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.

第1部分 - 新墨西哥州北部的人口为72％的西班牙裔和18％的美国原住民服务。他们在Espanola山谷中居住，不间断地居住了400多年和1000年。这是一个伟大的美丽，历史和贫穷的地方。它的微薄矿物床被100年前被挖掘出来，其高沙漠气候仅支撑着很小的，在很大程度上生存，农场 - 由一个连续使用的公共acequia系统灌溉了数百年。参与一个如此勉强提供果实的地方的管理感到自豪。该项目打算通过让我们的本科生参与其许多环境的详细映射，在这些层的同化以及在这些层内和整个这些层的触觉模拟内部和人类引起的事件（火灾，洪水，洪水，侵扰，迁移）中，以扩大这种自豪感。这些事件的复杂性及其在生活和生计中的成本使许多社区投资相关技术。鉴于美国农村地区的科学和计算素养水平较低，因此对技术的依赖迫使当地环境利益相关者将其代理商丧失给外部技术专家。该项目的目的是准备在社区中扮演这一至关重要的角色。该项目的预期结果是，骄傲的增加，这是由于这种基于地点的参与，将在通往地球科学的途径上牢固地将大学生牢固地设置为新的大学。该项目旨在使本科生配备系统思维技能，并让他们充当环境计划中的有价值的参与者，并在地球科学的深度学习中途中启发了新技术的灵活大使。该项目的协作计划经验的目的将（1）帮助非专家更好地了解复杂的人类自然互动，并利用这些知识来（2）进行更真正的协作和创造性的计划活动。前者将为学生提供追求地球科学的技能，而后者将向他们保证，这些硬赢的技能对地球及其社区都很重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准的评估来支持的。