REU Site: Beyond Basic Science – Connecting Climate to Communities

REU 网站：超越基础科学 — 将气候与社区联系起来

• 批准号: 2051024
• 负责人: Joshua Fisher
• 金额: $ 33.86万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2051024&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Beyond; Basic; Science

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 Beyond Basic Science REU program will immerse participants in the transdisciplinary science being done at the Earth Institute (EI) of Columbia University. Our overarching goals include: 1) enhancing participant interest and experience in participatory action research in climate science, 2) building confidence and competence in research, 3) gaining fluency and insights into scientific processes and practices, 4) connecting participants to layered mentoring structures, and 5) providing learners with opportunities for engagement with stakeholders on real-world challenges. This project will embed participants in the scientific process and provide them with a window into research in individual and team settings. In these experiences, participants will have the latitude that is appropriate to their level of understanding in order to gain comfort with the research process. The core foundations of each research project are grounded in basic science that will introduce participants to the scientific process. Additionally, all projects will have a strong practice and participatory aspect that involves a range of partners, which will introduce participants to how mentors design and conduct their research in order to develop shared knowledge that is practical and can be used by stakeholders in decision and policy-making processes.This 3-year project will involve 10-week research experiences annually that will embed students and educators in the process and application of transdisciplinary science. The Beyond Basic Science REU program demonstrates a powerful strategy for how organizations such as the Earth Institute can transform the relationship between science and the public, by ensuring that the knowledge we produce through our research is jointly created, shared, and disseminated in a way that has meaningful impacts on the people and communities that climate change is going to impact the most. The Beyond Basic Science REU site will provide opportunities for undergraduate students and educators in transdisciplinary research rooted in climate science and participatory action. The activities proposed in this project are strategically aligned with NSF’s goals of broader impacts and supports a diverse group of participants in immersive research experiences. The project framework supports participants to engage in team learning around a meaningful project, participate in professional development activities beyond direct research, and build learning and professional relationships through layered mentoring in a world-renowned research environment. The pool of students targeted by this program (i.e., community colleges and state schools) are substantially more likely to be first generation college students and to identify as underrepresented minorities in STEM. The project will likewise produce a cohort of scientists and educators trained in participatory research approaches to science that integrate basic research methods with meaningful stakeholder participation. Our REU site has an opportunity to demonstrate that research programs grounded in evidence-based practices that provide strong educational and professional infrastructures for learners have an important role to play in bringing diversity into our research communities and promoting inclusive excellence.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。 BEADEAD SCICURE REU计划将使参与者沉浸于哥伦比亚大学地球研究所（EI）的跨学科科学中。我们的总体目标包括：1）增强气候科学参与式行动研究中的参与兴趣和经验，2）在研究中建立信心和能力，3）获得流利的和对科学过程和实践的见解，4）4）将参与者与分层的心理结构联系起来，以及5）5）为学习者提供与现实世界的互动机会。该项目将使参与者纳入科学过程，并为他们提供个人和团队设置研究的窗口。在这些经验中，参与者将拥有适合于他们的理解水平的纬度，以便对研究过程感到舒适。每个研究项目的核心基础都基于基础科学，将向参与者介绍科学过程。 Additionally, all projects will have a strong practice and participation aspect that involves a range of partners, which will introduce participants to how mentors design and conduct their research in order to develop shared Knowledge that is practical and can be used by stakeholders in decision and policy-making processes.This 3-year project will involve 10-week research experiences annually that will embed students and educators in the process and application of transdisciplinary science.超基础科学REU计划通过确保我们通过研究的知识能够以对气候变化会影响最大的人们产生有意义的影响的方式来确保我们通过我们的研究共同创造，共享和传播我们通过研究所产生的知识来改变科学与公众之间的关系的有力策略。 BEASTR BASIC SCICURE REU网站将为植根于气候科学和参与行动的跨学科研究的本科生和教育者提供机会。该项目中提出的活动在战略上与NSF具有更广泛影响的目标保持一致，并支持一群潜水员的沉浸式研究经验。该项目框架支持参与者围绕一个有意义的项目进行团队学习，参与直接研究以外的专业发展活动，并通过在世界知名的研究环境中进行分层心理化来建立学习和专业关系。该计划目标（即社区学院和州立学校）的学生库更可能是第一代大学生，并确定STEM中代表性不足的少数群体。该项目同样将生产一系列科学家和教育者，接受了参与研究方法的培训，这些方法将基础研究方法与有意义的利益相关者参与整合。我们的REU网站有机会证明基于证据的实践的研究计划为学习者提供强大的教育和专业基础设施，在将多样性带入我们的研究社区并促进包容性卓越方面起着重要作用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过该基金会的知识绩效和广泛的criperia crigitia criperia criperia crighitia revalluation被认为是通过评估来获得的珍贵支持。