International Group Travel: Engaging students in science international decision making: Madrid, Spain - December 2019

国际团体旅行：让学生参与科学国际决策：西班牙马德里 - 2019 年 12 月

• 批准号: 2005421
• 负责人: Gillian Bowser
• 金额: $ 3.09万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 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: 2019-12-15 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005421&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Group; Travel; Engaging; students

Part 1Addressing global environmental issues involves working at the intersection of science and decision making. Graduate students and early career researchers who engage in environmental research, however, have few meaningful opportunities within academia to gain the knowledge and training on how their research can be employed for social innovation and collective impacts. PIs propose an innovative and immersive experience for students on communicating science for decision making through student-led presentations and outreach at an international United Nations meeting on international environmental issues. By coupling training and authentic, real world engagement, students will learn how to navigate environmental issues in decision making, gain intercultural and diplomacy skills and build professional networks. Communicating science to decision makers is a critical part of preparing graduate students and early career researchers. Using a team-based approach to build research presentations for decision makers can provide graduate students professional development opportunities.Part 2Team-based projects can bring together students from different institutional backgrounds as well as from different disciplines. Students from three different institutions have worked together on presentations to international negotiators at the COP25 on science topics related to their own research and tied to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the UN. These topics include carbon markets, atmospheric sciences, emerging technology, gender issues, biodiversity loss, green careers, and many others. Presenting data on complex environmental issues that combines disciplines such as geosciences, atmospheric sciences and environmental sciences will provide students with unique international and interdisciplinary experience. In addition, presenting research in an international context provides students with cross cultural experiences as students move into professional careers. Each student team conducted primary and secondary data gathering on topics related to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) so students experienced aligning research questions with policy target outcomes.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部分解决全球环境问题涉及科学和决策的交叉工作。然而，从事环境研究的研究生和早期职业研究人员在学术界几乎没有什么有意义的机会来获得关于如何将他们的研究用于社会创新和集体影响的知识和培训。PI建议通过在联合国国际环境问题会议上由学生主导的演讲和外联活动，为学生提供一种创新和身临其境的科学决策交流体验。通过结合培训和真实的，真实的世界参与，学生将学习如何在决策中导航环境问题，获得跨文化和外交技能，并建立专业网络。向决策者传达科学是培养研究生和早期职业研究人员的关键部分。使用基于团队的方法为决策者构建研究报告可以为研究生提供专业发展机会。第二部分基于团队的项目可以将来自不同机构背景和不同学科的学生聚集在一起。来自三个不同机构的学生一起在COP25上向国际谈判代表介绍与他们自己的研究有关的科学主题，并与联合国的可持续发展目标（SDG）联系在一起。这些主题包括碳市场、大气科学、新兴技术、性别问题、生物多样性丧失、绿色职业等。介绍有关地球科学，大气科学和环境科学等学科相结合的复杂环境问题的数据将为学生提供独特的国际和跨学科经验。此外，在国际背景下呈现研究为学生提供跨文化的经验，因为学生进入职业生涯。每个学生团队都对与可持续发展目标（SDG）相关的主题进行了主要和次要的数据收集，因此学生们体验了将研究问题与政策目标成果相结合的过程。该奖项反映了NSF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。