Opportunity for Faculty in Minority-Serving Institutions to Join Macroscale Ecology Education Interdisciplinary Leadership Team ----------------------------------------------------------------- Future of Environmental Decisions College Student Workshop June 2-7, 2013, Baltimore MD
Opportunity ----------- The Ecological Society of America (ESA) Office of Education and Diversity Programs is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for faculty in Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI) to join an interdisciplinary Macroscale Ecology Education Leadership Team. Selected faculty will join the Leadership Team to organize ESA's Future of Environmental Decisions (FED) workshop to be held from June 2-7, 2013 in Baltimore, MD and expected to develop future workshops in their own regions. The workshop seeks to advance an education program for college students that will introduce them to continental-scale science and research facilitated by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). From this project, there is the potential to develop curricula that can be taught through courses or through regional institutes. The FED workshop is held in conjunction with a second workshop in ESA's Scaling Up: Joint workshops on Continental-scale Population and Community Ecology and Education project, made possible through an award by the National Science Foundation. Organized by ESA's Science office, the second workshop is intended for early career faculty towards developing macroscale ecology research ideas. More information on the early career faculty workshop will be forthcoming. Background ---------- Since 2008, ESA has been working with its partners to build foundations for the participation of diverse students and faculty from small undergraduate and minority-serving institutions in discovering and understanding the impacts of climate change, land-use change, and invasive species. This initiative has led to the development of an interactive conceptual framework (http://www.esa.org/education_diversity/fed/content/conceptual-framework) for continental-scale ecology education, several teaching modules using large scale data (http://esa.org/ecoed/index.php?P=AdvancedSearch&Q=Y&G118=1&RP=5&SR=0&ST=Advanced), and a prototype Future of Environmental Decisions (FED) education workshop (http://www.esa.org/education_diversity/fed/studentworkshop) in 2010 using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) visualization of biological, environmental and social data to explore how regional scale data can inform environmental decision making. 2013 Future of Environmental Decisions (FED) Workshop ----------------------------------------------------- The FED workshop aims to introduce undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to NEON, and provide opportunities for students to: . develop insights into environmental decision-making using environmental and social science data . gain 21st century skills in working with large scale data, mapping and public communications technologies . build skills to communicate science to land and resource managers and the general public . explore potential ecology and environmental science careers For greater details and application information, please visit: http://www.esa.org/education_diversity/fed/ Andrea McMillen Education Programs Coordinator Education and Diversity Programs Office Ecological Society of America 1990 M Street, NW Suite 700 Washington DC 20036 202.833.8773 x 236 202.833.8775 Fax ESA Office of Education and Diversity Programs SEEDS - Diverse People for a Diverse Science EcoEd Digital Library (beta) - Advancing Outstanding Ecology Education Life Discovery - Doing Science Education Conference Exploring Biology in a Changing World March 15-16, 2013| St. Paul, MN REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
