BIORETS: Global Change Ecology at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

BIORETS：史密森环境研究中心的全球变化生态学

• 批准号: 2147080
• 负责人: Alison Cawood
• 金额: $ 55.75万
• 依托单位: Smithsonian Institution
• 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: 2022-02-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BIORETS; Global; Change; Ecology; Smithsonian

The Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) will provide middle school teachers from Anne Arundel County Public Schools and Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland and District of Columbia Public Schools in Washington, DC with hands-on participation in research on global change. The teachers will study a variety of topics, including ecosystem conservation, climate change, biological invasions, and biodiversity to understand how ecosystems are changing. Through the program, teachers will be trained in a range of current scientific research techniques. This will increase their understanding of the scientific process, result in meaningful learning experiences, and provide them the support to begin implementing authentic research and data analysis in their classrooms. The teachers will engage with hundreds of students each year, providing high quality STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) resources and access to a large network of STEM professionals to inspire their students.In recent centuries, humans have dramatically altered the planet through habitat fragmentation, increased greenhouse gases, species introductions, excess nutrient loading, and native species extirpation. Determining and ultimately mitigating the consequences of these global transformations is a major goal in ecology, and the primary focus of the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. The environmental issues of the 21st century are complex and require a multi-disciplinary approach. Through the program, teachers will be trained in many subfields including ecology, chemistry, genetics, and quantitative ecology, resulting in rich experiences and scientific impacts. After their summer experiences, teachers will have increased their understanding of and comfort with current research practices and techniques and have the support to begin implementing authentic research and data analysis practices in their classrooms. More than half of the students in the target school districts are students of color, and large portions of the students are considered economically disadvantaged. Students from these demographics often have less access to high quality STEM teaching and learning materials. By engaging teachers from these districts in hands-on research and preparing them to better integrate the authentic science practices in their classrooms, not only will the teachers benefit from increased environmental science knowledge and self-efficacy, but their students and school communities will benefit as well. The teachers will engage with hundreds of students each year, providing high quality STEM resources and access to a large network of STEM professionals to better inspire and engage their STEM students.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.

史密森环境研究中心（SERC）的教师研究经验（RET）计划将为马里兰州的安妮阿伦德尔县公立学校和乔治王子县公立学校以及华盛顿的哥伦比亚特区公立学校的中学教师提供参与全球变化研究的实践。教师将研究各种主题，包括生态系统保护，气候变化，生物入侵和生物多样性，以了解生态系统如何变化。通过该计划，教师将接受一系列当前科学研究技术的培训。这将增加他们对科学过程的理解，产生有意义的学习经验，并为他们提供支持，开始在课堂上实施真实的研究和数据分析。教师们每年将与数百名学生进行交流，提供高质量的STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）资源，并接触到一个庞大的STEM专业人士网络，以激励学生。近几个世纪以来，人类通过栖息地破碎化、温室气体增加、物种引进、过量营养负荷和本土物种灭绝，极大地改变了地球。确定并最终减轻这些全球变化的后果是生态学的一个主要目标，也是史密森环境研究中心教师研究经验（RET）计划的主要重点。世纪的环境问题是复杂的，需要多学科的方法。通过该计划，教师将在生态学，化学，遗传学和数量生态学等多个子领域接受培训，从而获得丰富的经验和科学影响。在他们的夏季经验，教师将增加他们的理解和舒适与当前的研究实践和技术，并有支持开始实施真实的研究和数据分析实践在他们的教室。目标学区一半以上的学生是有色人种学生，大部分学生被认为是经济弱势群体。来自这些人口统计数据的学生通常无法获得高质量的STEM教学和学习材料。通过让这些地区的教师参与实践研究，并让他们更好地将真实的科学实践融入课堂，不仅教师将从增加的环境科学知识和自我效能中受益，而且他们的学生和学校社区也将受益。这些教师每年将与数百名学生接触，提供高质量的STEM资源，并接触到庞大的STEM专业人士网络，以更好地激励和吸引他们的STEM学生。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估来支持。