GP-UP: Geosciences Students Excelling in Real, Vital Investigations with Community Engagement (GEO SERVICE)

该项目由刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）计划共同资助。为了满足教育和劳动力需求，地球科学学生擅长真实的，社区参与的重要调查（GEO服务）计划旨在通过让学生参与职业相关的，以社区为中心的课外服务学习经验，增加路易斯安那大学拉斐特分校攻读地球科学专业的本科生数量。许多关键问题影响了地球科学专业的招聘，包括学生在高中期间缺乏接触地球科学职业相关的经验和途径。GEO SERVICE将为高中生制定一个桥梁计划，让他们参与早期的服务学习体验，以解决与学生及其社区和地区相关的问题。项目活动涉及访问和分析各种数据集，用于回答有关影响当地和区域社区的自然和/或人为变化的具体问题，例如路易斯安那州发生的沿海湿地损失和洪水。该项目旨在专注于本科研究经验，导致参与和持续的学生对STEM职业的兴趣。本科生和研究生，大学教师和社区导师之间的合作促进了STEM职业所需技能的发展。GEO SERVICE项目旨在满足未来STEM和地球科学劳动力的需求。GEO SERVICE计划的目标是增加和保留攻读地球科学专业的本科生数量。GEO SERVICE计划将本科生与教师，研究生和社区导师合作，其中包括学习与应对环境挑战相关的地球科学内容，同时参与广泛指导，以研究为基础，以社区为重点的服务学习项目（SLP）。每个SLP将包括研究，数据收集和解决问题，然后为地球艺术展览准备最终报告和视觉演示。上述这些活动将满足以下目标：1）招募和维持大学预科和大学早期的学生进入本科地球科学课程。2)建立新的项目，将本科生的研究经验与以社区为中心的服务学习相结合，为地球科学学生的协作群体，由教师，同行和专业人士指导。3)通过解决现实世界问题的应用研究展示职业机会。4)为学生提供设计项目，分析数据，使用复杂的职业相关的地理空间技术，并准备有效的演示文稿的经验。5)提高不同社区对地球科学信息的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is jointly funded by the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program. In response to educational and workforce needs, the Geosciences Students Excelling in Real, Vital Investigations with Community Engagement (GEO SERVICE) program aims to increase the number of undergraduates pursuing a geoscience major at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette by engaging students in career-relevant, community-focused, extracurricular service- learning experiences. Many key issues affect the recruiting of geoscience majors, including a lack of student exposure during high school to geoscience-career related experiences and pathways. GEO SERVICE will develop a bridge program for high school students to engage into early service-learning experiences designed to address questions relevant to the students as well as to their communities and regions. The project activities involve accessing and analyzing diverse datasets applied to answer specific questions about natural and/or human induced changes that affect local and regional communities, such as coastal wetland loss and flooding occurring in Louisiana. The project is designed to focus on undergraduate research experiences, leading to engagement and sustained student interest in STEM careers. The collaboration between undergraduate and graduate students, University faculty, and community mentors promotes the development of skills needed in STEM careers.The GEO SERVICE project is an effort to address the future STEM and geosciences workforce needs. The goal of the GEO SERVICE program is to increase and retain the number of undergraduates pursuing a geoscience major. The GEO SERVICE program partners undergraduate students with faculty, graduate students, and community mentors in a program that includes learning geosciences content relevant to addressing environmental challenges, while engaged in broadly mentored, research-based, community-focused Service Learning Projects (SLPs). Each SLP will comprise research, data gathering, and problem solving, followed by preparation of final reports and visual presentations for an Earth as Art exhibition. These activities described above will meet the following objectives: 1) Recruit and sustain pre-college and early college students into undergraduate geoscience programs. 2) Establish new projects that integrate undergraduate research experiences with community-focused service learning for collaborative cohorts of geoscience students, with mentoring by faculty, peers, and professionals. 3) Demonstrate career opportunities through applied research addressing real-world problems. 4) Provide students with experience designing projects, analyzing data, using sophisticated career-relevant geospatial technology, and preparing effective presentations. 5) Improve the understanding of geosciences information among diverse communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.