EAGER: GeoMedia Institute

该项目旨在创建一个新的地球科学外展机构，该机构将制作有关地球科学研究的广播纪录片和视频，并向地球科学研究生和研究人员提供媒体制作的实践培训。 该项目旨在提高公众对多元化、充满活力的研究人员群体所做的地球科学研究的重要性和意义的认识，并通过向大学生和教师提供实践媒体培训来吸引和留住更多元化的年轻人进入地球科学领域，从而提高他们在这个日益以媒体为导向的世界中的公共传播技能。 该项目的 PI 是地球图像基金会的资深地球科学电影制片人 Doug Prose 和 Diane LaMacchia，他们制作了 18 部成功的纪录片，在 PBS 和国际上播出，以及许多以地球科学为背景的较短视频，以各大洲的地点为背景。 他们还指导了一些地球科学专业的学生媒体制作技术；其中一些学生已经在专业职位上运用了这些技能。 除了创建及时开发和制作专业广播纪录片和学生/研究人员制作的有关地球科学研究的视频的机制外，该项目还将为来自不同背景的学生提供独特的激励，以参与地球科学研究项目和野外营地/学校，并在现场接受 PI 的强化媒体培训。 学员不仅有机会为广播纪录片和自己的视频制作贡献内容，还将学习使用先进制作技术向公众传播科学的宝贵技能，这将提高他们在寻求新职位时的竞争力，并最终扩大地质学家的数量和多样性，他们能够熟练地记录重要且令人兴奋的地球科学研究活动，从而提高有关地球科学主题的准确、可信的媒体产品的质量和数量，从而提高公众对地球科学研究和知识的相关性、重要性和需求的认识。 关注参与该项目的学生和研究人员的性别、种族和经济背景的多样性，将为具有不同观点的参与者提供一种技能，使他们能够在自己的工作中更有效和创造性地应用和表达这些不同的观点，最终增加公众声音的数量和多样性，从而让更广泛、更多样化的受众了解权威、相关的地球科学信息。该试点项目通过开发一种有效的机制来生成有关地球科学研究的引人注目的广播纪录片和视频，并为不同群体的地球科学学生和研究人员提供媒体制作的实践培训，满足地球科学家在当今日益以媒体为导向的世界中与公众更有效沟通的需求。 地球图像基金会的 PI Doug Prose 和 Diane LaMacchia 是资深的地球科学电影制作人，他们为 PBS 制作了 18 部成功的纪录片，以七大洲为背景，还制作了许多较短的地球科学视频。 作为其教育使命的一部分，在最近的电影拍摄中，PI 已开始指导地球科学和其他学生的视频制作技术。 该 EAGER 的目标是： 1. 创建一种机制，有效记录不同研究人员群体正在进行的相关新的和正在进行的研究活动； 2. 及时制作专业广播纪录片和学生/研究人员制作的有关地球科学研究的视频； 3. 为来自不同背景的学生参与地球科学研究项目和野外营地/学校提供独特的激励； 4. 提供独特的机会，扩大学生和研究人员作为地球科学家的技能，包括使用视频制作技术向公众传播科学； 5. 扩大地球科学研究人员的数量和多样性，他们能够熟练地记录重要且令人兴奋的地球科学研究活动，并为公众制作高质量的视频。 该项目的一项广泛影响是提高有关地球科学主题的准确、可信的媒体产品的质量和数量，使广大公众能够接触到这些产品，并提高公众对地球科学研究和知识的相关性、重要性和需求的认识。 该项目还旨在让年轻学生有兴趣获得为公众观众制作高质量视频的能力，以便他们最终接受与公众分享他们独特的地球科学概念知识的想法，作为他们作为专业地球科学家职业生涯的一部分。 关注参与该项目的学生和研究人员的性别、种族和经济背景的多样性，将为具有不同观点的参与者提供一种技能，使他们能够在自己的工作中更有效地、创造性地应用和表达这些不同的观点，最终增加公众声音的数量和多样性，从而使更广泛、更多样化的受众获得权威的、相关的地球科学信息。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知识进行评估来支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

This project seeks to create a new geoscience outreach institute that will generate broadcast documentaries and videos about geoscience research and provide hands-on training in media production to geoscience students and researchers. This project addresses the need to increase public awareness about the importance and significance of geoscience research done by a diverse, dynamic group of researchers, and also addresses the need to attract and retain a more diverse population of young people to the geoscience fields by offering hands-on media training to college students and faculty that will increase their skills in public communication in this increasingly media-oriented world. The PIs for this project are veteran earth science filmmakers Doug Prose and Diane LaMacchia of Earth Images Foundation, who have produced eighteen successful documentaries for broadcast on PBS and internationally, and many shorter geoscience focused videos, set in locations on every continent. They have also mentored a number of geoscience students in media production techniques; some of these students have gone on to utilize these skills in professional positions. In addition to creating a mechanism for developing and producing in a timely fashion both professional broadcast documentaries and student/researcher-produced videos about geoscience research this project will also provide a unique incentive to students from diverse backgrounds to participate in geoscience research projects and field camps/schools, and while in the field receive intensive media training from the PIs. The trainees will not only have the opportunity to contribute content to a broadcast documentary and their own video production, they will learn a valuable skill in communicating science to the public using advanced production techniques, which will increase their competitiveness as they seek new positions, and ultimately broaden the number and