Earth System Monitoring by John Orcutt

Author:John Orcutt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer New York, New York, NY

Education

Education and outreach efforts are integral aspects of the LTER program. As a network of sites with a preponderance of academic scientists, graduate and undergraduate education is central to the goals of the network. Students at both graduate and undergraduate levels are routinely engaged in collecting LTER data, performing experiments, and analyzing results. This participation forms an important part of their educational experience, and hence education and research are highly integrated in most LTER programs. The network has many examples of former undergraduate students that have become research scientists in the LTER program.

In addition, LTER provides a unique opportunity to address the educational needs of teachers and students from grades K-12. As a long-term program, LTER has the potential to provide continuous opportunities for students to participate and learn throughout their entire academic life.

The LTER Network has adopted a strategic vision for education and outreach with three components. The first component addresses the structure needed to enable LTER research to have a public impact. This structure includes leadership within the network, a distributed organization that provides resources for sites to implement education programs at the local level, and cyberinfrastructure that enables broad collaboration among local education projects and between researchers and educators. The second element of the LTER vision for education establishes the goal of conducting programs in research and development that address environmental science literacy by respecting and including the diverse perspectives that exist within the LTER Network. The final aspect of the LTER vision addresses inclusion of key constituent groups, including K-12 teachers and administrators, undergraduate and graduate students and professors, and end citizens active in LTER communities.

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