Implementation Grant: Community-Soil-Air-Water (CSAW): A Model Community-Based Learning Ecosystem to Transform Geosciences

实施资助：社区-土壤-空气-水（CSAW）：一个基于社区的学习生态系统模型，以改变地球科学

• 批准号: 2228192
• 负责人: Katherine Hankins
• 金额: $ 717.51万
• 依托单位: Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228192&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Grant; Community; Soil; Air

The Community-Soil-Air-Water (CSAW) learning ecosystem will integrate justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion into the practices of collaborating with communities in geosciences research. To expand capacity and accountability in socio-environmental research collaborations between geoscientists and community partners, CSAW will bring together three academic partners (Georgia State University, a Predominantly Black Institution, Spelman College, a Historically Black College, and Emory University) with two community organizations: the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance and ECO-Action. This project will address the question: How can Geoscientists learn from, contribute to, and find solutions with communities facing fundamental problems related to Earth systems? CSAW will examine how a learning ecosystem model centered in community-engaged, place-based research can increase: (1) recruitment, retention, and training of diverse geoscientists; and (2) capacity for and accountability within collaboration between geoscientists and communities addressing socio-environmental problems. Cohorts of faculty and community organizers along with 12 post-baccalaureate (postbac) scholars and 15 Master’s students will be trained in building outreach and research projects with community partners using a framework of shared values of equity, transparency, and accountability. These projects will address critical needs in place-based Earth systems research including Soil lead and other heavy metal contamination and radon exposure; Air pollution, climate change, and heat mapping; and Water pollution, urban flooding, and green stormwater infrastructure. The overall goals and objectives of the project are to build a BRIDGE: 1) Build and formalize the CSAW learning ecosystem with all cohort members to solve socio-environmental challenges; 2) Recruit diverse cohorts of postbacs and Master’s students and train them in professional development, community engagement, and networking, with a focus on centering justice, equity, and inclusion; 3) Implement training, programming, and pedagogy protocols to recruit, mentor, and support diverse students, community collaborators, and faculty in the geosciences; 4) Develop an asset-based model of collaboration with community-driven research to include formal training, accountability, and assessment for engagement practices and outcomes; and 5) Grow a network, materials, and prototype to expand the CSAW learning Ecosystem model to other communities, universities, and institutions. CSAW partnerships will advance a broad range of scholarship on socio-environmental problems and their solutions, and on best practices for geoscientists in community engagement, accountability, and co-production. CSAW will provide a well-evaluated and successful model to adopt in transformative geosciences work across disciplines. Through broadening participation of underrepresented groups and building and enhancing partnerships with community advocacy groups, the CSAW learning ecosystem will provide a prototype to promote geoscience transformations at other institutions and across disciplines.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.

社区-土壤-空气-水（CSAW）学习生态系统将把公正、公平、多样性和包容性纳入与社区合作进行地球科学研究的实践中。为了扩大地球科学家和社区合作伙伴之间的社会环境研究合作的能力和问责制，CSAW将汇集三个学术合作伙伴（格鲁吉亚州立大学，主要是黑人机构，斯佩尔曼学院，历史上的黑人学院和埃默里大学）与两个社区组织：西亚特兰大流域联盟和生态行动。该项目将解决这样一个问题：地球科学家如何从面临与地球系统有关的基本问题的社区中学习，为社区做出贡献并找到解决方案？CSAW将研究如何以社区参与，基于地方的研究为中心的学习生态系统模型可以增加：（1）招聘，保留和培训不同的地球科学家;和（2）地球科学家和社区之间的合作能力和问责制解决社会环境问题。教师和社区组织者的队列沿着与12个后学士学位（postbac）学者和15个硕士生将在建设推广和研究项目与社区合作伙伴使用公平，透明度和问责制的共同价值观的框架进行培训。这些项目将解决基于地点的地球系统研究的关键需求，包括土壤铅和其他重金属污染和氡暴露;空气污染，气候变化和热图;水污染，城市洪水和绿色雨水基础设施。该项目的总体目标和目的是建立一个桥梁：1）与所有队列成员建立并正式化CSAW学习生态系统，以解决社会环境挑战; 2）招募不同的postbacs和硕士生队列，并在专业发展，社区参与和网络方面对他们进行培训，重点是正义，公平和包容; 3）实施培训，编程和教学协议，以招募，指导和支持不同的学生，社区合作者和地球科学教师; 4）开发基于资产的合作模式，与社区驱动的研究，包括正式的培训，问责制和参与实践和成果的评估; 5）发展网络、材料和原型，将CSAW学习生态系统模型扩展到其他社区、大学和机构。CSAW伙伴关系将推动广泛的社会环境问题及其解决方案的奖学金，以及地球科学家在社区参与，问责制和共同生产方面的最佳实践。CSAW将提供一个经过良好评估和成功的模型，用于跨学科的变革性地球科学工作。通过扩大代表性不足的群体的参与，并建立和加强与社区倡导团体的伙伴关系，CSAW学习生态系统将提供一个原型，以促进其他机构和跨学科的地球科学转型。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。