NSF INCLUDES: Collaborative Proposal: Coastal Almanac

NSF 包括： 合作提案：海岸年鉴

• 批准号: 1649164
• 负责人: Marco Hatch
• 金额: $ 6.79万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649164&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Collaborative; Proposal; Coastal

One common barrier to STEM engagement by underserved and underrepresented communities is a feeling of disconnection from mainstream science. This project will involve citizen scientist in the collection, mapping, and interpretation of data from their local area with an eye to increasing STEM engagement in underrepresented communities. The idea behind this is that science needs to start at home, and be both accessible and inclusive. To facilitate this increased participation, the project will develop a network of stakeholders with interests in the science of coastal environments. Stakeholders will include members of coastal communities, academic and agency scientists, and citizen science groups, who will collectively and collaboratively create a web-based system to collect and view the collected and analyzed environmental information. Broader impacts include addressing the STEM barriers to those who reside in the coastal environment but who are underrepresented in STEM education, vocations and policy-making. These include tribal communities (racial and ethnic inclusion), fishery communities (inclusion of communities of practice), and rural communities without direct access to colleges or universities.This project will create a physical, a social, and a virtual, environment where all participants have an equal footing in the processes of "doing science" - the Coastal Almanac. The Almanac is simultaneously a network of individuals and organizations, and a web-based repository of coastal data collected through the auspices of the network. During the testing phase, the researchers will implement the "rules of engagement" through multiple interaction pathways in the growing Coastal Almanac network: increases in rigorous citizen science, development of specific community-scientist partnerships to collect and/or use Almanac data, development of K-12 programs to collect and/or use Almanac data. The proposed work will significantly scale up citizen science and community-based science programs on the West Coast, broadening participation by targeting members of coastal communities with limited access to mainstream science, including participants from non-STEM vocations, and Native Americans. The innovation of the Coastal Almanac is in allowing the process of deepening involvement in science, and through that process increasing agency of community members to be bona fide members of the science team, to evolve organically, in the manner dictated by community members and the situation, rather than a priori by the project team and mainstream science. The project has the potential in the long-term to increase participation in marine science education, workforce, and policy-making by underrepresented groups resident in the coastal environment. Contributions by project citizen scientists will also provide valuable data to mainstream science and to resource management efforts.

服务不足和代表性不足的社区的STEM参与的一个常见障碍是与主流科学的脱节。该项目将涉及公民科学家参与其当地数据的收藏，映射和解释，以期在代表性不足的社区中增加STEM的参与度。背后的想法是，科学需要从家里开始，既可以访问又包容。 为了促进这种增加的参与，该项目将在沿海环境科学上建立一个利益相关者网络。 利益相关者将包括沿海社区，学术和代理科学家以及公民科学小组的成员，他们将共同创建基于网络的系统，以收集和查看收集和分析的环境信息。 更广泛的影响包括解决居住在沿海环境中但在STEM教育，职业和政策制定中的人数不足的人的STEM障碍。其中包括部落社区（种族和种族包容性），渔业社区（包括实践社区）以及无直接进入大学或大学的农村社区。该项目将创建一个身体，社交和虚拟的环境，所有参与者在“做科学”的过程中都具有平等的态度。该年历同时是个人和组织的网络，以及通过网络主持人收集的基于网络的沿海数据存储库。在测试阶段，研究人员将通过不断增长的沿海年鉴网络中的多种互动途径实施“参与规则”：严格的公民科学的增加，开发特定的社区 - 科学家合作伙伴关系，以收集和/或使用年鉴，开发K-112计划，以收集和/或使用年鉴数据。 拟议的工作将大大扩展西海岸的公民科学和基于社区的科学计划，并通过针对沿海社区成员获得主流科学的访问权限，包括非茎职业的参与者和美洲原住民。 沿海年鉴的创新在于允许加深参与科学的过程，并且通过这一过程，社区成员的增加代理是科学团队的真正成员，以社区成员和处境的方式有机地发展，而不是项目团队和主流科学的先验方式。该项目长期有潜力增加沿海环境中代表性不足的团体参与海洋科学教育，劳动力和决策。项目公民科学家的贡献还将为主流科学和资源管理工作提供宝贵的数据。