，制定将这些能力整合到生物学入门课程中的战略，并建设持续发展和实施生物多样性和数据扫盲教育的能力。蓝色数据网络有四个目标：1)培养一个多样化和包容性的网络，由生物多样性研究人员、数据科学家和生物教育工作者组成，侧重于以数据为中心的本科生生物多样性教育；2)就核心生物多样性数据素养能力建立社区共识；3)制定战略和示范材料，指导将生物多样性数据素养能力纳入本科生物学入门课程；以及4)扩大网络，让更多的本科教育工作者参与生物多样性数据素养工作。蓝色数据从有针对性的社区评估(例如，焦点小组、调查、需求评估)开始，然后是专门的研讨会和研讨会、专题工作组、社会会议和在线虚拟网络，蓝色数据将一个跨学科社区聚集在一起，将生物多样性数据获取和分析的新兴工具和资源转化为核心本科生物学课程。Blue Data将作为一个社区共同开发能力、材料和战略，将生物多样性数据注入课程，并促进可转移数据素养能力的广泛采用，以改善本科生物学培训，以满足数据和生物多样性科学日益增长的劳动力需求。更懂数据的员工队伍将带来更广泛的数据支持社区，包括研究人员、教育工作者和工程师，他们准备解决新出现的问题，提出数据密集型问题，并推动数据驱动的创新。该项目由生物科学局(BIO)生物基础设施部和教育与人力资源局(EHR)本科教育司联合资助，作为他们应对本科生物学教育愿景与变革：行动呼吁(http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/).)提出的挑战的一部分该项目还由生物信息学委员会的环境生物学司(DEB)共同资助。

项目成果

Life history and ecology of the endangered Poweshiek skipperling Oarisma poweshiek in Michigan prairie fens

密歇根草原沼泽濒临灭绝的 Poweshiek 船长 Oarisma poweshiek 的生活史和生态

• DOI: 10.1007/s10841-019-00158-6
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Journal of Insect Conservation
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: Belitz, Michael W.;Monfils, Michael J.;Cuthrell, David L.;Monfils, Anna K.
• 通讯作者: Monfils, Anna K.

Workforce Capacity Development and the Digital Extended Specimen

劳动力能力发展和数字扩展样本

• DOI: 10.3897/biss.5.73927
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
• 作者: Monfils, Anna;Ellwood, Elizabeth R.
• 通讯作者: Ellwood, Elizabeth R.

Highlights and Outcomes of the 2021 Global Community Consultation

2021年全球社区磋商的亮点和成果

• DOI: 10.3897/biss.5.72716
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
• 作者: Ellwood, Elizabeth R.;Bentley, Andrew;Buschbom, Jutta;Hardisty, Alex;Mast, Austin;Miller, Joe;Monfils, Anna;Nelson, Gil;Paul, Deborah L
• 通讯作者: Paul, Deborah L

The Extended Specimen Network: A Strategy to Enhance US Biodiversity Collections, Promote Research and Education

• DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz140
• 发表时间: 2020-01-01
• 期刊: BIOSCIENCE
• 影响因子: 10.1
• 作者: Lendemer, James;Thiers, Barbara;Aime, M. Catherine
• 通讯作者: Aime, M. Catherine

Landscape‐level environmental stressors contributing to the decline of Poweshiek skipperling ( Oarisma poweshiek )

景观层面的环境压力因素导致了鲍威希克船长 (Oarisma poweshiek) 的减少

• DOI: 10.1111/icad.12399
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Insect Conservation and Diversity
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Belitz, Michael W.;Monfils, Michael J.;Cuthrell, David L.;Monfils, Anna K.
• 通讯作者: Monfils, Anna K.