Conference: Scientists as Allies: Community-centered Approaches to Climate Resilience

该项目将组织和主办一系列研讨会，以确定“趋同加速器”轨道的参数和子要素，利用公民科学和社区科学增强社区复原力。这项工作的核心是让社会和科学家共同设想如何最好地将发现与对真正社区的复原力至关重要的解决方案联系起来。这项工作将把科学家和非科学家聚集在一起，特别关注历史上被忽视或边缘化群体的需求和关注，以确定导致更公正和可持续未来的社区科学方法。拟议的轨道预计将确定能够促进文化和系统变革的试点努力，从而帮助科学更具包容性、相关性和对社区需求的响应性。这些见解如果在一个轨道上实施，可能会对科学与社区的参与产生变革性的影响——极大地改变科学家和科学机构的参与方式以及公众对科学的看法。这个多模式的研讨会计划包括在线创意、鼓舞人心的微演讲、互动虚拟研讨会和现场合成。一个特别的重点将是在传统的科学方法和其他在非科学家中更为普遍的认识方式之间建立桥梁。将这些方法结合在一起有望提高科学素养，建立对科学的信任，并扩展什么是科学的概念。这项工作将特别关注历史上被忽视或边缘化的群体，确保从这次研讨会发展起来的未来社区科学和公民科学工作也能促进公平和正义。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This project will organize and host a set of workshops to identify the parameters and sub-elements for a Convergence Accelerator track enhancing community resilience using citizen-science and community-science. The core of this effort is to engage society and scientists together to envision how best to links discoveries to solutions that matter for real communities’ resilience. This effort will bring scientists and non-scientists together, focusing especially on the needs and concerns of historically neglected or marginalized groups, to define community-science approaches that lead to a more just and sustainable future. The proposed track is expected to identify pilot efforts that can facilitate cultural and systemic change that can help the sciences be more inclusive, relevant, and responsive to community needs. These insights, if implemented in a track, could have transformative impacts on scientific engagement with communities – dramatically changing how scientists and scientific institutions engage and how the public views science. This multimodal workshop effort plans to include online ideation, inspirational micro-presentations, interactive virtual workshops, and in-person synthesis. A particular focus will be on building bridges between traditional scientific approaches and other ways of knowing more prevalent among non-scientists. Bringing these approaches together is expected to improve scientific literacy, build trust in science, and expand the conception of what counts as science. This effort will especially focus on communities that have been historically neglected or marginalized groups, ensuring that future community-science and citizen science efforts that develop from this workshop can also enhance equity and justice.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.