Collaborative Research: Ocean Tracks: Investigating Marine Migrations in a Changing Ocean

由教育发展中心公司（EDC）和斯坦福大学霍普金斯海洋站合作的“海洋轨迹：在变化的海洋中调查海洋迁徙”项目，正在开发一种独特的模式，使高中生能够通过交互式网络界面使用真实的科学数据。Ocean Tracks正在开发和课堂测试强大的基于网络的可视化和分析工具，这些工具来源于最新的知识，关于如何用数据支持学生的探究。一个互动网站提供了近实时和档案数据的访问，这些数据来自电子标记的海洋动物、漂流浮标和地球轨道卫星，这些数据是通过全球远洋捕食者标记、美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）的“漂流者收养计划”和MY NASA数据计划收集的。强大的基于网络的可视化和分析工具，源自最先进的关于如何支持学生探究数据的知识，允许学生学习和应用生态学，生物学，环境科学，地球科学，海洋学和气候科学的核心概念。与此同时，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）、美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）和美国国家航空航天局（NASA）等机构正在对复杂的网络基础设施（CI）进行重大投资，这将使科学家和教育工作者能够通过互联网获得科学数据的宝库；通过让学生参与真正的科学工作，这些数据有巨大的潜力来改变教学和学习。然而，修改专家数据接口以供学生使用并支持学生使用数据进行科学探究是重大挑战。现在迫切需要像“海洋轨迹”这样的模型程序，它可以实例化有经验的教育者和教育研究者、实践科学家和技术专家的最佳知识。Ocean Tracks利用新兴CI的前景，让高中生参与使用数据可视化工具来研究海洋动物（如鲨鱼、金枪鱼、海龟、海豹和海鸟）的运动模式和栖息地使用与海洋变量（如海面温度、叶绿素、洋流速度和方向）的关系。从海洋轨道中获得的知识将具有广泛的影响，因为它可以作为设计和实施项目的模型，在这些项目中，学生、教师和科学家合作进行科学研究，即使在远离海洋和科学家实验室的教室里也是如此。

Ocean Tracks: Investigating Marine Migrations in a Changing Ocean, a collaboration between Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), and Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, is developing a unique model of how to enable high school students to use authentic scientific data via an interactive Web-interface. Ocean Tracks is developing and classroom testing powerful Web-based visualization and analysis tools derived from state-of-the-art knowledge about how to support student inquiry with data. An interactive website provides access to near-real-time and archival data from electronically tagged marine animals, drifting buoys, and Earth-orbiting satellites collected through the Global Tagging of Pelagic Predators, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Adopt-a-Drifter, and MY NASA DATA programs. Powerful Web-based visualization and analysis tools, derived from state-of-the-art knowledge about how to support student inquiry with data, allow students to learn and apply core concepts in ecology, biology, environmental science, earth science, oceanography, and climate science.Concurrently, agencies such as the NSF, NOAA, and NASA are making significant investments in sophisticated cyberinfrastructures (CI) that will make available a treasure trove of scientific data via the Internet to scientists and educators; there is tremendous potential for this data to transform teaching and learning by engaging students in authentic scientific work. However, modifying expert-data interfaces for use by students and supporting students as they engage in scientific inquiry with data are significant challenges. There is an urgent need for model programs such as Ocean Tracks that instantiate the best knowledge of experienced educators and education researchers, practicing scientists, and technology experts. Ocean Tracks harnesses the promise of emerging CI to engage high school students in the use of data visualization tools to study the movement patterns and habitat usage of marine animals (e.g., sharks, tunas, turtles, seals, and seabirds) in relation to oceanographic variables (e.g., sea surface temperature, chlorophyll, and current speed and direction). The knowledge gained from Ocean Tracks will have broad impact by serving as a model for designing and implementing projects in which students, teachers, and scientists collaborate to conduct scientific research, even in classrooms that are far from the ocean and scientists' laboratories.