Collaborative Research: COSEE: Ocean Systems-Building Capacity

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。通过持续不断的努力，COSEE-OS确定了未来增长的关键领域，包括：(I)促进在概念上与海洋气候内容相关的科学、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；以及(Iii)建立工具，评估不同社区创建的基于共识的产品的质量。该中心将扩展其为海洋科学界开发灵活、可移植和以用户为中心的软件的成功模式。OS将通过为其他COSEE的科学家举办研讨会来分享这一模式。OS将扩大其地区性倡议，以产生全国影响，重点是农村和内陆受众。此外，与该研究所为扩大参与而建立的新伙伴关系正在改善代表人数不足的少数群体参与OS机会的情况，并将成为大网络的典范。通过支持现有的教育项目，OS将帮助两个规模较小但享有盛誉的研究实验室--芒特荒岛生物实验室和毕格罗海洋科学实验室--实现为K-12教育工作者和“青年科学家”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设能力，磨练个人发展有效的“更广泛影响”(BI)活动的能力。这在一定程度上是通过让海岸科学中心(SSC)和新英格兰水族馆(NEAQ)等非正式教育机构合作伙伴与科学家一起协助开展商业智能活动来实现的。该中心还支持新英格兰海洋科学教育合作(NEOSEC)，这是一个由NEAQ协调的由40多个组织组成的多样化网络，通过培训其教育工作者规划和实施海洋科学家的BI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产品能够及时高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)新正式建立的伙伴关系将新英格兰的海洋科学教育工作者及其学生联合到NERACOOS科学家那里，为科学家提供了增加商业智能的机会。该中心与新英格兰地区海洋赠款推广工作人员共同努力，实地测试新的分析工具，帮助在新英格兰沿海社区就气候变化问题建立共识，这是科学家增加商业智能活动的又一次机会。

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.