REU/RET Site: Preparing the Next Generation of Scholars through Community Geographic Information Systems and Citizen Science

REU/RET 网站：通过社区地理信息系统和公民科学培养下一代学者

• 批准号: 1950227
• 负责人: Timothy Hawthorne
• 金额: $ 46.6万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950227&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; RET; Site; Preparing; Next

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. It has both scientific and societal benefits in addition to integrating research and education. The REU/RET Site at University of Central Florida, in partnership with George Mason University and the Smithsonian Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems Program (CCRE), provides intensive, community-based research experiences for 24 undergraduate students and 6 K-12 educators with a focus on developing new researchers and educators from underrepresented groups. The REU/RET Site supports the NSF mission by promoting new discoveries in interdisciplinary science, while supporting 30 students and teachers over the span of three project years. The REU/RET Site also supports the NSF mission of strengthening U.S. science and national research and education priorities by having students and K-12 teachers participate in interdisciplinary research teams, increasing their understanding of research ethics, and sharing their research results with broad audiences through diverse modes of scientific communication. REU/RET participants work with faculty mentors, geospatial technology industry leaders, non-profits, and community members. The REU/RET Site provides research methods training and advanced fieldwork, and works with participants to share results through co-authored publications, conference co-presentations, social media, and industry visits. The REU/RET Site contributes to NSF’s mission of broadening participation in science and industry by recruiting 75% of its participants from underrepresented groups (e.g. women, minorities, veterans, persons with disabilities, first-generation college students).Through the transformative seven-week research program and post-program dissemination of results, the REU/RET Site will: 1) critically assess the opportunities for and challenges to community-based models for international undergraduate research training, especially important as U.S. higher education institutions and industry push for more globally-minded thinkers to increase U.S. competitiveness around the world; 2) engage 24 student researchers (in addition to 6 pre-service or in-service teachers) in community-based international fieldwork focused on GIS and related geospatial research techniques to examine social and environmental disparities; and 3) broadly share conceptual and methodological frameworks for international community GIS and citizen science research and education efforts. The REU/RET Site has several broader societal impacts to support U.S. and NSF priorities. It serves as the first international research training program for students and K-12 teachers focused explicitly on interdisciplinary, team-based inquiry using community GIS and citizen science methods. REU/RET participants will develop an understanding of and appreciation for community-based geographic and GIS-based inquiry in U.S. and international settings through team-based science, fostering both scientific and technical skills and other essential career skills like communication, problem solving, and adaptability. Knowledge gained by participants will lead to a transformative experience helping students and K-12 teachers develop into more globally aware, ethical researchers that can support U.S. interests across the globe, both in academic and non-academic environments. With the added RET component, additional educational opportunities for K-12 educators and K-12 students will be developed allowing for stronger exposure to geospatial technologies in U.S. classrooms and through open access, online educational materials created by the REU/RET Site.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.

该项目是从SBE董事会的本科生（REU）网站计划的研究经验中资助的。除了整合研究和教育之外，它还具有科学和社会利益。与乔治·梅森大学（George Mason University）和史密森尼加勒比珊瑚礁生态系统计划（CCRE）合作的REU/RET网站与24名本科生和6名K-12教育者提供了密集的，基于社区的研究经验，专注于从事未成年人群的新研究人员和教育者。 REU/RET网站通过促进跨学科科学的新发现来支持NSF任务，同时在三个项目中为30名学生和老师提供支持。 REU/RET网站还通过让学生和K-12教师参加跨学科研究团队，增强对研究伦理的理解，并通过科学沟通的潜水模式与广泛的受众分享研究成果，从而支持NSF的任务，以加强美国科学和国家研究和教育优先事项。 REU/RET参与者与教师导师，地理空间技术行业领导者，非营利组织和社区成员合作。 REU/RET网站提供研究方法培训和高级现场工作，并与参与者合作，通过共同撰写的出版物，会议共同陈述，社交媒体和行业访问来分享结果。 REU/RET网站通过招募75％的参与者从代表性不足的群体（例如妇女，少数群体，退伍军人，残疾人，第一年级大学生）招募75％的参与者来促进NSF扩大参与科学和行业的使命。通过转型的七周研究计划和挑战，REU/RETICS CRIT挑战：1）本科研究培训，尤其重要，因为美国高等教育机构和行业推动了更多的全球思想家，以提高美国在全球范围内的竞争力； 2）与24名学生研究人员（除6个职业前或在职教师之外）参与基于社区的国际现场工作，该领域专注于GIS和相关的地理空间研究技术，以检查社会和环境差异； 3）为国际社会GIS和公民科学研究和教育工作大致分享概念和方法论框架。 REU/RET网站具有更广泛的社会影响，以支持美国和NSF的优先事项。它是针对学生和K-12教师的第一个国际研究培训计划，专注于使用社区GIS和公民科学方法的跨学科，基于团队的询问。 REU/RET参与者将通过基于团队的科学在美国和国际环境中对基于社区的地理和基于GIS的询问的理解和欣赏，从而培养科学和技术技能以及其他基本的职业技能，例如沟通，解决问题和适应性。参与者获得的知识将带来一种变革性的经验，可以帮助学生和K-12教师发展成为更具全球性的道德研究人员，这些研究人员可以在学术和非学术环境中支持全球的美国利益。随着RET组件的增加，将开发为K-12教育者和K-12学生提供的其他教育机会，从而可以在美国课堂上和通过开放访问权限，REU/RET网站创建的在线教育材料中更强大的地理空间技术，这反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的Merit和Broadia和Broadia和Broadia和Broadia的评估来反映出NSF的法定任务，并具有值得的支持。

项目成果

Designing inclusive community-based geography research experiences across the spectrum of ability

跨能力范围设计包容性的、基于社区的地理研究体验

• DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2021.1928026
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Geography in Higher Education
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Atchison, Christopher L.;Hawthorne, Timothy L.;Torres, Hannah R.;Visaggi, Christy C.;Bencivenga, Patricia;Haralson, Joshua;Relyea, Darby;Jarrett, Olga S.
• 通讯作者: Jarrett, Olga S.