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 - 北新墨西哥学院服务的人口中 72% 是西班牙裔，18% 是美洲原住民。他们在埃斯帕诺拉谷不间断地分别居住了 400 多年和 1000 年。这是一个美丽、历史悠久、贫穷的地方。其贫瘠的矿床在 100 多年前就被开采殆尽，其高沙漠气候只能维持小型、主要自给自足的农场——这些农场由连续使用了数百年的公共 acequia 系统灌溉。参与管理一个如此勉强提供其果实的地方，显然是一种自豪感。该项目旨在通过让我们的本科生参与其环境的多个层面的详细绘图、这些层面的同化以及对这些层面内部和之间的自然和人为事件（火灾、洪水、虫害、迁移）的触觉模拟来扩大这种自豪感。这些事件的复杂性及其对生命和生计造成的损失促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，这种对技术的依赖迫使当地环境利益相关者将其代理权交给外部技术专家。该项目的目的是让本科生做好在社区中承担这一关键角色的准备。该项目的预期成果是，这种基于地点的参与所带来的自豪感的增强，将坚定地让本科生走上地球科学的道路。该项目的目标是为学生创建一个强调建模、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，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。该项目的协作规划经验的目标是（1）帮助非专家更好地理解复杂的人与自然的相互作用，并利用这些知识（2）参与更真正的协作和创造性的规划活动。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来之不易的技能对地球及其社区很重要。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。