Project Description: The purposes of this project are to cooperatively expand and provide teacher professional development and educational programs with CUNY – a partner institution in the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit – addressing environmental issues that are affecting Jamaica Bay and its surrounding area; and to advance the internship program in which CUNY faculty advisors work with NPS staff to engage undergraduate, and graduate students from CUNY in all core curriculum disciplines. Subject matter faculty experts in areas of environmental monitoring, geoscience and phenology will participate with NPS staff to lead interns applying educational pedagogy and practices focused on current research projects in areas such as environmental monitoring, geoscience and phenology to accomplish the mutual goals of each organization. Interns’ recruitment will be done collaboratively between CUNY -BC faculty and NPS education staff, using the BC Magner Center recruitment office as well as professors’ identification of their most suitably credentialed graduate and undergraduate students relative to the research study.
Lead Principal Investigator: Dr. Deborah Shanley, City University of New York
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Jennifer Adams, City University of New York
Partner Institution: City University of New York
Federal Agency: National Park Service
Federal Agency Technical Contact: Jeanette Parker
Project Type: Education
Start Year: 2014
End Year: 2018
Initial Funding Amount: $20,000.00
Federal Grant Number: P14AC00960
Amendments
- Amendment Number: 0001, Year: 2015, Amount: $28.00
- Amendment Number: 0002, Year: 2018, Amount: $0.00
State(s): New York