RII Track-4: Integrative Multimodal Strategies for Advancing Ecosystem Monitoring and Science Communication

RII Track-4：促进生态系统监测和科学传播的综合多模式策略

• 批准号: 1833020
• 负责人: Mary Harner
• 金额: $ 23.09万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska at Kearney
• 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: 2018-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833020&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RII; Track; Integrative; Multimodal; Strategies

Nontechnical DescriptionRivers provide water that is essential for supporting human life and biodiversity. People are searching for ways to manage rivers to meet societal and ecosystem needs as human populations and demands for freshwater increase globally. Communication among diverse stakeholders is necessary for achieving solutions for how to simultaneously utilize and protect freshwater resources. This project aims to further communication of river science and to identify and share perspectives about river ecosystems with a variety of public audiences, ultimately improving understanding of these complex systems and access to knowledge as people decide the future of rivers. Fellowship activities will be conducted in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, where the PI and a trainee-level researcher will investigate historic and present influences on water-use decisions and develop approaches for combining digital technologies, like time-lapse camera systems and sound recorders, with creative ways of sharing information about connections within and across river systems. By becoming better communicators, project participants will be prepared to model these techniques for public audiences and students, as well as to broadly improve public understanding of river-floodplain systems and the various forms of life they support.Technical DescriptionRivers are interconnected, complex systems that sustain aquatic and terrestrial life, including humans. They are also at the forefront of ecological, economic, and social controversies as human populations increase and freshwater resources remain finite. Interdisciplinary approaches that bridge research, technology, and public literacy of river science offer potential to provide information to stakeholders so that they will be better equipped to address challenges about meeting societal and ecosystem needs for water resources during a time of rapid ecological change. The goal for this fellowship is to develop content, methodologies, and strategies to communicate science to public audiences, drawing upon multimodal digital technologies to obtain, analyze, and convey complex ecological data in a variety of forms. The work will be conducted in partnership with the University of New Mexico and will include learning techniques for reaching public audiences; characterizing drivers of change across river basins; and creating content to support science communication, featuring dynamics of ecosystem change on regulated and freely flowing rivers, as well as historic and present dimensions of water-use decisions. Fellowship activities will guide development of novel integrative digital media strategies for communication that can be shared and evaluated across diverse audiences to understand how people respond to and learn from various forms of multimodal content. Outcomes will help to establish a framework for understanding and conveying complex river science; increase public scientific literacy about ecosystem connections in river-floodplain systems; and provide people with a deeper connection to rivers and the coupled human-environmental systems they sustain.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.

非技术描述河流提供对维持人类生命和生物多样性至关重要的水。随着全球人口和淡水需求的增加，人们正在寻找管理河流的方法，以满足社会和生态系统的需求。不同利益攸关方之间的沟通对于解决如何同时利用和保护淡水资源是必要的。该项目旨在进一步传播河流科学，确定并与各种公众受众分享关于河流生态系统的观点，最终增进对这些复杂系统的了解，并在人们决定河流的未来时获得知识。研究金活动将与新墨西哥大学合作进行，在那里，国际和平协会和一名见习研究员将调查对用水决策的历史和现实影响，并开发方法，将延时摄像系统和录音机等数字技术与分享有关河流系统内部和跨河流连接的信息的创造性方式相结合。通过成为更好的沟通者，项目参与者将准备为公众观众和学生建立这些技术的模型，并广泛地提高公众对河流-泛滥平原系统及其支持的各种生命形式的理解。随着人口的增加和淡水资源的有限，它们也处于生态、经济和社会争议的前沿。将研究、技术和公众的河流科学素养联系起来的跨学科方法提供了向利益攸关方提供信息的潜力，使他们能够更好地应对在快速生态变化时期满足社会和生态系统对水资源的需求方面的挑战。该奖学金的目标是开发向公众传播科学的内容、方法和战略，利用多模式数字技术以各种形式获取、分析和传达复杂的生态数据。这项工作将与新墨西哥大学合作进行，将包括学习接触公众的技术；描述各流域变化的驱动因素；创建支持科学交流的内容，介绍受管制和自由流动的河流上生态系统变化的动态，以及用水决定的历史和现在层面。研究金活动将指导制定新颖的综合数字媒体传播战略，这些战略可供不同受众分享和评估，以了解人们如何回应和学习各种形式的多模式内容。成果将有助于建立一个理解和传达复杂河流科学的框架；提高公众对河流-泛滥平原系统中生态系统联系的科学素养；并为人们提供与河流及其所维持的人与环境耦合系统的更深层次的联系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。