Producing New Geo-media to Increase Outreach and Diversity

根据这一项目，将制作一部新的电视连续剧《道格的地质日记》，并在公共广播服务(PBS)网络上首播。这部电视剧旨在让地质概念吸引众多不同的电视观众。对于想要更深入地研究地质学的观众，以及希望将该系列内容用作课堂教学辅助工具的教师，将推出一个系列网站，其中包括课堂课程和额外的相关视频内容，指导学生用最少的设备制作自己的科学视频。在这个项目下，还将制作一部单独的一小时电视纪录片《板块星球》，这部纪录片讲述了地质学的主导理论--板块构造。该项目旨在引起公众对令人兴奋的地质学进步的关注，以及在世界各地具有挑战性的环境中做出新发现的地球科学家社区的工作。在解决日益严重的自然资源短缺、气候变化和地震、洪水、山体滑坡和火山喷发等地质灾害方面，地质概念的知识变得越来越重要，这一点至关重要。该项目满足了公共广播公司受众对更多面向地球科学的节目的渴望，同时突出了高度多样化的科学家群体为更充分地了解和欣赏地球的地质属性所做的至关重要的工作。这项提议将使公共广播公司和国际广播公司能够制作和发行新的地球科学电视连续剧的第一集，并通过流媒体和DVD进行传播。将推出一个配套的教育资源网站，将该系列节目的影响扩大到课堂上，其中包括一段培训视频，指导用户如何制作自己的科学探索视频的基础知识。根据该项目，将制作一部新的电视连续剧《道格的地质日记》(暂定标题)，并在公共广播服务(PBS)网络上首播。该系列和这部一小时纪录片的制片人都是地球图像基金会的Doug Prose和Diane LaMacchia，他们已经制作了18部成功的纪录片供PBS播出，并在所有七大洲进行了现场拍摄。该项目的主要目标是制作推广产品，提高公众对地球科学概念、研究和职业的认识和兴趣，并提供有效的教育资源，以加强K-12教师的地质学教学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A new television series, Doug's Geology Journal, will be produced and premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network under this project. The series is designed to make geological concepts compelling to a large and diverse television audience. For viewers who want to delve deeper into geology, and for teachers wishing to use the series' content as a teaching aid in the classroom, a series website will be launched with classroom lessons, and additional related video content that instructs students in making their own science video with minimal equipment. Also under this project, a separate one-hour television documentary, Planet of the Plates, about geology's leading theory, plate tectonics, will be produced. This project aims to bring to the attention of the public exciting geologic advancements and the work of a community of geoscientists making new discoveries in challenging settings around the world. This is crucial at a time when knowledge of geological concepts is becoming increasingly important in addressing growing natural resource shortages, climate change, and geologic hazards such as earthquakes, flooding, landslides, and volcanic eruptions. This project addresses the desire of the PBS audience for more geoscience-oriented programming, while highlighting the vital work of a highly diverse groups of scientists to more fully understand and appreciate the Earth's geological attributes. This proposal will enable the production and distribution of the first set of episodes of a new geoscience television series for PBS and international broadcast, as well as distribution via streaming and DVD. A companion website of educational resources that expand the impact of the series to the classroom will be launched, including a training video that instructs users in the basics of making their own video about their own science explorations. A new television series, Doug's Geology Journal (working title) will be produced and premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network under this project. The producers of both the series and the one-hour documentary are Doug Prose and Diane LaMacchia of Earth Images Foundation, filmmakers who have produced eighteen successful documentaries for PBS broadcast, filmed on location on all seven continents. The primary goals of this project are to produce outreach products that raise public awareness and interest in geoscience concepts, research and careers, as well as to provide effective educational resources to enhance the teaching of geology by K-12 teachers.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.