Collaborative Proposal: GP-IMPACT: Ambassadors for STEM Training to Enhance Participation (A-STEP)

合作提案：GP-IMPACT：STEM 培训大使以提高参与度 (A-STEP)

• 批准号: 1801418
• 负责人: Rodolfo Dirzo
• 金额: $ 3.68万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1801418&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; GP; IMPACT; Ambassadors

Geoscientists work on the front lines of issues affecting human communities worldwide, requiring an educated public positioned to help decision-makers understand Earth's complex workings and ensure the safety of its billions of inhabitants. Expanding diversity and inclusivity in the geosciences is critical as decision-making informed by geosciences is a matter of both social justice and critical national need. Recent research on social vulnerability, particularly the vulnerability of communities to extreme natural events based on social factors such as income, race, ethnicity, and housing, finds that communities of color are often among those most vulnerable to these natural events. To address this challenge head-on, the Ambassadors for STEM Training to Enhance Participation (A-STEP) program will provide a transformative seagoing experience to cohorts of students from underrepresented communities who will be equipped with both solid science background and science communication skills. This experience will broaden perspectives on the role of the oceans as a driver of global and environmental change and is expected to empower ambassadors to communicate that change within their own diverse communities. The project will leverage transits of U.S.-operated marine research vessels to train diverse STEM and non-STEM students in science communication. Under the guidance of instructors and science mentors, these students will become effective ambassadors to disseminate exciting and relevant geoscience information across broad audiences. The goals of the A-STEP project are to: (1) Raise the profile of geosciences and geoscience-related careers among under-represented groups nationwide; (2) Produce a series of engaging multimedia products to contribute towards this goal; (3) Draw from scientific ocean drilling and related research to develop educational storyboard modules aimed at K-12 audiences showing the impacts of global change on marine and terrestrial systems; and (4) Contribute to increased diversity of knowledge across geoscience-related fields and career choices by drawing greater attention to the relevance of climate and environmental change for all citizens.To achieve these goals, cohorts of 16 students annually from talented pools of STEM and non-STEM majors will join scientists and science education/communication professionals on short transit cruises on the JOIDES Resolution and UNOLS vessels. Students will learn first-hand in the scientifically-rich environment of an oceanographic cruise the significance of data gleaned from marine sediments, marine organisms, marine pollution, water chemistry, weather and climate patterns, and seafloor dynamics. Subsequently, these newly-minted ambassadors will be deployed across their communities and the nation to transmit the importance and relevance of geoscience information and careers, create innovative products and presentations about their experiences, and make linkages between climate and environmental change and people's daily lives. A-STEP cohorts will become a rich nationwide resource for inspiring the next generation of geoscientists. As ambassadors tasked with promoting STEM knowledge and careers, program participants will bring meaning and value to information, demonstrating how climate and environmental change is affecting all citizens, urban and rural. Citizens with few direct connections to science and scientists, who unfortunately are disproportionately African American, Latino, and Native American communities, are often more vulnerable to misinformation and will especially benefit from interactions with A-STEP students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

地球科学家在影响全球人类社区的问题的第一线工作，需要受过教育的公众帮助决策者了解地球的复杂运作，并确保其数十亿居民的安全。扩大地球科学的多样性和包容性至关重要，因为根据地球科学进行决策既是社会正义的问题，也是国家的迫切需要。最近关于社会脆弱性的研究，特别是基于收入，种族，民族和住房等社会因素的社区对极端自然事件的脆弱性，发现有色人种社区往往是最容易受到这些自然事件的影响。为了正面应对这一挑战，STEM培训大使以提高参与度（A-STEP）计划将为来自代表性不足社区的学生提供变革性的航海体验，这些学生将配备坚实的科学背景和科学沟通技能。这一经历将拓宽人们对海洋作为全球和环境变化驱动力的作用的看法，并有望使大使们能够在其各自不同的社区内宣传这一变化。该项目将利用美国的过境-运营海洋研究船，培训不同的STEM和非STEM学生进行科学传播。在导师和科学导师的指导下，这些学生将成为有效的大使，在广泛的受众中传播令人兴奋的和相关的地球科学信息。 A-STEP项目的目标是：（1）在全国代表性不足的群体中提高地球科学和地球科学相关职业的形象;（2）制作一系列吸引人的多媒体产品，为实现这一目标做出贡献;（3）借鉴科学海洋钻探和相关研究，开发针对知识产权的教育故事板模块，12名观众展示全球变化对海洋和陆地系统的影响;（4）促进地球科学知识的多样性-为实现这些目标，每年，来自STEM和非STEM专业人才库的16名学生将与科学家和科学教育/传播专业人员一起参加JOIDES Resolution和UNOLS船只的短途过境巡航。学生将在海洋学巡航的科学丰富的环境中第一手学习从海洋沉积物，海洋生物，海洋污染，水化学，天气和气候模式以及海底动力学收集的数据的重要性。随后，这些新上任的大使将被部署到他们的社区和国家，传播地球科学信息和职业的重要性和相关性，创造创新产品和介绍他们的经验，并将气候和环境变化与人们的日常生活联系起来。A-STEP队列将成为激励下一代地球科学家的丰富的全国性资源。作为负责促进STEM知识和职业的大使，计划参与者将为信息带来意义和价值，展示气候和环境变化如何影响所有公民，城市和农村。与科学和科学家几乎没有直接联系的公民，不幸的是，他们是不成比例的非裔美国人，拉丁美洲人和美洲原住民社区，往往更容易受到错误信息的影响，特别是从与A-STEP学生的互动中受益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。