diversity of geologists who can skillfully document important and exciting geoscience research activities and thereby increase the quality and quantity of accurate, credible media products about geoscience topics that raise public awareness of the relevance, importance, and need for geoscience research and knowledge. Focusing on diversity of gender, ethnicity, and economic background among the students and researchers participating in this project will have the impact of providing participants of differing perspectives with a skill that will permit them to more effectively and creatively apply and express those diverse perspectives in their own work, ultimately increasing the number and diversity of voices that reach the public with the impact of engaging a broader, more diverse audience with authoritative, relevant geoscience information. This pilot project addresses the need for earth scientists to communicate more effectively with the public in today's increasingly media-oriented world by developing an efficient mechanism for generating compelling broadcast documentaries and videos about geoscience research and by providing hands-on training in media production to a diverse group of earth science students and researchers. PIs Doug Prose and Diane LaMacchia of Earth Images Foundation are veteran earth science filmmakers who have produced eighteen successful documentaries for PBS broadcast, set in locations on all seven continents, as well as many shorter geoscience videos. As part of their educational mission, on recent film shoots the PIs have begun mentoring geoscience and other students in video production techniques. The goals of this EAGER are to: 1. Create a mechanism for efficiently documenting relevant new and ongoing research activities being carried out by a diverse group of researchers; 2. Produce in a timely fashion both professional broadcast documentaries and student/researcher-produced videos about geoscience research; 3. Provide a unique incentive to students from diverse backgrounds to participate in geoscience research projects and field camps/schools; 4. Offer a unique opportunity to widen students' and researchers' skill sets as geoscientists to include communicating science to the public using video production techniques; 5. Broaden the number and diversity of geoscience who can skillfully document important and exciting geoscience research activities and produce high-quality videos for the public. One broad impact of this project is to increase the quality and quantity of accurate, credible media products about geoscience topics that reach the public at large and raise public awareness of the relevance, importance, and need for geoscience research and knowledge. This project is also designed to get young students interested in acquiring the capability to produce high quality videos for public audiences, so that they ultimately embrace the idea of sharing their unique knowledge of geoscience concepts with the public as a component of their careers as professional geoscientists. Focusing on diversity of gender, ethnicity, and economic background among the students and researchers participating in this project will have the impact of providing participants with differing perspectives with a skill that will permit them to more effectively and creatively apply and express those diverse perspectives in their own work, ultimately increasing the number and diversity of voices that reach the public with the impact of engaging a broader, more diverse audience with authoritative, relevant geoscience information.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.