E&O Breakout GroupOctober 20–22, 2004 Community InSAR Workshop Education and Outreach Breakout...

October 20–22, 2004 E&O Breakout Group

Community InSAR Workshop

Education and Outreach Breakout Group

October 20 – 22, 2004


E&O, Higher Ed 6Gov’t / Industry 1Consultants 1Science Centers 2K-12 education 2

Education & Outreach Breakout Group


• Match Science Goals, Data and Product Availability with a Related (and feasible) Education and Outreach Plan

• Assemble an E&O working group with broad audience representation and participation – Achieve broad non-science community involvement– Provide education and resources to both internal and

external science communities– Organize InSAR E&O outside context of specific missions

The E&O Planning Challenges


• Audiences

• Planning Goals / Process

• Questions

• Recommendations

Breakout Summary


Audiences


• Students and Educators– K-12: Elementary, Middle and High School

students, their parents, and educators– Undergraduate / 2-year (Community) College

students and educators– Undergraduate / 4-year College students and

educators– Graduate students and educators

AudiencesFormal Education


AudiencesKnowledge Transfer / Data Output

•Scientific Research community, including–InSAR community–non-InSAR community–Social scientists–Science educators


AudiencesKnowledge Transfer / Data Output: Research for

partnerships and Development for Output

•Industry–IT / Data management–Aerospace–Hazard assessment–Mapping–Financial - Insurance - Real Estate–Others


• Government – Congressional aides and staff– Federal Government agencies – State / Local agencies with E&O personnel

• Forest Service / Rangers• State Parks

– Public Policy-makers– Decision-makers at Federal, State, and Local

levels

AudiencesKnowledge Transfer / Data Output: Research for

partnerships and Development for Output


• General public– Lifelong learners – Media reporters (print, electronic, radio)– Writers– Filmmakers– Education Professionals (PD)– Museum and Art Gallery Curators and Educators– Science Center Educators

AudiencesInformal Education / Outreach


Planning Goals / Process


– Rationale for a non-mission-based InSAR E&O Plan: Create• Awareness• Understanding• Friends • Funds

E&O Planning Goals / Process


• Awareness– “Why InSAR?”

• Need concrete examples linked to hooks such as “…single most valuable tool that Earth scientists can provide to world geological hazard mitigation.”

– Provide examples of products for the public sector according to audience types

– Create products to publicize importance of InSAR (reports, brochures, news articles, TV/film/video production)

– Answer:• What can InSAR provide that other technologies can’t?• What was life like before InSAR? • How will life improve with InSAR?

Process Goals


• Understanding• Inspire the next generation of scientists• Stimulate national science literacy and learning• Advance public understanding of benefits of

InSAR technology and uses• Promote understanding of long term benefits of

InSAR– i.e., space exploration / including Earth and beyond

Process Goals


• Friends • Recruit potential collaborators in all sectors

– Increase potential use of research / data output– Partnerships lead to increased awareness,

understanding and provide additional resources

Process Goals


• Funds– For planning workshops, plans and proposal(s)

development– As result of partnerships / collaborations

Process Goals


What works– Seamless integration of InSAR rsearch community– 2-way communication w/ audiences– Consensus on strategic plan with vision, mission

statement, objectives, goals, tasks– Meet regularly to maintain communication and

increase mutual trust– Evaluate progress (formative, summative)– Maintain flexibility and willingness to readily adapt

to change are key elements in the process

Process Goals


What doesn’t work– Research community working in isolation– Assuming we know what our audiences need– Creating plans without audience participation– Reinventing the wheel

Process Goals


Successful Planning Models– SCEC, EarthScope, LIGO have incorporated

consensus building processes in which each audience communicates challenges / needs in the context of proposed research

• A series of structured, focus-group-style workshops• Time consuming but worthwhile

Process Goals


Models– SCEC: ~80 people, ~4000 hours

• Result: Strategies that carried SCEC forward beyond original 11-year STC cycle

– EarthScope: ~50 people, ~3600 hours• Result: National Level / Model E&O Program with global

impact

– LIGO: ~40 people per observatory, ~2000 hours each site

• Result: $5M / 5 year award for LIGO Science Education Center

Process Goals


Questions


Questions

• What are the truly important, challenging and exciting questions related to InSAR E&O?

• Why should our tax-paying audiences care about / pay for SAR/InSAR-based research?

• How does InSAR-related E&O / access to data output benefit

– the global scientific community?

– each target audience? – society as a whole?


Questions

• What specific activities are best for each audience? [in focus groups, ask both scientists and audiences]

– What are their challenges and needs? – How can our research agendas help overcome those

challenges and meet those needs? – What communication and dissemination methods should

be used? – What societal role should we jointly pursue?


Recommendations


Recommendations

• E&O planning process should include scientists and representatives from target audiences

– Integrate the E&O planning with scientific planning process

• Concurrent with science / mission planning

– Conduct workshops co-located with scientific conferences, in order to include scientists

• InSAR scientists should teach other scientists, educators, industry reps and E&O professionals about InSAR science and uses of InSAR data


Recommendations

• Create an E&O working group as part of the InSAR community that will be maintained throughout planning & execution process

• Appoint a chair of the working group who would take responsibility for the success of the planning process

• Working group should focus on the why and the how but not the what


Recommendations

• Working group should develop a planning grant request to support focus groups / workshops

• First workshops scheduled as training opportunities for working group members

– Cover InSAR “basics”: e.g., “how” to use the data. Conduct these for:

• Education community• Scientific community• Industry


Recommendations

•Subsequent workshops incorporate focus groups’ output


Recommendations

•A strategic plan / proposed budget / timeline should be created by the Working Group

•Use all focus groups’ output •Submit Plan to InSAR Community and potential funding sources.


Recommendations

•The Plan should –Include mission-related merit review in terms of product development and output –Recommend creation of web-based databases on all activities related to InSAR output–Suggest ways to provide broad access to consistent, high level data products for multiple uses (e.g., interoperability, standards in science and industry)–Incorporate protocols/parameters required to develop a standard for data usage–Incorporate existing industry uses of the technology and data


Summary Session Day 3: Identifying and Prioritizing Acquisition Strategies/Needs – Report Outline

• Use of existing systems and archives to meet science needs– Negotiated data sharing arrangements for existing and future data sets– International cooperative experiments using existing and planned sensors

(e.g., Antarctic missions)– Role of commercial SAR data providers

• New satellite systems to advance frontier– Major science goals– Capabilities and technologies required

• Recommendations for the US SAR program– Scope– Priorities

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