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Chairs: Anita Davis, Eric Brown de Coulston
Rapporteur: Jeannie Allen
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Discussion Questions:
- Are NASA formal education and training programs (e.g., ESSF, GSRP, NIP, etc.) effective? How could they be improved?
- What types of public education and outreach activities do Terrestrial Ecology, Biodiversity and Applied Sciences researchers engage in? How is the effectiveness assessed?
- How could the CC&E focus area act to improve public awareness of its research results and their importance? What is the researcher's primary responsibility and what should NASA do?
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Several folks suggested maybe adding a plenary presentation where a scientist could present his/her project and linkages with E/PO
– submitted by Eric (Eric) Brown de Colstoun at 2006-08-28 16:42:16 |
Several of the science breakout sessions identified action items and priorities that would complement E/PO objectives. The modeling groups pointed out the power for citizen science of easy-to-use mesoscale and global scale models. Getting citizens and secondary school students to work with these models are important ways to train/inspire the next generation of ESS.
Another examples is that data sets, missions, and projects need to be synthesized. (a) The science community can step back from the individual research agendas of PIs to see how components either do or don't fit together and to contextualize results relative broader ESS/biodiversity science conducted by other PIs/agencies. One science breakout mentioned the need for these kinds of summaries. (b) These high level summaries would be essential for E/PO activities. EPO professionals need these to prep them for interviews with scientists and to prepare public releases. By making this a priority of the PIs, EPO could be confident that the material had been adequately peer-reviewed. Peer-review is essential for good E/PO.
This meeting did represent a watershed in that there is now a critical mass of projects to draw from. It is imperative that the current state of practice be summarized at a high level for EPO. Can internal funds be garnered to enable NASA EPO personnel to summarize the findings from this conference?
CCE programs need an EPO strategy, including formal edu, informal edu, citizen science, product dissemination to make EPO a part of the science culture within CCE.
I work with a current science program (http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org) that distributes regularly updated ESS and Bio Sciences content via high-definition video and the web to over 10 million visitors to 28 institutions. Broadening the exposure and distribution of value-added products that use NASA data would benefit us all. Can NASA help open the pipelines between EPO products and audiences those products would not otherwise reach?
– submitted by Ned Gardiner at 2006-08-25 09:31:08 |
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