GP-IN: Families and University Together as a Unit for Research and Education (FUTURE): Connecting Hispanic Families to Geosciences Through Community Informal Learning Network

GP-IN：家庭和大学共同作为研究和教育的一个单位（未来）：通过社区非正式学习网络将西班牙裔家庭与地球科学联系起来

• 批准号: 2120031
• 负责人: Chu-Lin Cheng
• 金额: $ 31.5万
• 依托单位: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• 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: 2021-11-01 至 2025-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2120031&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; Families; University; Together; Unit

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). A strong and diversified next generation geoscience workforce will play a critical role in solving crucial global threats (water, energy, natural hazards, and food) under climate stresses in the coming decades. In the U.S., the geoscience workforce has the least ethnic diversity compared to other STEM fields (e.g., ~3% Hispanics). National Academies Press states that minority serving institutions are America's under-utilized resource for strengthening the STEM workforce for the near future. The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), as the nation’s second largest Hispanic serving institution (with ~32,000 students and ~90% Hispanic), and its location at the U.S.-Mexico border, make it an ideal hub for training the future Hispanic Geoscience workforce. The FUTURE project integrates the Hispanic culture into an informal Geoscience and STEM learning pathway through a family-centered model to address the challenge of enhancing Hispanic participation in STEM. A family-centered learning framework will help families understand one of the most critical elements in their lives – “water supply/resources” and its relationship to the geoscience/Earth environment. With the experience gained in a previous GEOPATHS project, the project team aims to expand and scale up the established platform and infrastructure of its existing program transforming the traditional Geoscience Learning Ecosystems (GLEs) while nurturing the Hispanic Geoscience workforce in a way that can be expanded to other minority serving institutions.The FUTURE project will explore how the family can be placed at the center of informal STEM learning and be the basis for understanding a geoscience issue – how water “works;” i.e., the water cycle with humans at the center, and the activities/link to Earth environment (i.e., mining and agriculture in Texas). The FUTURE project has four objectives: (1) Establish an Informal Learning Network with a water and Earth-Environmental Science theme at communities; (2) Change Hispanic families' (parents and children) perspectives towards geosciences careers; (3) Recruit students into geoscience through a developed network and (4) Provide a channel into geoscience education and career paths for local junior/senior high school and 2-year college students. The project offers activities focused on water, soil, rocks and minerals, geoscience and their relationship to Rio Grande Valley’s history and economics (oil/gas mining and agriculture). FUTURE’s innovative approach will test how Informal Learning Networks between the local community and educational institutions can transform GLE for individuals from groups that have historically been underrepresented in STEM.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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金根据《2021 年美国救援计划法案》（公法 117-2）提供。未来几十年，强大且多元化的下一代地球科学队伍将在解决气候压力下的全球重大威胁（水、能源、自然灾害和粮食）方面发挥关键作用。在美国，与其他 STEM 领域相比，地球科学劳动力的种族多样性最少（例如约 3% 的西班牙裔）。美国国家科学院出版社指出，少数族裔服务机构是美国在不久的将来加强 STEM 劳动力方面未得到充分利用的资源。德克萨斯大学里奥格兰德河谷分校 (UTRGV) 作为美国第二大拉美裔服务机构（拥有约 32,000 名学生，其中约 90% 是拉美裔），且位于美国和墨西哥边境，使其成为培训未来拉美裔地球科学劳动力的理想中心。 FUTURE 项目通过以家庭为中心的模式，将西班牙裔文化融入非正式的地球科学和 STEM 学习途径，以应对提高西班牙裔人参与 STEM 的挑战。以家庭为中心的学习框架将帮助家庭了解他们生活中最关键的要素之一——“供水/资源”及其与地球科学/地球环境的关系。凭借之前 GEOPATHS 项目中获得的经验，项目团队的目标是扩大和扩大现有项目的既定平台和基础设施，转变传统的地球科学学习生态系统 (GLE)，同时以可扩展到其他少数族裔服务机构的方式培养西班牙裔地球科学劳动力。未来项目将探索如何将家庭置于非正式 STEM 学习的中心，并成为理解地球科学的基础 问题——水如何“运作”；即以人类为中心的水循环，以及与地球环境的活动/联系（即德克萨斯州的采矿和农业）。 FUTURE项目有四个目标：（1）在社区建立一个以水和地球环境科学为主题的非正式学习网络； （2）改变西班牙裔家庭（父母和孩子）对地球科学职业的看法； （3）通过发达的网络招收地球科学学生；（4）为当地初/高中和两年制大学生提供进入地球科学教育和职业道路的渠道。该项目提供的活动重点关注水、土壤、岩石和矿物、地球科学及其与里奥格兰德河谷历史和经济（石油/天然气开采和农业）的关系。 FUTURE 的创新方法将测试当地社区和教育机构之间的非正式学习网络如何为历史上在 STEM 中代表性不足的群体中的个人转变 GLE。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点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

Impacts of Episodic Freshwater Inflow Pulses on Seagrass Dynamics in the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas, 1998–2017

1998 年至 2017 年德克萨斯州马德雷湖下游间歇性淡水流入脉冲对海草动态的影响

• DOI: 10.1007/s12237-023-01170-5
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Estuaries and Coasts (SPECIAL ISSUE: LOW INFLOW ESTUARIES
• 作者: DeYoe, Hudson R.;Pulich, Warren;Lupher, Melissa;Neupane, Ram;Guthrie, Carla G.
• 通讯作者: Guthrie, Carla G.