GP-UP: Authentic Cruise and Research Experiences for Underrepresented Students (ACREUS).

GP-UP：为代表性不足的学生提供真实的游轮和研究体验（ACREUS）。

• 批准号: 2119926
• 负责人: Robert Pockalny
• 金额: $ 28.89万
• 依托单位: University of Rhode Island
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2119926&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; UP; Authentic; Cruise; Research

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Large and growing segments of the US population are not adequately represented in educational pathways that lead to careers in the STEM workforce. This project seeks to recruit, prepare, and promote retention of students from historically underrepresented groups into the STEM career pipeline with a primary focus on Earth and ocean sciences. The approach will include partnering with undergraduate and associate-degree institutions to recruit diverse cohorts of student participants. The program will provide a total of twenty-four students with professional development and experiential training that will prepare them for participation in a range of possible research cruises. Program activities will provide students with opportunities for workplace skill-building via data collection, data analysis, and visualizations for on-the-water and remote oceanographic research projects. Professional development activities and post-program support will assist students with identifying and pursuing educational opportunities or careers in STEM and Earth/ocean science fields.The University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO/URI) will work with the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, and the Community College of Rhode Island to recruit students to participate in the professional development activities. The program will expose diverse cohorts of early-career community college and undergraduate students to a range of authentic oceanographic field experiences from shore (telepresence and small-boat) at GSO/URI during a one-week summer program and at sea as shipboard science party members of an oceanographic research cruise. The activities will provide students with opportunities for workplace skill-building via data collection, data analysis, and data visualization for on-the-water and remote oceanographic research projects. Professional development activities and post-program support will assist students with identifying and pursuing educational opportunities or careers in STEM and Earth/ocean science fields. The strategy is to immerse students in a broad spectrum of oceanographic research to help them identify their primary areas of oceanographic interest and provide fundamental content knowledge and transferable instrumentation and data analysis skills that are important for workplace skill building. The strategy enables the development of networks for the students both within their cohort and outwards into the established oceanographic community of researchers and operators. The model also includes maintaining communication with the participants after the program to assist with navigating educational and career opportunities. This program builds upon established models of providing real-world experiences to aspiring ocean scientists, but also explores how best to apply at-sea participation and science-party integration to recruit and retain students from historically underrepresented groups.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助（公法117-2）。在美国人口的范围内，不足以在导致STEM劳动力职业的教育途径中充分代表。该项目旨在招募，准备和促进从历史上代表性不足的群体中保留学生进入STEM职业生涯中的学生，主要关注地球和海洋科学。该方法将包括与本科和副学位机构合作，以招募各种学生参与者。该计划将为共有24名学生提供专业发展和体验培训，这将使他们为参与一系列可能的研究巡游做好准备。计划活动将通过数据收集，数据分析和可视化的水域和远程海洋学研究项目为学生提供工作场所技能建设的机会。专业发展活动和计划后的支持将帮助学生在STEM和地球/海洋科学领域识别和寻求教育机会或职业。该计划将在一周的夏季课程中，在GSO/URI的海岸（远程诉讼和小型船）和海上科学党成员的海洋学研究巡游成员中，将使早期职业社区学院和本科生各种各样的人群接触到来自GSO/URI的一系列真实的海洋现场体验。这些活动将通过数据收集，数据分析以及用于水上和远程海洋学研究项目的数据可视化为学生提供工作场所技能的机会。专业发展活动和程序后支持将帮助学生在STEM和Earth/Earth/Ocean Science领域识别和寻求教育机会或职业。该策略是将学生浸入广泛的海洋学研究中，以帮助他们确定其海洋学兴趣的主要领域，并提供基本的内容知识以及可转移的仪器和数据分析技能，这对于工作场所技能很重要。该策略可以为他们的队列中的学生开发网络，并向外进入既定的研究人员和运营商海洋学社区。该模型还包括在计划结束后与参与者保持沟通，以协助导航教育和职业机会。该计划建立在为有抱负的海洋科学家提供现实世界经验的既定模型的基础上，但也探讨了如何最好地将AT-SEA参与和科学派对融合应用于历史上代表性不足的群体中招募和留住学生。该奖项反映了NSF的立法使命，并通过基金会的智力效果进行评估，并以评估值得评估。