Women in Marine Science (WIMS)

9907682史密斯该项目将开发一个网站，让公众和学校的孩子们参与女性海洋科学家的日常科学。 主要目标有两个：鼓励年轻女性从事科学事业，并消除围绕着科学家的神秘感。 在一年的时间里，该网站将以每月杂志的形式突出介绍12名女科学家。 虽然该网站将对所有科学产生影响，但我们将把重点放在女海洋科学家身上，因为这是妇女代表人数仍然不足的领域之一。 此外，它将强调科学职业道路的多样性和选择科学作为职业的妇女的多样性。 网站上的妇女科学将涵盖海洋科学的许多分支学科。 这些女性将拥有化学、生物、物理、工程、数学、地质学或物理学的背景。 这些女性将在不同的职业道路上走向研究，教学，管理，或者这些的组合，并在全国各地的大学和研究机构。 其他妇女将从学士学位直接进入海洋科学工作，例如，作为程序员，实验室技术员和数据分析员。 该项目将利用万维网的独特能力，介绍12名女海洋科学家的个人情况。 每一位女性的科学将以一种显示她们的兴趣如何适合了解地球的方式呈现。 他们试图理解什么？ 他们做什么来理解它？ 到目前为止，他们学到了什么？ 他们未来的目标是什么？ 该网站将提供几种类型的信息。 每个女人的科学的基本原则将在一个迷你科学课解释清楚。 它还将提供科学家的办公室和实验室的意见和日常活动，最近发表的论文，并简短的科学谈话。 通过将所有这些信息放在网络上，用户将能够挑选他们最感兴趣的内容，他们将能够沿着他们想要了解更多的领域的路径。 此外，将有一个论坛，供公众提出自己的问题。 为了有效地接触学生，该网站将在每个女科学家所在的地区确定一所或两所学校，使她们了解该网站及其目标，并向教师提供使用该网站的指南。 该网站的一个单独但重要的部分将提供关于妇女参与海洋科学的历史观点。 本节的目的是讲述海洋科学领域妇女先驱的故事，并向公众介绍过去半个世纪妇女在海洋科学中的作用发生的变化。 随着新千年的临近，有必要退后一步，评估女科学家取得的成就，评估她们如何不再被认为是“独特的”，而是被科学界接受和不可分割的一部分。 最后，WIMS网站将是以网络为基础的妇女参与科学研讨会系列的第一步。 万维网为学生、教师和公众提供了机会，使他们不必旅行就能利用无数地理上分散的教育工作者和专家的知识。 这类资源对于加强代表性不足的群体的学习经验至关重要。

9907682SmithThe project will develop a Web site that will engage the public and school children in the day to day science of women marine scientists. The primary goal is twofold: to encourage young women to pursue careers in science and to remove the mystery that surrounds being a scientist. Over the course of a year the site will highlight 12 woman scientists in a monthly magazine format. While the Web site would have impact on all the sciences, we will focus on women marine scientists since this is one of the fields within which women remain inadequately represented. In addition it will underscore the diversity of career paths in science and the diversity of the women who choose science as career. The science of the women on the Web site will cover many of the subdisciplines within marine science. The women will have backgrounds in chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, mathematics, geology, or geophysics. The women will be at different career paths directed toward research, teaching, administration, or perhaps a combination of these and at various universities and research institutions across the country. Other of the women will have gone directly into marine science from a bachelor's degree working, for example, as programmers, laboratory technicians, and data analysts. The project will use the unique capabilities of the World Wide Web to profile each of the 12 women marine scientists. The science of each of the women will be presented in a way that shows how their interests fit into understanding the Earth. What are they trying to understand? What do they do to understand it? What have they learned to date? What are their future goals? The site will make several types of information available. The basic principals of the science of each woman will be explained clearly in a mini science lesson. It will also provide views of the scientist's offices and laboratories and the daily activities therein, a recently published paper, and a short scientific talk. By placing all of this information on the Web, users will be able to pick and choose what interests them most and they will be able to follow paths to areas that they want to learn more about. In addition, there will be a forum for the public to ask their own questions. In order to reach students in an effective way, the site will identify one or two schools in the local area of each of the women scientists and make them aware of the Web site and its goals and provide the teachers with a guide to using the Web site. A separate but important part of the Web site will offer an historical perspective on women in marine science. The objective in this section is to tell the stories of pioneering women in marine science and to convey to the public the way in which women's roles in marine science have changed in the last half-century. As the new millennium approaches it is appropriate to step back and assess what women scientists have accomplished, how they are no longer considered 'unique' but instead are an accepted and integral part of the scientific community. Finally, the WIMS Web site will be a first step towards Web-based women in science seminar series. The World Wide Web provides opportunities for students, teachers, and the public to draw on the knowledge of myriad, geographically dispersed educators and experts without the necessity of travel. This type of resource is critically needed to enhance the learning experience for under-represented groups.