Incorporating Quantitative Analysis and Digital Database Use in Structure and Tectonics Research and Teaching: Proposal for a Summer School

将定量分析和数字数据库的使用纳入结构和构造研究与教学：关于暑期学校的建议

• 批准号: 2222610
• 负责人: Basil Tikoff
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222610&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Incorporating; Quantitative; Analysis; Digital; Database

Meeting society’s tectonics-related challenges will require that the next generation of professional geologist to be far more quantitatively and computationally literate than past generations. The ever-increasing amount of digital geologic data available via the internet, such as digital elevation models, earthquake data, digital geological data (e.g., StraboSpot digital data system), etc., is transforming the science. Quantitative skills are critical for all aspects of research in the 21st century, as is basic facility in data manipulation. To address this demand, we need to develop high-quality instructional material on quantitative reasoning, computer modeling, data analysis, and digital mapping. The grant supports two seven-day summer schools, to be taught in summer 2024 and 2025. The summer schools will focus on teaching quantitative methods and computing skills in structural geology and tectonics. The target audience are junior faculty, as the instructors aim to “teach the teachers”, although post-doctoral fellows and advanced graduate students will also be included. The same material presented in the summer schools will be subsequently covered in publicly available internet videos, to further disseminate the results. This proposal is aimed at facilitating participation, by an entire scientific community, in the digital revolution taking place in the sciences and throughout society. The principal investigator and associated faculty will offer field courses during two consecutive summers, following a summer of preparation. Summer School Year 1 (2024) will be focused on vector and linear algebra, and Summer School Year 2 (2025) will be focused on spatial statistics. Attendees will learn by doing, rather than by passively listening, with educational activities that involve collection and analysis of their own data at a field location in eastern California. The mobile technologies to be used by the participants are improving efficiencies for field mapping, and will enhance their knowledge of how to maximize the learning of new mobile methods and field strategies that will be the norm for the next generation of professional geoscientists. Two webinars that will run the following summer and videos of the recorded lectures will allow broad dissemination of the materials beyond the participants of the summer school. The grant also funds two graduate students to be teaching assistants for these summer schools, thus facilitating their professional development in an important STEM discipline relevant to societal needs.  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.

应对社会与构造相关的挑战将要求下一代专业地质学家比前几代人具有更高的定量和计算能力。通过互联网获得的数字地质数据不断增加，例如数字高程模型、地震数据、数字地质数据（例如StraboSpot数字数据系统）等正在改变科学，定量技能对于21世纪研究​​的各个方面都至关重要，数据的基本设施也是如此。为了满足这一需求，我们需要开发有关定量推理、计算机建模、数据分析和数字绘图的高质量教学材料。这笔赠款支持将在 2024 年夏季和 2025 年夏季开设两所为期 7 天的暑期学校。学校将重点教授构造地质学和构造学方面的定量方法和计算技能，因为讲师的目标是“教授教师”，但博士后研究员和高级研究生也将包括在内。暑期学校中提出的内容随后将在公开的互联网视频中播出，以进一步传播研究结果，该提案旨在促进整个科学界参与科学界和整个社会的数字革命。相关教师将在连续两个暑假期间提供实地课程，暑期学校第一年（2024年）将重点关注向量和线性代数，第二年暑期学校（2025年）将重点关注空间统计。参加者将通过实践来学习，而不是被动地聆听，通过教育活动来收集和分析他们自己在加利福尼亚州东部的现场位置的数据。参与者将使用的移动技术正在提高现场测绘的效率，并将提高现场测绘的效率。增强他们对如何最大限度地学习新的移动方法和现场策略的知识，这将成为下一代专业地球科学家的常态，将于明年夏天举办的两场网络研讨会和录制的讲座视频将允许材料的广泛传播。超越参与者该补助金还资助两名研究生担任这些暑期学校的助教，从而促进他们在与社会需求相关的重要 STEM 学科中的专业发展。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持。基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。