Standard Research Grant: Community Science and Environmental Conservation

标准研究补助金：社区科学与环境保护

• 批准号: 1947096
• 负责人: Michael Weisberg
• 金额: $ 46.33万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1947096&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Standard; Research; Grant; Community; Science

Islands are important conservation sites. But because island ecosystems are often extremely fragile, the people who live on them are simultaneously the source of the greatest stress on these ecosystems and potentially their most effective protectors. To begin to address this issue, this project engages island residents, particularly students, in the process of community science: co-developing and co-investigating issues of local concern using the tools of science. This project specifically focuses on training cohorts of high school students to study the behavior patterns of endangered species. Interactions between humans and these species can serve as a microcosm of the larger issues of human ecology on islands, and results of these students' investigations can help to find ways that people can productively co-exist with non-human animals. Further, these students' participation in this project may increase their understanding of the scientific process and their motivations for conservation. Because this proposed study engages high school students in an ecologically fragile part of the world, it has the potential to have a significant positive impact on conservation and ecological awareness in a uniquely vulnerable environment and to serve as a model for similar efforts around the world.This community science project has three tiers. First, local high-school students are trained to collect observations on endangered species, their behaviors, and any changes to these behaviors due to the presence of humans. These students are also responsible for disseminating their results to their community and developing new conservation efforts, with the guidance of the project team. The second tier involves an empirical investigation of how these students experience the impacts of their participation in this project. This research will examine the extent to which this deep engagement in community science affects the students' attitudes towards conservation, ecological literacy, and understanding of the nature of science. The third tier involves philosophical reflections on the project, specifically the ways in which it can inform questions about the epistemology and ethics of science and contribute to parallel discussions in philosophy of conservation biology. This project thus benefits endangered species, has the potential to increase students' motivations to protect their local environment, generates novel scientific insights, and stimulates a small but growing literature on the philosophy of community science.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.

岛屿是重要的自然保护区。但由于岛屿生态系统往往极其脆弱，生活在岛屿上的人同时是这些生态系统最大压力的来源，同时也是它们最有效的保护者。为了解决这个问题，这个项目让岛屿居民，特别是学生，参与社区科学的过程：利用科学工具共同开发和共同调查当地关注的问题。这个项目特别侧重于训练一批高中生来研究濒危物种的行为模式。人类与这些物种之间的互动可以作为岛屿上人类生态问题的一个缩影，这些学生的调查结果可以帮助找到人类与非人类动物有效共存的方法。此外，这些学生参与这个项目可以增加他们对科学过程的理解和他们保护的动机。由于这项研究的对象是世界上生态脆弱地区的高中生，因此它有可能对这个独特的脆弱环境中的保护和生态意识产生重大的积极影响，并为世界各地的类似努力提供榜样。这个社区科学项目有三个层次。首先，当地的高中学生接受训练，收集濒危物种的观察结果，它们的行为，以及由于人类的存在而导致的这些行为的变化。在项目小组的指导下，这些学生还要负责向社区传播他们的成果，并开展新的保护工作。第二层涉及对这些学生如何体验他们参与这个项目的影响的实证调查。这项研究将考察这种深入参与社区科学的程度，影响学生对保护、生态素养和对科学本质的理解的态度。第三层涉及对项目的哲学反思，特别是它可以告知有关认识论和科学伦理的问题的方式，并有助于保护生物学哲学的平行讨论。因此，这个项目有利于濒危物种，有可能增加学生保护当地环境的动机，产生新的科学见解，并激发关于社区科学哲学的少量但不断增长的文献。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

LAVA-Lobos: Raising Environmental Awareness through Community Science in the Galápagos Islands

LAVA-Lobos：通过加拉帕戈斯群岛的社区科学提高环境意识

• DOI: 10.5334/cstp.423
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
• 作者: Weisberg, Deena Skolnick;Kovaka, Karen;Vaca, Ernesto;Weisberg, Michael
• 通讯作者: Weisberg, Michael

The effects of human exposure on Galápagos sea lion behavior

人类暴露对加拉帕戈斯海狮行为的影响

• DOI: 10.2981/wlb.00778
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Wildlife Biology
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: Walsh, Justin T.;Kovaka, Karen;Vaca, Ernesto;Weisberg, Deena Skolnick;Weisberg, Michael
• 通讯作者: Weisberg, Michael

Community-based participatory climate action

基于社区的参与性气候行动

• DOI: 10.1017/sus.2023.12
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Global Sustainability
• 影响因子: 5.5
• 作者: Restrepo-Mieth, Andrea;Perry, Jocelyn;Garnick, Jonah;Weisberg, Michael
• 通讯作者: Weisberg, Michael