Using Continental Scale Data In Undergraduate Ecology Education Phase 1Workshop

国家生态观测站网络（氖）将为本科教育界提供一个独特的机会，在大的时空尺度上参与和教授生态学。氖将极大地扩大大陆规模研究、教育和培训的潜力和机会。氖数据将为小型本科院校的学生提供前所未有的机会，使他们能够使用生态研究前沿的真实的数据，无论是作为课堂练习还是通过独立的研究项目。相关的网络基础设施将提供工具，使这种大规模的工作伙伴关系不仅成为可能，而且切实可行。该奖项将为美国生态学会提供资金，用于规划将氖引入本科教育社区的活动。欧空局将举办一次范围界定讲习班，使本科教育工作者聚集一堂，探讨利用大量大陆尺度数据的教学方法。有关土地利用变化和气候变化的数据将提供给教师进行讨论和分析。本科教育工作者将接受指导，学生积极的方法，将刺激学生参与科学过程中，使用真实的数据，即使在现场工作是不可行的情况下。额外的规划将发生参与教师作为导师本科生，因为他们开发（一）在大陆范围内的学生研究项目的想法和（B）的方式，本科生可以合作推进这些研究项目，并产生新的研究思路。该项目为大学教育工作者利用氖将为生态教育带来的新机遇和挑战铺平了道路。未来的项目增长出研讨会预计将纳入技术功能，工具和技能，有利于数据收集和分析和想法，将建立协作教学，学习和本科生参与研究的基础在大陆范围内。此外，随着SEEDS教师和学生的参与，预计未来的项目将吸引生态科学中代表性不足的学生的高度参与。

The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) will provide a unique opportunity for the undergraduate education community to participate in and teach ecology at large spatial and temporal scales. NEON will enormously expand the potential and the opportunities for continental-scale research, education and training. The NEON data will offer an unprecedented opportunity for students at small undergraduate institutions to work with real data from the forefront of ecological research either as classroom exercises or through independent research projects. The associated cyberinfrastructure will provide the tools that make such large-scale working partnerships not only possible, but practical. This award will provide funds to the Ecological Society of America for planning activities to introduce NEON to the undergraduate education community. ESA will conduct a scoping workshop to bring together undergraduate educators to explore approaches to teaching that will make use of large volumes of continental-scale data. Data on land use change and climate change will be made available to faculty for discussion and analysis. Undergraduate educators will receive guidance on student-active methods that will stimulate student participation in the scientific process, using real data, even in situations where fieldwork is not feasible. Additional planning will occur to engage the faculty participating in as mentors to undergraduate students as they develop (a) ideas for student research projects on a continental scale and (b) ways in which undergraduate students can collaborate to advance these research projects and generate new research ideas. This project paves the way for college educators to take advantage of the new opportunities and challenges that NEON will present for ecology education. Future projects growing out of the workshop are expected to incorporate technological features, tools, and skills useful in facilitating data collection and analysis and ideas that will establish the foundations for collaborative teaching, learning and undergraduate involvement in research on a continental scale. Further, with SEEDS faculty and students involved, it is anticipated that future projects will engage a high degree of participation from underrepresented students in the ecological sciences.