RAPID: Reimagining a collaborative future: engaging community with the Andrews Forest Research Program

RAPID：重新构想协作未来：让社区参与安德鲁斯森林研究计划

• 批准号: 2409274
• 负责人: Kari O'Connell
• 金额: $ 19.84万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2409274&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Reimagining; collaborative; future; engaging

The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest is an internationally known center for forest and stream ecosystem research in central Oregon and is part of multiple research networks, including the Long-Term Ecological Research network where scientists and NSF have invested in long-term research programs about environmental change. In the fall of 2023, a major wildfire burned over much of this forest, threatening adjacent communities and destroying existing research plans and projects. The scientific community must immediately reimagine their research at the same time that the local community has to reimagine its preparation for future wildfires. This moment provides a short window of time to gain important insights into public engagement with science. With declining trust in science, it is critical to better understand approaches to involve the community in scientific research agenda setting. Public engagement with science researchers and practitioners are making important advancements in this area of work, including strengthening approaches that emphasize reciprocity and relational objectives, and creating opportunities for scientists and publics to listen to each other and feel heard in the co-production of knowledge. However, recent research about co-production of knowledge identifies a gap in evidence about how co-production for actionable knowledge related to complex environmental challenges actually happens, and how best to address tensions and challenges that can accompany such a process. To address each of the needs detailed above, this RAPID project will 1) facilitate local community public engagement with the scientific research community; 2) facilitate consideration of local community interests and priorities in the development of the new long-term research program; and 3) study the impact of a community engagement process on the scientists, the participating publics, and the long-term research plan itself. The knowledge generated from this project will immediately inform and help align H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest’s research agenda with the local rural and economically disadvantaged communities’ priorities, a change that will reverberate for decades to come. It will also provide an evidence-based example for others that, given the influential thought leadership in these research communities, will likely be emulated by other long-term ecological research programs, Experimental Forests, and other STEM research organizations, particularly the environmental research networks, field stations, and marine laboratories of the U.S. This project is a collaboration between Oregon State University and McKenzie Watershed Council comprised of ~25 partners representing local residents, commercial recreational interests, rural schools, conservation organizations, utilities, and local, state, and federal government entities. Additional leadership comes from the Director of H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. The facilitation and research components of this project employ the SCRREE framework developed through research and practice in the field of Public Engagement with Science. According to the SCRREE framework, effective public engagement with science is: Strategic, Cumulative, Reciprocal, Reflexive, Equitable, and Evidence-based. A series of approximately five community conversations, and interviews with approximately 30 scientists, staff and leaders, and community members will be immediately analyzed, summarized, and discussed with the larger research team to inform the research agenda development process. The study will use a single-case case study design with five elements: 1) community mapping, 2) community conversations, 3) interviews 4) observations of the research planning process, and 5) document analysis. Interview, observation and document data will be analyzed using thematic coding with pre-determined coding rubrics also grounded in the SCRREE framework, while allowing for additional emergent themes. Results will be shared back to the local community and H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest staff, research community, and networks. For additional national dissemination, the project will submit two peer-reviewed articles to open-source journals. This RAPID project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which supports projects that: (a) contribute to research and practice that considers informal STEM learning's role in equity and belonging in STEM; (b) promote personal and educational success in STEM; (c) advance public engagement in scientific discovery; (d) foster interest in STEM careers; (e) create and enhance the theoretical and empirical foundations for effective informal STEM learning; (f) improve community vibrancy; and/or (g) enhance science communication and the public's engagement in and understanding of STEM and STEM processes.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.

H.J.安德鲁斯实验森林是俄勒冈州中部国际知名的森林和溪流生态系统研究中心，是多个研究网络的一部分，其中包括长期生态研究网络，科学家和国家科学基金会在该网络上投资了有关环境变化的长期研究项目2023 年秋天，一场大火烧毁了这片森林的大部分地区，威胁着邻近的社区并摧毁了现有的研究计划和项目，科学界必须立即重新构想他们的研究，同时当地社区也必须重新构想其准备工作。随着对科学的信任度不断下降，这一时刻为获得公众参与科学的重要见解提供了一个短暂的时间窗口，因此更好地了解让公众参与科学研究议程制定的方法至关重要。和实践者在这一工作领域取得了重要进展，包括加强强调互惠和关系目标的方法，以及为科学家和公众创造相互倾听并在知识共同生产中感受到被倾听的机会。关于知识共同生产的研究发现了证据差距关于与复杂环境挑战相关的可操作知识的联合生产实际上是如何发生的，以及如何最好地解决这一过程中可能出现的紧张局势和挑战，为了满足上述每一项需求，该 RAPID 项目将 1) 促进当地社区公众。与科学研究界的互动；2) 促进在制定新的长期研究计划时考虑当地社区的利益和优先事项；3) 研究社区参与过程对科学家、参与公众和公众的影响；长期研究计划本身产生的知识。该项目的成果将立即为 H.J. 安德鲁斯实验森林的研究议程提供信息并帮助其与当地农村和经济弱势社区的优先事项保持一致，这一变化将在未来几十年内产生影响，它还将为其他人提供一个基于证据的范例。这些研究团体中具有影响力的思想领导力很可能会被其他长期生态研究计划、实验森林和其他 STEM 研究组织效仿，特别是美国的环境研究网络、实地站和海洋实验室。是俄勒冈州立大学和麦肯齐流域委员会的合作项目，由约 25 个合作伙伴组成，代表当地居民、商业娱乐利益、农村学校、保护组织、公用事业以及地方、州和联邦政府实体。安德鲁斯实验森林。该项目的促进和研究部分采用了通过公众参与科学领域的研究和实践开发的 SCRREE 框架。根据 SCRREE 框架，有效的公众参与科学是：战略性、累积性、互惠、反思、公平和基于证据 将立即与更大的研究团队进行分析、总结和讨论，包括大约 5 次社区对话以及对大约 30 名科学家、工作人员和领导者以及社区成员的采访。研究议程制定过程。该研究将采用包含五个要素的单案例研究设计：1) 社区绘图，2) 社区对话，3) 访谈，4) 研究规划过程的观察，以及 5) 访谈。观察和记录将使用同样基于 SCRREE 框架的预先确定的编码规则对数据进行分析，同时允许其他新兴主题将结果分享给当地社区和 H.J. Andrews 实验森林工作人员、研究社区和其他网络。该项目将向开源期刊提交两篇同行评审的文章，该项目由推进非正式 STEM 学习 (AISL) 计划资助，该计划支持以下项目： (a) 促进研究和实践，考虑非正式 STEM 学习在 STEM 中的公平和归属感； (b) 促进 STEM 中的个人和教育成功； (c) 促进公众参与科学发现； (d) 培养对 STEM 职业的兴趣； (e) 为有效的非正式 STEM 学习创造和加强理论和经验基础； (f) 提高社区活力；和/或 (g) 加强科学传播以及公众对 STEM 和 STEM 过程的参与和理解。通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。