Environmental Science to Promote Sustainable Urban, Rural and Indigenous Communities

提案编号：0638686主要研究者：Donald leopol86机构：纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院标题：环境科学促进可持续城市，农村和土著社区本项目建立在两个完善的学院/学校合作伙伴关系（ESF在高中双招生计划和ESF科学队）。项目目标是丰富学生的科学学习和参与，加强教师和研究生的专业发展，这些目标源于这个基础和可持续社区的拟议项目主题：以体验和探究为基础的课堂和实地活动；研究员促进学生研究项目和学生科学研究专题讨论会，比较城市、农村和土著社区的环境调查结果。该项目侧重于作为伙伴关系共同基础的调查。教师和同事的专业发展反映了支撑学生活动的专业/学术范式。这些独特的项目方面有可能成为美国公立和私立学院和学校之间合作的典范。项目的最终目标和项目主题“可持续社区”都寻求通过纽约州立大学的研究生教育项目培养能够应对21世纪环境挑战的环境科学领袖。该项目将为研究生提供转型机会，使他们成为具备应对社会当前和未来挑战所需技能的环境科学家。该项目将提高他们作为环境科学传播者和研究科学家的能力，使他们能够通过服务研究（服务学习概念的变体）积极参与并在自己的社区中发挥积极作用。

PROPOSAL #: 0638686PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Donald LeopoldINSTITUTION: SUNY College of Environmental Science and ForestryTITLE: Environmental Science to Promote Sustainable Urban, Rural and Indigenous Communities This project builds upon two well-established college/school partnerships (ESF in the High School dual enrollment program and the ESF Science Corps). Project goals of enriching student science learning and engagement, and enhancing teacher and graduate student professional development emanate from this foundation and the proposed project theme of Sustainable Communities: experiential and inquiry-based classroom and field-based activities; Fellow facilitated student research projects and student science research symposia that compare environmental findings of urban, rural and indigenous communities. This project focuses on inquiry as the common basis for partnerships. Teacher and Fellow professional development reflects a professional/scholarly paradigm that underpins student activities. These unique project aspects have the potential to become a model for partnerships between public and private colleges and school throughout the U.S. Both the project end goals and project theme, Sustainable Communities, seek to produce environmental science leaders who are able to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century through SUNY's graduate education program. This project will entail transformational opportunities for graduate students to become environmental scientists who possess the skills required to meet society's immediate and future challenges. This project will enhance their abilities as environmental science communicators and as research scientists who can actively engage and make a positive difference in their own communities through Service-Research a variant of the Service-Learning concept.