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resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting. It describes a project that creates experiences in herpetology (the study of reptiles and amphibians) for rural underrepresented groups.
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TEAM MEMBERS: University of North Carolina Greensboro Catherine Matthews
resource research Media and Technology
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It describes a project that will expand the functions and applications of FieldScope, a web-based science information portal currently supported by the National Geographic Society (NGS). The goal is to create a single, powerful infrastructure for Public Participation in Science Research (PPSR) projects that any organization can use to create their own project and support their own community of participants.
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TEAM MEMBERS: National Geographic Society Mary Ford
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It describes an exhibit developed for bus transit stations designed to reach underrepresented groups in Portland.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Marilyn Johnson Scott Pattison
resource research Media and Technology
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It highlights the work accomplished through the ARIEL project, which developed a cyberlearning exhibit using augmented and virtual reality.
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TEAM MEMBERS: The Franklin Institute Karen Elinich Susan Yoon
resource research Public Programs
This conference poster from 2014 AISL PI meeting details the accomplishments of the Science Festival Alliance, a professional network of individuals and institutions designed to increase the capacity to develop and implement large scale community science festivals.
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TEAM MEMBERS: MIT Museum Gerri Trooskin Ben Wiehe
resource research Media and Technology
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. Using STEM America (USA) is a two-year Pathways project designed to examine the feasibility of using informal STEM learning opportunities to improve science literacy among English Language Learner (ELL) students in Imperial County, California.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Edwin Obergfell Philip Villamor
resource research Media and Technology
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It describes the PBS NewsHour STEM Learning project, a broadcast and online science journalism and informal science education initiative to report breaking science news and cutting-edge STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) research and researchers to a national audience.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Patti Parson
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It describes a project that creates incubators composed of community members to foster innovative solutions to regional challenges.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Harvey Seifter
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It describes a project that creates citizen science projects in the Rio Grande de Manati watershed, taking participants through the participatory, collaborative, and co-creative phases of informal science education.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Yogani Govendry Lee Rodriguez
resource project Public Programs
The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico is creating citizen science projects in five research areas (insect monitoring; coastal/river system management; bird communities; bat assemblages; and cultural resources) that allow 140 Hispanic residents of Puerto Rico (age 14 and older) to move along a continuum of research involvement from contributor to collaborator to co-creator. As citizen scientists engage in scientific research that measures the effects of urban development on the Manati River watershed in northern Puerto Rico, the project team is evaluating the degree to which participants show changes in science knowledge, skills, attitudes, communication, and behavior. The proposed project is accelerating the development of citizen science activities in Puerto Rico. New scientific knowledge generated by citizen scientists will have practical importance within and beyond the Manati watershed because Puerto Rico is undergoing rapid urban development, resulting in the loss of biodiversity and emergence of environmental problems such as lower water quality. Environmental data collected by citizen scientists will form an environmental database that permits long-term watershed monitoring and informs land use decision making.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Yogani Govendry Lee Rodriguez
resource evaluation Exhibitions
These responses are taken from a series of visitor interviews about the habitat cases. They helped inform label writing for the cases.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Oakland Museum of California Mary T. Faria
resource evaluation Public Programs
The Gallery of California Natural Sciences hosted four preview events before officially opening all sections. The target audiences for the evaluation of developing exhibits were Members and the general public with a focus on families. Researchers collected qualitative data in response to prototypes and developing exhibits for the Introduction and Oakland Sections, as well as for the developing Now and Then and Coastal Issues Lounges, and for the prototyping of live gallery animations. An exit survey was also administered to capture narrative, qualitative responses to visitors’ experience of
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TEAM MEMBERS: Oakland Museum of California Mary T. Faria