Field Station and Environmental Learning Center Strategic Planning and Charrette

该奖项支持球州立大学野外站和环境教育中心（FSEEC）的战略规划工作。该规划项目将产生短期（五年）和长期总体规划，以及FSEEC-LandLab设施建设的特定场地总体规划。 规划过程将通过实地访问、访谈和重点讲习班，侧重于外地工作站的最佳做法。 将举办一个总体规划讲习班，将利益攸关方和在这方面有经验的外部专家聚集在一起，举行会议。 FSEEC总体计划预计将包括资源管理、研究、教育和外联活动。 FSEEC土地实验室设施将容纳FSEEC和鲍尔州立大学土地设计研究所的研究和教育项目。FSEEC总体规划的制定将加强对自然和人类主导的生态系统之间的功能和相互作用的科学探究。 这一规划工作将受益于研究人员和景观设计师之间的跨学科合作，并有望成为外地站设施规划的典范。 规划工作及其实施的结果将是改善现有的FSEEC教育计划，为科学代表性不足的群体，包括现有的NSF GK-12计划，重点是在城市环境中的风险学生的STEM问题。

This award supports a strategic planning effort for the Ball State University Field Station and Environmental Education Center (FSEEC) This planning project will produce a short term (five-year) and a long term master plan, and a site-specific master plan for the construction of the FSEEC-LandLab facility. The planning process will focus on the best practices of field stations through site visits, interviews and focused workshops. A master planning workshop will bring together stakeholders and outside specialists with experience in such matters together in a charrette format. The FSEEC master plan is expected to encompass the resource management, research, education and outreach activities. The FSEEC-LandLab facility will house the research and educational programs of FSEEC and the Ball State University Land Design Institute. The development of a master plan for FSEEC will enhance scientific inquiry into the functions and interactions between natural and human dominated ecosystems. This planning effort will benefit from an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers and landscape designers, and is expected to serve as a model for field station facility planning. The result of the planning effort and its implementation will be to improve existing FSEEC educational programs for underrepresented groups in science, including an existing NSF GK-12 program that focuses on STEM issues for at-risk students in the urban environment.