GP-IN: Alaska Aquaculture Science Knowledge (ASK)

GP-IN：阿拉斯加水产养殖科学知识 (ASK)

• 批准号: 2113470
• 负责人: Lisa Busch
• 金额: $ 32.44万
• 依托单位: SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2113470&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; Alaska; Aquaculture; Science; Knowledge

This project is jointly funded by the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program and IUSE. GEOPath Informal Networks: Alaska Aquaculture Science Knowledge (ASK) will strengthen and sustain the educational and career pathways that engage and retain Alaska Native and rural Alaska precollege students who are currently under represented in STEM fields. ASK will build skills and competency in aquaculture which is critical to feeding the nation and world in the coming decades and vital to the national economy and workforce. The goals of the project will advance prosperity and welfare by creating a labor force that can help assure food security in the coming decades. This project will evaluate the strategies of including and validating rural and Alaska Native culture into a field science curriculum, provide hands on learning experiences and engage populations that have historically been excluded in STEM. The project will demonstrate to other coastal communities, biological field stations, and hatcheries in rural areas how a collaboration between industry, school districts and a university or community college, can facilitate student engagement in research and engage the aquaculture industry and universities in recruiting students who have basic geoscience skills. The goal of ASK is to provide aquaculture educational experiences to pre-college rural and Alaska Native students to transition successfully into undergraduate programs or directly into the STEM workforce by demonstrating that their cultural background, worldview and experiences are relevant and valuable to academic study and careers in geosciences. This will be done through four objectives: 1. Institute an off campus, salmon hatchery-based course that introduces upper level high school students to aquaculture 2. Provide mentored, hands-on research opportunities for pre-college students. 3. Create a job fair for aquaculture and fisheries related fields specifically for these students and 4. Offer a paid summer internship for upper level high school students at a working salmon hatchery. The Sitka Sound Science Center, the University of Alaska Southeast Sitka, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Sitka High School and Pacific High School have extensive experience working together and creating successful STEM programs that serve the specific needs of Alaska Natives and rural Alaskan students. The needs of engagement for these populations require inclusion and validation of cultural experiences and an emphasis on how new STEM skills and knowledge can be extensions of traditional Native and rural cultures. The class for three high schools that serve low income, Alaska Native and rural students, will cover a broad range of aquaculture content, including oceanography, marine science, forest ecology, ecological studies of watersheds and aquatic and marine sciences as well as hatchery skills, fish culture and mariculture concepts. Place-based, hands on teaching will validate rural and Alaska Native cultural experiences in the outdoors and demonstrate how those experiences apply to aquaculture. Students who successfully participate in this program will be offered an independent, mentored research project for dual credit. Outcomes of this project will be a clear pathway for rural and Alaska Native high school students into university programs and industry jobs.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.

该项目由刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）计划和IUSE共同资助。GEOPath非正式网络：阿拉斯加水产科学知识（ASK）将加强和维持教育和职业途径，吸引和留住阿拉斯加原住民和农村阿拉斯加预科学生谁是目前在干领域的代表。ASK将培养水产养殖方面的技能和能力，这对未来几十年养活国家和世界至关重要，对国民经济和劳动力至关重要。该项目的目标将通过创造一支能够帮助确保未来几十年粮食安全的劳动力队伍来促进繁荣和福利。该项目将评估包括和验证农村和阿拉斯加原住民文化到实地科学课程的战略，提供动手学习经验，并参与历史上被排除在STEM的人口。该项目将向其他沿海社区，生物野外站和农村地区的孵化场展示工业，学区和大学或社区学院之间的合作如何促进学生参与研究，并使水产养殖业和大学招募具有基本地球科学技能的学生。ASK的目标是提供水产养殖教育经验，以大学预科农村和阿拉斯加原住民学生成功过渡到本科课程或直接进入干劳动力，通过证明他们的文化背景，世界观和经验是相关的和宝贵的学术研究和职业生涯在地球科学。这将通过四个目标来实现：1。学院校外，鲑鱼孵化为基础的课程，介绍高层次的高中学生水产养殖2。为大学预科学生提供指导，动手研究的机会。3.专门为这些学生举办水产养殖和渔业相关领域的招聘会;为高年级的高中生提供一个在鲑鱼孵化场工作的带薪暑期实习机会。锡特卡声音科学中心，阿拉斯加东南锡特卡大学，山。Edgecumbe高中，Sitka高中和太平洋高中有着丰富的合作经验，并创造了成功的STEM项目，为阿拉斯加原住民和阿拉斯加农村学生的特定需求服务。这些人口的参与需要文化经验的包容和验证，并强调新的STEM技能和知识如何成为传统的土著和农村文化的延伸。为低收入、阿拉斯加原住民和农村学生服务的三所高中开设的课程将涵盖广泛的水产养殖内容，包括海洋学、海洋科学、森林生态学、流域生态研究、水生和海洋科学以及孵化技能、鱼类养殖和海水养殖概念。基于地方的实践教学将验证农村和阿拉斯加原住民在户外的文化经验，并展示这些经验如何适用于水产养殖。谁成功地参加这个计划的学生将提供一个独立的，指导的研究项目双学分。该项目的成果将为农村和阿拉斯加原住民高中学生进入大学课程和行业工作提供一条明确的途径。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。