GP-EXTRA: Place-Based Participatory Path to Geoscience

GP-EXTRA：基于地点的地球科学参与路径

• 批准号: 1911607
• 负责人: Steven Cox
• 金额: $ 28.48万
• 依托单位: Northern New Mexico College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1911607&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; EXTRA; Place; Based; Participatory

Part 1 - Northern New Mexico College serves a population that is 72% Hispanic and 18% Native American. They have resided, uninterrupted, in the Espanola Valley for over 400 and 1000 years respectively. It is a place of great beauty, history and poverty. Its meager mineral beds were tapped out over 100 years ago and its high desert climate supports only small, largely subsistence, farms - irrigated by a communal acequia system that has been in continuous use for hundreds of years. There is evident pride in participating in the stewardship of a place that offers its fruits so grudgingly. The project intends to expand on this pride by engaging our undergraduates in the detailed mapping of the many layers of their environment, in the assimilation of these layers, and in the tactile simulation of natural and human-caused events (fire, flood, infestation, migration) within and across these layers. The complexity of these events and their cost in lives and livelihoods have lead many communities to invest in relevant technology. Given the low level of scientific and computational literacy in rural America this reliance on technology forces local environmental stakeholders to forfeit their agency to an outside technical expert. The intent of the project is to prepare undergraduates to assume this crucial role in their community. An expected outcome of the project is the resulting increase in pride, stemming from such place-based participation, will firmly set undergraduates on a pathway into the Geosciences.The project's goals are focused on creating a platform for students that emphasizes modeling, learning and collaborative planning. The project seeks to equip undergraduates with systems thinking skills and have them serve as valued participants in environmental planning and flexible ambassadors of new technology en route to deeper learning in the Geosciences. The aims of the project's collaborative planning experience would (1) help non experts better understand complex human-natural interactions and to use that knowledge to (2) engage in more truly collaborative and creative planning activities. The former will give students the skills to pursue Geoscience while the latter will assure them that these hard won skills matter to the Earth and their community.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.

部分1 -北方新墨西哥州学院服务的人口是72%的西班牙裔和18%的美洲原住民。它们分别在埃斯帕诺拉山谷不间断地居住了400多年和1000多年。这是一个非常美丽，历史和贫穷的地方。其贫瘠的矿床在100多年前就被开采一空，其高沙漠气候只支持小规模的、主要是自给性的农场--由一个持续使用了数百年的公共水系统灌溉。参与管理一个如此不情愿地提供其果实的地方，显然是一种自豪。该项目旨在通过让我们的本科生参与他们环境的许多层的详细映射，这些层的同化以及自然和人为事件（火灾，洪水，虫害，迁移）的触觉模拟来扩展这种自豪感。这些事件的复杂性及其对生命和生计造成的代价促使许多社区投资于相关技术。鉴于美国农村的科学和计算素养水平较低，这种对技术的依赖迫使当地环境利益相关者放弃他们的代理权，转而求助于外部技术专家。该项目的目的是准备本科生承担在他们的社区这一关键作用。该项目的一个预期成果是，由于这种基于地点的参与而产生的自豪感的增加，将坚定地使本科生走上进入地球科学的道路。该项目的目标是为学生创造一个强调建模、学习和协作规划的平台。该项目旨在为本科生提供系统思维技能，并让他们成为环境规划的重要参与者和新技术的灵活大使，以深入学习地球科学。该项目的合作规划经验的目的是（1）帮助非专家更好地理解复杂的人类与自然的相互作用，并利用这些知识（2）从事更真正的合作和创造性的规划活动。前者将为学生提供从事地球科学的技能，而后者将向他们保证这些来之不易的技能对地球和他们的社区至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。