Collaborative Proposal: GP-IMPACT: Ambassadors for STEM Training to Enhance Participation (A-STEP)

合作提案：GP-IMPACT：STEM 培训大使以提高参与度 (A-STEP)

• 批准号: 1801634
• 负责人: Sharon Cooper
• 金额: $ 17.26万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1801634&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; GP; IMPACT; Ambassadors

Geoscientists work on the front lines of issues affecting human communities worldwide, requiring an educated public positioned to help decision-makers understand Earth's complex workings and ensure the safety of its billions of inhabitants. Expanding diversity and inclusivity in the geosciences is critical as decision-making informed by geosciences is a matter of both social justice and critical national need. Recent research on social vulnerability, particularly the vulnerability of communities to extreme natural events based on social factors such as income, race, ethnicity, and housing, finds that communities of color are often among those most vulnerable to these natural events. To address this challenge head-on, the Ambassadors for STEM Training to Enhance Participation (A-STEP) program will provide a transformative seagoing experience to cohorts of students from underrepresented communities who will be equipped with both solid science background and science communication skills. This experience will broaden perspectives on the role of the oceans as a driver of global and environmental change and is expected to empower ambassadors to communicate that change within their own diverse communities. The project will leverage transits of U.S.-operated marine research vessels to train diverse STEM and non-STEM students in science communication. Under the guidance of instructors and science mentors, these students will become effective ambassadors to disseminate exciting and relevant geoscience information across broad audiences. The goals of the A-STEP project are to: (1) Raise the profile of geosciences and geoscience-related careers among under-represented groups nationwide; (2) Produce a series of engaging multimedia products to contribute towards this goal; (3) Draw from scientific ocean drilling and related research to develop educational storyboard modules aimed at K-12 audiences showing the impacts of global change on marine and terrestrial systems; and (4) Contribute to increased diversity of knowledge across geoscience-related fields and career choices by drawing greater attention to the relevance of climate and environmental change for all citizens.To achieve these goals, cohorts of 16 students annually from talented pools of STEM and non-STEM majors will join scientists and science education/communication professionals on short transit cruises on the JOIDES Resolution and UNOLS vessels. Students will learn first-hand in the scientifically-rich environment of an oceanographic cruise the significance of data gleaned from marine sediments, marine organisms, marine pollution, water chemistry, weather and climate patterns, and seafloor dynamics. Subsequently, these newly-minted ambassadors will be deployed across their communities and the nation to transmit the importance and relevance of geoscience information and careers, create innovative products and presentations about their experiences, and make linkages between climate and environmental change and people's daily lives. A-STEP cohorts will become a rich nationwide resource for inspiring the next generation of geoscientists. As ambassadors tasked with promoting STEM knowledge and careers, program participants will bring meaning and value to information, demonstrating how climate and environmental change is affecting all citizens, urban and rural. Citizens with few direct connections to science and scientists, who unfortunately are disproportionately African American, Latino, and Native American communities, are often more vulnerable to misinformation and will especially benefit from interactions with A-STEP students.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.

地球科学家在影响全世界人类社区的问题的前线工作，要求受过教育的公众位置，以帮助决策者了解地球的复杂工作，并确保其数十亿居民的安全。地球科学中的多样性和包容性扩大至关重要，因为地球科学所告知的决策是社会正义和关键国家需求的问题。关于社会脆弱性的最新研究，尤其是社区基于收入，种族，种族和住房等社会因素的极端自然事件的脆弱性，发现有色人种通常是最容易受到这些自然事件的人中的社区。为了正面应对这一挑战，STEM培训的大使加强参与计划（A-Step）计划将为来自代表性不足的社区的学生提供变革性的海上体验，这些社区将配备扎实的科学背景和科学沟通技巧。这种经验将扩大人们对海洋作为全球和环境变化驱动力的作用的看法，并有望使大使能够在自己的多元化社区中传达这种变化。该项目将利用美国运营的海洋研究船的过渡，以训练科学传播中的不同STEM和非茎学生。在讲师和科学导师的指导下，这些学生将成为有效的大使，以在广泛的受众之间传播令人兴奋和相关的地球科学信息。 A步项目的目标是：（1）在全国范围内代表性不足的团体中，提高了地球科学和与地球科学相关的职业的形象； （2）生产一系列引人入胜的多媒体产品，以实现这一目标； （3）从科学海洋钻井和相关研究中得出的，开发了针对K-12受众的教育故事板模块，显示了全球变化对海洋和陆地系统的影响； （4）通过更加关注所有公民的气候和环境变化的相关性，从而促进与地球科学相关领域和职业选择的知识多样性。实现这些目标，每年从才华横溢的STEM和STEM和非茎专业的专业将与科学家和科学教育/传播专业人士一起进行涉及开与解决方案和UNOLS船只的短途运输巡航。学生将在海洋学巡游的科学丰富的环境中进行第一手学习，从海洋沉积物，海洋生物，海洋污染，水化学，天气和气候模式以及海底动态中收集的数据的重要性。随后，这些新成立的大使将在其社区和国家之间部署，以传递地球科学信息和职业的重要性和相关性，创建有关其经验的创新产品和演讲，并在气候和环境变化与人们的日常生活之间建立联系。 A-Step Colets将成为启发下一代地球科学家的全国丰富资源。由于大使负责促进STEM知识和职业，因此计划参与者将为信息带来意义和价值，并证明气候和环境变化如何影响所有城市和农村公民。不幸的是非裔美国人，拉丁美洲裔和美洲原住民社区，与科学和科学家有直接联系的公民通常更容易受到错误信息的影响，并且尤其会从与ASTEP学生的互动中受益。这奖反映了NSF的法定任务，并且已经具有法定任务。使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来支持。