Focusing the lens on field safety: a workshop for field trip leaders

将镜头聚焦于现场安全：为实地考察领导者举办的研讨会

• 批准号: 1941013
• 负责人: Emily Finzel
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 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 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1941013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Focusing; lens; field; safety; workshop

This award provides travel support for 25 field-camp leaders to be able to participate in Focusing the Lens on Field Safety: A Workshop for Field Trip Leaders that will take place at the University of Iowa from November 7-8, 2019. Field experiences are an important tool for training earth and environmental scientists, and most undergraduate programs require up to several weeks spent in the field to earn a degree. But field training is not without its risks, which are inherently different and have the potential to be more severe than classroom-based training. This workshop will help to guide field trip leaders towards a culture of improving field safety protocols by contributing to the development of a process that should ultimately become second nature and part of the normal preparations for field excursions. Part of the proposed workshop would be to develop materials for such a national repository. In addition, graduate students will be invited to join in the workshop and student participants will be given the opportunity to become ambassadors for field safety by being involved in the dissemination of information to other entities locally, statewide, and nationally. These opportunities will also allow graduate students to build their professional networks within and outside the academic community. It is widely recognized that field-based training is pedagogically essential for integrating knowledge in the earth and environmental sciences, and it is crucial for employment in the hydrocarbon and environmental industries. The National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) and ExxonMobil have been leading the way in improving field safety protocol. However, one of the components that is underdeveloped in the current standards are protocols for field-camp-like scenarios where students are spread out over a wide area day after day. The outcome from this workshop will be a set of standard operating procedures (SOP) that can be adapted to any dispersed group field activity, whether an educational field trip, research field trip, or field camp. These procedures will help instructors mitigate accidents through pre-activity preparation and training that will result in fewer accidents and time lost in the field. Ultimately, this will enhance and improve scientific education because instructors will be confident in their safety protocols and able to focus on student learning, students will be assured that protocols are in place to ensure their safety, and a decrease in the number of incidents will lead to less disruption during limited and expensive field time.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.

该奖项为25名现场训练营领导者提供了旅行支持，以便能够将镜头集中在现场安全上：一个现场旅行领导者的研讨会，该讲习班将于2019年11月7日至8日在爱荷华大学举行。现场体验是培训地球和环境科学家的重要工具，大多数本科生都需要在该学位上花费数周的学位。 但是，现场培训并非没有风险，这本质上是不同的，并且有可能比基于课堂的培训更严重。 该研讨会将有助于指导现场旅行的领导者，从而通过发展最终成为第二天性的过程的发展来改善现场安全方案的文化，并成为野外游览的正常准备的一部分。 拟议的研讨会的一部分是为这样的国家存储库开发材料。 此外，将邀请研究生参加研讨会，学生参与者将有机会通过参与将信息传播给本地，全州和全国其他实体，成为现场安全的大使。 这些机会还将允许研究生在学术界内外建立其专业网络。 人们普遍认识到，基于现场的培训对于在地球和环境科学中整合知识至关重要，这对于在碳氢化合物和环境行业的就业至关重要。 全国地球科学教师协会（NAGT）和埃克森美孚（Exxonmobil）一直在改善现场安全方案方面。 但是，当前标准中不发达的组件之一是类似野外训练营的方案的协议，在该方案中，学生日复一日地分布在广泛的区域中。 该研讨会的结果将是一组标准操作程序（SOP），可以适应任何分散的小组现场活动，无论是教育实地考察，研究实地考察还是实地营地。 这些程序将通过活动的准备和培训来帮助教师减轻事故，这将导致该领域的事故和时间更少。 最终，这将增强和改善科学教育，因为讲师将对他们的安全协议充满信心，并能够专注于学生学习，并确保学生将制定协议以确保他们的安全性，并且事件的减少减少将导致有限和昂贵的现场时间中的破坏较少，在昂贵的现场时间期间，这一奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，反映了经过评估的范围。