Polar (NSF 15-114): Research Opportunities in the Arctic for Minorities (ROAM2): Elucidating drivers of Arctic ecosystem responses to global change.

很少有本科课程的设计能够充分培养学生的数据分析技能，尤其是在北极科学方面。为了解决学生培训和全球变化科学方面的紧迫挑战和需求，该项目的总体目标是将这所西班牙裔机构的学生培养成为具有跨学科合作、团队科学和科学交流能力的领先数据专业人员。该项目将集中于在基于课程的本科研究经验（CUREs）中注入定量技能发展，跨越本科课程，解决北极生态系统生态学中的数据密集型挑战。利用阿拉斯加最北端巴罗地区的传统和最近的北极数据资源，结合实地经验和实验室操作，pi将协调真实的合作研究经验，学生将开发研究问题，收集，分析和综合数据，并在科学有效的场所就尚未调查的主题交流结果。该提案建立在ppi先前的成功基础上，包括国际极地年资助的一个项目，该项目将服务不足的学生带到南极洲（PLR 0632360），本科生网络基础设施培训（DUE 0733055）和GK-12项目（DGE 0947993）的资助。将设计一系列新颖的垂直整合的cure，它们是：i)在低年级和高年级课程中实施；B)侧重于数据密集型生态系统生态学领域；c)以旨在增强学生认知和非认知属性的方式构建。北极生态学家和一位教育研究专家将合作设计cure，并完成对拟议活动的教育影响的正式评估。在整个课程中实施的教程以及基于网络的资源将促进技能发展和知识和数据的转移。近200名学生将直接受到该计划的影响，这将有助于加强学生，特别是西班牙裔学生进入特tep研究生课程的渠道。现有存档的北极数据资源将应用于培训环境；将采用标准化格式和最佳做法收集、整合、分析、发布和存档新的补充数据。通过对CUREnet和其他在线媒体的捐助，ppi还将支持其他机构采用。报告结果将在地方到全国范围内进行，并发表在同行评议的期刊上，在埃尔帕索和巴罗的额外推广活动也将影响到高中和社区大学的学生。

Few undergraduate programs appear to be adequately designed to prepare students with data analysis skills, especially as these pertain to Arctic Science. In order to address urgent challenges and needs in both student training and global-change science, the overarching goal of this project is to train students at this Hispanic-serving institution to be leading data professionals capable in cross-disciplinary collaboration, team science, and scientific communication. The program will center on the infusion of quantitative skills development in course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) spanning an undergraduate curriculum that addresses data intensive challenges in Arctic ecosystem ecology. Using legacy and recent Arctic data resources for the Barrow area in northernmost Alaska, together with field experiences and lab-based manipulations, the PIs will orchestrate authentic, collaborative research experiences, where students will develop research questions, collect, analyze, and synthesize data, and communicate results in scientifically valid venues on topics that have yet to be investigated. This proposal builds on the PIs prior success with both International Polar Year funding for a program that took underserved students to Antarctica (PLR 0632360), funding for undergraduate cyberinfrastructure training (DUE 0733055), and funding for a GK-12 program (DGE 0947993). A series of novel and vertically integrated CUREs will be designed that are: i) implemented in both lower and upper-division courses; b) focused in the area of data-intensive ecosystem ecology; and c) constructed in a manner intended to enhance students' cognitive and non-cognitive attributes. Arctic ecologists and a specialist in education research will collaborate to design the CUREs and complete a formal evaluation of the educational impact of the proposed activities. Tutorials implemented across the curriculum, as well as web-based resources, will facilitate skills development and transfer of knowledge and data. Nearly 200 students will be impacted directly by this program, which will serve to reinforce a pipeline of students, especially Hispanic students, into UTEP graduate programs. Existing archived Arctic data resources will be applied in a training environment; new complementary data will be collected, integrated, analyzed, published and archived using standardized format and best practice. Through contributions to CUREnet and other online media, the PIs will also support adoption by other institutions. Presentations of results will occur at local to national scales and be published in peer-reviewed journals, and additional outreach activities in El Paso and Barrow will also impact high school and community college students.