Workshop: Broadening Participation in the Biodiversisty Sciences: Three Workshops for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

研讨会：扩大生物多样性科学的参与：针对本科生和研究生的三个研讨会

• 批准号: 1358501
• 负责人: Roy Nelson
• 金额: $ 4.8万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1358501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Broadening; Participation; Biodiversisty; Sciences

This action funds three regional workshops for undergraduate and graduate students with the ultimate goal of developing a diversified workforce in fields of biology severely devoid of participants and leaders from under-represented groups. These fields include paleobiology and organismal, evolutionary and environmental biology. These fields taken together can be viewed as the biodiversity research community who are expected to be served by the NSF-funded National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC). Through ADBC, data and images for millions of biological specimens are being made available in electronic format for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public. Lack of participation by scientists from under-represented groups in this activity is the impetus for the workshops to reach students as they make their career choices. The vision for ADBC is a permanent database of digitized information from all biological collections in the U.S. that will lead to new discoveries through research and better understanding and appreciation of biodiversity through improved education and outreach, which will result in improved environmental and economic policies. These workshops promise to broaden participation in this ongoing national research resource.

该行动资助了三个针对本科生和研究生的区域研讨会，其最终目标是在生物学领域培养一支多元化的劳动力队伍，而这支队伍中严重缺乏来自代表性不足群体的参与者和领导者。 这些领域包括古生物学以及有机体、进化和环境生物学。 这些领域可以被视为生物多样性研究界，预计将由 NSF 资助的促进生物多样性收藏数字化国家资源 (ADBC) 提供服务。 通过 ADBC，数以百万计的生物样本的数据和图像以电子格式提供给研究界、政府机构、学生、教育工作者和公众。 来自代表性不足群体的科学家缺乏参与这项活动，是研讨会在学生做出职业选择时影响他们的动力。 ADBC 的愿景是建立一个包含美国所有生物收藏的数字化信息的永久数据库，通过研究带来新发现，并通过改善教育和宣传更好地理解和欣赏生物多样性，从而改善环境和经济政策。 这些研讨会有望扩大对这一正在进行的国家研究资源的参与。