Marine Neurotoxins: Examining the impacts of a pedagogically focused RET model that explores the interplay of marine biotoxins, commercial shellfish aquaculture, and public health safety

海洋神经毒素：检查以教学为重点的 RET 模型的影响，该模型探讨海洋生物毒素、商业贝类水产养殖和公共卫生安全之间的相互作用

• 批准号: 10593859
• 负责人: Ralph Imondi
• 金额: $ 13.02万
• 依托单位: COASTAL MARINE BIOLABS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-12-09 至 2027-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10593859
• 关键词: Affect; Algae; Aquaculture; Area; Award; Biological Monitoring; Biological Sciences; Bivalvia; California; Clinical; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Complement; Consultations; Consumption; Data Analyses; Data Set; Development; Economics; Education Projects; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Fisheries; Fostering; Future; Goals; Grant; Harvest; Health; High School Faculty; High School Student; Human; Industry; Instruction; Internships; Investigation; K-12 science education; Knowledge; Laboratories; Learning; Link; Location; Marine Toxins; Marketing; Mathematics; Methodology; Modeling; Monitor; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Research Council; Neurotoxins; Next Generation Science Standards; Oceanography; Paralysed; Patients; Phase; Phytoplankton; Poisoning; Privatization; Process; Production; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Recommendation; Recreation; Research; Resources; Risk; Role; Safety; Science; Scientist; Seafood; Shellfish; Structure; Students; Syndrome; Teacher Professional Development; Teaching Method; Toxic Environmental Substances; Translating; United States Food and Drug Administration; Universities; Water; computational reasoning; design; education research; eleventh grade; experience; food security; high school; industry involvement; innovation; interest; learning community; marine; meetings; neurotoxic; neurotransmission; novel; pedagogy; programs; public health relevance; science education; science teacher; skills; student participation; teacher; twelfth grade; vision science

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Commercial-scale seafood production in coastal and offshore marine environments is now possible due to rapidly emerging technical innovations in the field of aquaculture. Marine areas suitable for the development of offshore aquaculture are currently under evaluation by NOAA's Center for Coastal Ocean Science and include four study regions in the Southern California Bight. This nationally focused project overlaps with more regional efforts carried-out by private and public entities to advance bi-valve shellfish aquaculture and thereby complement southern California's wild-capture fisheries. Apart from its economic benefits to working waterfront communities and a promising role in bolstering national food security, the expansion of shellfish aquaculture presents potential risks to public health safety that are linked to naturally occurring biotoxins. These compounds are produced by certain microalgae and consumed by shellfish destined for commercial seafood markets, where they present a risk of neurotoxic poisoning for human consumers. This research education project creates novel opportunities for teachers and students in our coastal communities to explore the interplay of marine biotoxins, commercial shellfish aquaculture, and public health safety. The project will unfold in three overlapping phases. During the initial phase of the project, high school science teachers will participate in a research experience that emulates a traditional university research internship. This introductory experience is aimed at enhancing teachers' scientific knowledge and subject mastery, and engaging them in the use of field and laboratory methodologies used in connection with a baseline biotoxin impact study that is currently underway in our lab. During the second (translational) phase of the project, teachers will collaborate with our scientists on the creation of a classroom-ready instructional unit aimed at guiding high school students through a research-oriented exploration of marine biotoxins and their impacts on human health. In addition to enhancing their scientific knowledge and understanding of science inquiry, this pedagogically focused strand of the research experience is intended to engage teachers in instructional practices that are widely regarded as essential for preparing students to participate in the 21st century scientific workforce. Teacher implementation of the classroom experience during the third project phase will engage high school students in investigational practices that form the cornerstone of science inquiry and a primary focus of national science education reform initiatives. During this project phase, students will create a conceptual model to explain the clinical features presented by patients affected by marine biotoxins. After constructing their models, students will propose a solution to mitigate the health risks imposed by commercial shellfish aquaculture and conduct hands-on activities that are routinely used to monitor these risks. An overarching goal of this effort is to develop a practical blueprint for research-based lesson development that teachers can follow beyond the grant award period to guide a transformative and enduring shift in their current teaching practices.

项目摘要/摘要 由于现在，由于沿海和海上海洋环境的商业规模海鲜生产，由于 在水产养殖领域迅速新兴的技术创新。适合发展的海洋地区 NOAA沿海海洋科学中心目前正在评估海上水产养殖，包括 南加州的四个研究区域。这个以全国为重点的项目与更地区的重叠 私人和公共实体努力促进双阀贝类水产养殖，从而 补充南加州的野蛮渔业。除了经济利益到工作 海滨社区和在加强国家粮食安全方面发挥了有希望的作用，贝类的扩张 水产养殖给公共卫生安全带来了与自然存在的生物毒素有关的潜在风险。 这些化合物由某些微藻产生，并由注定商业的贝类食用 海鲜市场，在那里为人类消费者带来神经毒性中毒的风险。这项研究 教育项目为我们沿海社区的教师和学生创造了新的机会探索 海洋生物毒素，商业贝类水产养殖和公共卫生安全的相互作用。该项目将 在三个重叠阶段展开。在项目的初始阶段，高中科学老师将 参加模拟传统大学研究实习的研究经验。此介绍性 经验旨在增强教师的科学知识和主题掌握，并参与其中 与基线生物毒素影响研究相关的现场和实验室方法的使用是 目前正在我们的实验室中进行。在项目的第二个（翻译）阶段，教师将合作 与我们的科学家一起创建了一个教室就绪的教学单元，旨在指导高中生 通过以研究为导向的海洋生物毒素及其对人类健康的影响。此外 增强他们对科学探究的科学知识和理解，这是以教学为重点的 研究经验旨在让教师参与被广泛认为是的教学实践 为学生准备参加21世纪的科学劳动力至关重要。教师实施 在第三个项目阶段的课堂经验中，将吸引高中生进行调查 构成科学探究基石的实践和国家科学教育改革的主要重点 倡议。在此项目阶段，学生将创建一个概念模型来解释临床特征 由受海洋生物毒素影响的患者提出。构建模型后，学生将提出一个 解决商业贝类水产养殖施加的健康风险的解决方案并进行动手实施 通常用于监视这些风险的活动。这项努力的总体目标是开发 基于研究的课程开发的实用蓝图，教师可以超越赠款奖 指导其当前教学实践的变革性和持久转变的时期。