GIS Training Program for Population Scientists

描述(由申请者提供)：人口科学地理信息系统培训计划有两个主要目标。主要目标是在当前的年轻人口科学家群体中迅速采用和使用人口研究中的空间方法，次要目标是为在我们拟议的人口科学和地理信息系统讲习班系列于2006年完成期间和之后继续传播这种方法提供基础设施。为了实现主要目标，我们提议在两年内(2004年9月至2006年8月)，通过四个为期两周的讲习班(每个讲习班20至25人)，为80-100名年轻的人口统计学家提供标准化的强化培训。讲习班将主要面向在NICHD支持的人口培训中心和更广泛的人口中心协会(APC)学习人口学的跨学科博士前学生。我们还希望吸引人口学相关学科的其他研究生(包括农业经济学、人类学、经济学、地理学、公共卫生、农村社会学、社会学)以及年轻教职员工和受雇于人口机构的研究人员。人口科学和地理信息系统讲习班将提供：(1)地理信息系统、空间分析、空间统计、测绘和可视化的基本入门；(2)重点关注人口研究中的应用；(3)讨论空间方法最重要的基本问题，包括推理、空间相关性、空间异质性、尺度、不确定性和生态学谬误等问题；(4)让与会者有机会使用自己的数据；(5)通过小组项目和小组讨论促进对等互动的活动；以及，(Vi)促进点对点互动和帮助建立学者社区的社会活动。为了实现第二个目标，我们将补充现有的网站资源，最重要的是将为研讨会和研讨会期间生成的课程材料调整为通过基于网络的教学进行自我进度培训。这项提案汇集了宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所(PRI)和加州大学圣巴巴拉分校空间综合社会科学中心(CSISS)的教员，并吸收了美国四大地理系中两个系的教员。宾夕法尼亚州立大学和加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的伙伴关系建立在共享专业知识(地理信息系统教学、地理、研讨会和会议管理)和互补专业知识(人口科学、远程教育和数字图书馆)的基础上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The GIS Training Program in Population Science has two main goals. The primary goal is to jump-start the adoption and use of spatial methods in population research among the current cohort of young population scientists and the secondary goal is to provide the infrastructure for continuing diffusion of such methods during and after our proposed Population Science and GIS workshop series has been completed in 2006. To achieve the primary goals we propose to provide standardized, intensive training in a demography-tailored GIS course for 80-100 young demographers via four 2-week workshops (20-25 participants per workshop) over two years (September 2004-August 2006). The workshops will primarily target interdisciplinary pre-doctoral students studying demography at NICHD-supported population training centers, and the wider Association of Population Centers (APC). We also expect to attract other graduate students in demography related disciplines (including agricultural economics, anthropology, economics, geography, public health, rural sociology, sociology) as well as young faculty, and researchers employed in population agencies. The Population Science and GIS workshop will provide: (i) a basic introduction to GIS, spatial analysis, spatial statistics, mapping, and visualization; (ii) a strong focus on applications in population research; (iii) coverage of the most important basic issues of spatial methods, including problems of inference, spatial dependence, spatial heterogeneity, scale, uncertainty, and the ecological fallacy; (iv) opportunities for participants to work with their own data; (v) activities that foster peer-to-peer interaction, through group projects and small-group discussions; and, (vi) social activities that foster peer-to-peer interactions and help to build a community of scholars. To achieve the secondary goal, we will supplement the existing website resources and most importantly adapt the course materials generated for and during the workshop for self-paced training via web based delivery. This proposal brings together faculty from the Population Research Institute (PRI) at Penn State and the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) at the University of California at Santa Barbara as well as drawing on faculty from two of the top four departments of geography in the United States. The Penn State and UC Santa Barbara partnership builds upon shared expertise (GIS instruction, geography, workshop and conference management) and complementary expertise (demographic science, distance learning, and digital libraries).