NRT-HDR: Science Museums Advance Research and Training through Convergence of Objects, Data, and Inference

NRT-HDR：科学博物馆通过对象、数据和推理的融合推进研究和培训

• 批准号: 2021744
• 负责人: Thomas Turner
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 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: 2020-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2021744&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; HDR; Science; Museums; Advance

This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award engages faculty and students in a new graduate education model centered in the science museums at the University of New Mexico. The program enables trainees to generate new knowledge about objects from anthropological, biological, and geological museum collections, that will enable multidisciplinary research about how natural, physical, and human systems change through time and space. A central goal will be to understand past changes in the arid Southwestern United States through time, and how life, including diverse human communities, might respond to future changes in climate and water availability. Through research and educational activities, trainees will enhance the informational value of museum objects and collections by harnessing data science and cutting-edge techniques such as high-resolution image analysis, DNA sequencing and informatics, and elemental chemistry. This information will be intersected with data on biodiversity and social or physical systems, with the aim to describe and model biological and cultural responses to environmental and geological change in an environmentally and culturally diverse region. Working together, faculty and student research teams will address coupled human-natural impacts of climate change, water dynamics in drylands, effects of landscape transformation on ecosystem processes, and analytical linkages of object-based information with large-scale data infrastructure. This award enables education, training, and mentoring activities to recruit and train a diverse set of professionals with unique intersectional expertise, and directly supports 40 trainees at the MS and PhD levels, and extends program elements and benefits to 35 additional graduate (75 total) and 40 undergraduate students.This museum-based NRT program addresses significant academic, structural, and cultural barriers that hinder cross-disciplinary initiatives in basic and applied object-based research. Ethical justification for scientific collecting and long-term support of the vast infrastructural investment that the US has made in building collections of physical materials revolves around their utility for answering scientific questions that are critical for societal well-being. Research and education activities include amplifying the information value of museum objects by linking those that share times and places into an Extended Object Network (EON). The EON framework spans across collections, incorporates biodiversity, social, and physical system databases to facilitate the description, testing, and modeling of biological and cultural responses to environmental change. The program prepares students for careers that require: (1) understanding or designing environment- or socio/economic-related research that leverages scientific collections; (2) innovative and effective use of museum resources in educational settings; (3) engaging the broader environmental research and policy community; and, (4) effectively working in collaborative teams, including development of mentoring skills. Program elements include co-mentorship in a cross-museum setting, modular courses that converge epistemological systems across disciplines, activities that provide both generalized and specialized insights into computation and data integration, and training in ethical issues affecting museums collecting and collections-based research. The geographic focus of research and training themes is the American Southwest, a region with rich cultural and natural histories and a well-known history of environmental change. Such place-based research allows trainees to dig into complex problems and is particularly effective at reaching underrepresented students because it is relevant to their own lives, experiences, and communities. Through interactions with external non-academic partners and thematically similar NRTs, this program creates pathways to several careers for trainees who have vital roles to play in science, policy, and resource management. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.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.

这个国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖从事教师和学生在一个新的研究生教育模式为中心的科学博物馆在新墨西哥州的大学。该计划使学员能够从人类学，生物学和地质博物馆收藏中产生有关对象的新知识，这将使多学科研究关于自然，物理和人类系统如何通过时间和空间变化。一个中心目标将是了解过去的变化在干旱的美国西南部通过时间，以及如何生活，包括不同的人类社区，可能会对未来的气候和水的可用性变化作出反应。通过研究和教育活动，学员将通过利用数据科学和尖端技术，如高分辨率图像分析，DNA测序和信息学以及元素化学，提高博物馆物品和收藏品的信息价值。这些信息将与生物多样性和社会或物理系统的数据交叉，旨在描述和建模环境和文化多样性地区对环境和地质变化的生物和文化反应。教师和学生的研究团队将共同努力，解决气候变化的人与自然的耦合影响，旱地的水动力学，景观改造对生态系统过程的影响，以及基于对象的信息与大规模数据基础设施的分析联系。该奖项使教育，培训和指导活动能够招募和培训具有独特交叉专业知识的多元化专业人员，并直接支持40名MS和博士级别的受训人员，并将计划元素和福利扩展到35名额外的研究生（共75名）和40名本科生。这个以博物馆为基础的NRT计划解决了重要的学术，结构，文化障碍阻碍了基础和应用基于对象的研究中的跨学科举措。科学收集的伦理理由和美国在建立物理材料收藏方面所做的大量基础设施投资的长期支持，围绕着它们在回答对社会福祉至关重要的科学问题方面的效用。研究和教育活动包括通过将那些共享时间和地点的博物馆对象连接到扩展对象网络（EON）来放大博物馆对象的信息价值。EON框架跨越了各个集合，整合了生物多样性，社会和物理系统数据库，以促进对环境变化的生物和文化反应的描述，测试和建模。该计划为学生的职业生涯做好准备，这些职业需要：（1）理解或设计利用科学收藏的环境或社会/经济相关研究;（2）在教育环境中创新和有效地利用博物馆资源;（3）参与更广泛的环境研究和政策社区;以及（4）有效地在协作团队中工作，包括指导技能的发展。计划内容包括跨博物馆环境中的共同指导，跨学科融合认识论系统的模块化课程，提供计算和数据集成的一般化和专业化见解的活动，以及影响博物馆收藏和基于收藏的研究的伦理问题的培训。研究和培训主题的地理重点是美国西南部，这是一个具有丰富文化和自然历史以及着名环境变化历史的地区。这种以地方为基础的研究使学员能够深入研究复杂的问题，并且在接触代表性不足的学生方面特别有效，因为它与他们自己的生活，经历和社区有关。通过与外部非学术合作伙伴和主题相似的NRT的互动，该计划为在科学，政策和资源管理方面发挥重要作用的学员创造了几个职业的途径。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励为STEM研究生教育培训开发和实施大胆的，新的潜在变革模式。该计划致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求相一致的综合培训模式，在高优先级的跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。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。

项目成果

Stormwater drives seasonal geochemical processes beneath an infiltration basin

雨水驱动渗透盆地下方的季节性地球化学过程

• DOI: 10.1002/jeq2.20416
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Environmental Quality
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: McQuiggan, Rachel;Andres, A. Scott;Roros, Andreanna;Sturchio, Neil C.
• 通讯作者: Sturchio, Neil C.

Faunal provinciality in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway using network modeling

使用网络模型研究晚白垩世西部内海航道的动物区系

• DOI: 10.1130/g51255.1
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Geology
• 影响因子: 5.8
• 作者: Purcell, Ceara;Scuderi, Louis;Myers, Corinne
• 通讯作者: Myers, Corinne

Long-term ecological research in freshwaters enabled by regional biodiversity collections, stable isotope analysis, and environmental informatics

通过区域生物多样性收集、稳定同位素分析和环境信息学实现淡水的长期生态研究

• DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad039
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: BioScience
• 影响因子: 10.1
• 作者: Turner, Thomas F.;Bart Jr, Henry L.;McCormick, Frank;Besser, Alexi C.;Bowes, Rachel E.;Capps, Krista A.;DeArmon, Emily S.;Dillman, Casey B.;Driscoll, Katelyn P.;Dugger, Aubrey
• 通讯作者: Dugger, Aubrey