Collaborative Research: COSEE: Ocean Systems - Building Capacity Through Collaboration

该奖项为海洋科学教育卓越中心-海洋系统（COSEE-OS）提供了新的资金。通过持续的努力，COSEE-OS已经确定了未来增长的关键领域，包括：(i)促进与海洋气候内容概念相关的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）资源的创建；（ii）利用网络基础设施扩大海洋科学家的影响；（三）建立工具，以评估由不同社区创造的基于共识的产品的质量。该中心将扩展其为海洋科学界创建灵活、可转让和以用户为中心的软件的成功模式。OS将通过为其他COSEE的科学家举办的研讨会分享这一模型。OS将扩大其区域性倡议，以产生全国性影响，重点关注农村和内陆受众。此外，与扩大参与研究所的新伙伴关系正在改善代表性不足的少数群体对操作系统机会的参与，并将成为更大网络的典范。通过支持现有的教育项目，OS将帮助两个小而有声望的研究实验室——Mount Desert Island生物实验室和Bigelow海洋科学实验室——实现他们为K-12教育工作者和“年轻科学家”培训提供有效研究经验的目标。该中心的目标是在全国范围内建立能力，磨练个人开展有效的“广泛影响”活动的能力。这在一定程度上是通过与非正式教育机构合作伙伴（如海岸科学中心（SSC）和新英格兰水族馆（NEAq））合作来实现的，以帮助与科学家一起开展BI活动。该中心还支持新英格兰海洋科学教育合作组织（NEOSEC），这是一个由NEAq协调的40多个组织组成的多元化网络，通过培训其教育工作者为海洋科学家规划和实施商业智能活动来建设区域能力。这确保了当前海洋科学研究的内容和成果能够及时有效地接触到广泛的受众。与东北地区海岸和海洋观测系统协会（NERACOOS）的新正式合作伙伴关系将新英格兰海洋科学教育工作者及其学生与NERACOOS科学家联合起来，为科学家提供了增加BI的机会。该中心与新英格兰地区海洋拨款扩展工作人员共同努力，实地测试有助于在新英格兰沿海社区建立气候变化问题共识的新分析工具，这是科学家增加BI活动的另一个机会。

This award provides renewed funding for the Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Ocean Systems (COSEE-OS). Through its ongoing efforts, COSEE-OS has identified key areas for future growth, including: (i) facilitating the creation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) resources that are conceptually linked to ocean-climate content; (ii) scaling up ocean scientists' impacts by taking advantage of networking infrastructure; and (iii) building tools to assess the quality of consensus-based products created by diverse communities. The Center will expand its successful model of creating software that is flexible, transferrable, and user focused for the ocean science community. OS will share this model via workshops for scientists at other COSEE's. OS will scale up its regional initiatives to have national impact, with a focus on rural and inland audiences. In addition, a new partnership with the Institute for Broadening Participation is improving engagement of underrepresented minorities in OS opportunities, and will serve as a model for the greater Network. By supporting existing educational programs, OS will assist two small, but prestigious, research laboratories -- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences -- in meeting their goal of providing effective research experiences for K-12 educators and "young scientists" in training. The Center's goal is to build Capacity nationwide, honing individuals' abilities to develop effective "Broader Impacts" (BI) activities. This is accomplished, in part, by engaging informal education institution partners such as Seacoast Science Center (SSC) and New England Aquarium (NEAq) to aid in the development of BI activities with scientists. The Center also supports the New England Ocean Sciences Education Collaborative (NEOSEC), a diverse network of over 40 organizations coordinated by NEAq, to build regional capacity by training its educators in planning and implementing BI activities for ocean scientists. This ensures that the content and products of current ocean science research can efficiently reach a broad audience in a timely fashion. A newly formalized partnership with the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) unites the New England cadre of ocean science educators and their students to the NERACOOS scientists, providing opportunities to increase the BI for scientists. The Center's joint efforts with New England regional Sea Grant Extension staff to field test new analytical tools that aid consensus building about climate change issues in New England coastal communities is another opportunity for scientists to increase their BI activities.