CRPA: Antarctic Quest: Racing to Understand a Changing Ocean

罗格斯电影局与帕尔默长期生态研究项目的科学家合作，将制作一个多平台纪录片项目，南极探索：了解不断变化的海洋。 这项将研究人员与公众联系起来的提案将重点关注在西南极半岛（WAP）研究海洋物理学、化学、生物学和生态学的科学家，这是地球上冬季变暖最快的地方。 该项目的目的是促进关于世界海洋和气候变化的科学知识，激发对科学事业的兴趣，以及培养下一代电影专业的学生制作科学纪录片。该项目将阐述帕尔默LTER的研究，以了解气候变化对WAP海洋生态系统的影响，同时让大学生参与到电影制作过程中。 可提供的内容包括一小时的电视纪录片，用于PBS电视广播，通过互动和互联的社交媒体创建的在线“南极探索社区”，为PBS学习媒体网站制作的三个五分钟的教育视频，以及一个数字媒体图书馆，以协助地球科学教育工作者。 制作团队将聘请来自罗格斯大学的20名电影专业学生组成的多元化团队参与该项目的多个阶段和组成部分。 该项目旨在提高公众的环境素养。 该项目将通过说明WAP物理条件的微小变化如何对海洋生态系统以及可能对整个海洋系统产生深远影响，提高人们对世界海洋中正在观察到的变化的认识。 该项目还将突出创新新技术的重要性，这些技术正在彻底改变研究方法，并记录科学合作的重要性，以了解复杂的跨学科问题和在极端环境中工作的挑战。 对该项目的总结性评价将评估该项目在实现其教育目标方面的有效性。 通过向公众传播重要的科学研究成果，同时培训一批下一代科学纪录片制片人，该项目还将促进非正式科学教育领域的能力建设。

The Rutgers Film Bureau in collaboration with the scientists of the LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) project at Palmer will produce a multi-platform documentary project, Antarctic Quest: Racing to Understand a Changing Ocean. This Connecting Researchers to Public Audiences proposal will focus on the scientists who are studying ocean physics, chemistry, biology, and ecology in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), which is the fastest winter warming location on earth. The aim of the project is to promote scientific knowledge about the world's oceans and climate change, inspire interest in scientific careers, as well as train a cadre of next generation film students in the craft of science documentary filmmaking.The project will articulate the research of the Palmer LTER's quest to understand the impact of climate change on the marine ecosystems of the WAP, while involving university students in the filmmaking process. Deliverables include an hour television documentary intended for PBS television broadcast, an online "Antarctic Quest community" created through interactive and interconnected social media, three five-minute educational videos produced for the PBS Learning Media website, and a Digital Media Library to assist Earth science educators. The production team will employ a diverse group of twenty film students from Rutgers University to be involved in the many phases and components of the project. The project is designed to advance the public's environmental literacy. The project will raise awareness of the changes being observed in the world's oceans by illustrating how small changes in the physical conditions in the WAP can have profound impact on marine ecosystems and potentially the entire ocean system. The project will also highlight the significance of innovative new technologies that are revolutionizing research methods as well document the importance of scientific collaboration to understand a complex interdisciplinary problem and the challenges of working in extreme environments. The summative evaluation of the project will assess the effectiveness of the project in meeting its educational goals. By communicating significant scientific research to the public while training a cohort of next generation of science documentary filmmakers, the project will also contribute to capacity-building in the Informal Science Education field.