Oceans of Opportunity: Enhancing African-American Participation in the Marine Geosciences (Track 1)

议题1：机遇的海洋：加强非洲裔美国人对海洋地球科学的参与非洲裔美国人和其他少数民族学生在地球科学研究实验室、研究生和本科生课程中的供应远远低于目前科学多样性倡议所设定的需求。潜在的原因包括在年轻时缺乏接触地球科学的机会，在地球科学方面缺乏持续的加强，缺乏参与有意义的研究，以及缺乏指导。“机遇之海”项目将在两个重点城市（佐治亚州的萨凡纳和亚特兰大）解决所有这四个潜在的原因，这两个城市的公立学校系统和以私立大学为代表的大学（萨凡纳州立大学和佐治亚州立大学）中非裔美国人密度高。这一合作是由一所以本科生为主的HBCU （SSU）和一所拥有大量少数民族招生的研究型大学（GSU）之间进行的，该大学在联合海洋学研究所（JOI）的支持下建立了分支机构。“机遇之海”项目的重点是让学生从幼儿园到高中持续参与海洋地球科学。预期的结果是，这些学生后来将出现在大学地球科学课程和研究实验室中。“机遇之海”项目由两条管道组成，将地球科学研究和学术努力从大学和JOI扩展到公立学校系统。在轨道1研究管道中，在南大西洋大学建立了研究训练组（RTG），对附近南大西洋湾（SAB）的碳储存记录和自然资源的可用性进行研究，并通过研究海洋钻探计划（ODP）第164和171条（布莱克岭和布莱克鼻）的沉积物岩心来研究墨西哥湾流的流动历史。为了支持RTG的发展和专注于SAB/墨西哥湾流的研究，每年为一名研究生和一名本科生提供资金。高中学生在萨凡纳-查塔姆学区奥特兰岛教育中心举办的试点海洋科学课程中完成了RTG。在Track 2学术管道中，Oceans of Opportunity正在开发和实施六个交互式地球科学模块中的三个，这些模块基于深海钻探的实际沉积物样本、ODP岩心的复制品，以及创新的课程计划，为所有学术水平的学生扩大这些材料的使用。

Track 1: Oceans of Opportunity: Enhancing African-American Participationin the Marine GeosciencesThe supply of African American and other minority students to research laboratories and to graduate and undergraduate programs in the geosciences is far less than the demand currently set by diversity initiatives in the sciences. Potential causes include lack of exposure to the geosciences at a young age, lack of continuous reinforcement in the geosciences, lack of participation in meaningful research, and lack of mentorship. The Oceans of Opportunity program will address all four of these potential causal factors in two focus cities (Savannah and Atlanta, GA) with high densities of African Americans in the public school systems and in the universities represented by the PIs (Savannah State University [SSU] and Georgia State University [GSU]). This collaboration between a primarily undergraduate HBCU (SSU) and a research university with significant minority enrollment (GSU) with outreach branches to the school systems is anchored by support from the Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI). Oceans of Opportunity focuses on sustained involvement of students in the marine geosciences from kindergarten through high school. Anticipated results are that these students will later appear in university geoscience courses and research laboratories. The Oceans of Opportunity program consists of two pipelines extending geoscience research and academic endeavors from the universities and JOI to the public school systems. In the Track 1 research pipeline, research training groups (RTG) have been established at SSU to carry out research on the record of carbon storage and availability of natural resources in the nearby South Atlantic Bight (SAB), and on the history of Gulf Stream flow through study of sediment cores from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 164 and 171 (Blake Ridge and Blake Nose). In support of RTG development and focused SAB/Gulf Stream research, funding for one graduate student and one undergraduate per year is provided. High school students in a pilot marine science course hosted by the Savannah-Chatham School District's Oatland Island Education Center round out the RTG. In the Track 2 academic pipeline, Oceans of Opportunity is developing and implementing three of six planned interactive geoscience modules based on actual sediment samples from deep ocean drilling, replicas of ODP cores, and innovative lesson plans that expand use of these materials for students of all academic levels.