SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NCDC231 : Collaborative for Research on Food, Energy, and Water Education
- Period Covered: 10/01/2016 to 09/30/2017
- Date of Report: 09/06/2017
- Annual Meeting Dates: 04/10/2017 to 04/10/2017
Participants
April 10, 2017 meeting: Archie Clutter, UNL Dean of ARD Troy Sadler, University of Missouri, Re-STEM Center Andrew Kinslow, grad student for Troy Sadler Hannah Scherer, Virginia Tech Hui Hui Wang Julie Brown- UMN Gillian Roehning- UMN Todd Campbell- UConn Jenny Dauer-UNL Kathleen Hunt- Iowa state Christie Li- University of Missouri Dave Gosslin Jamie Loizzo UNL ALEC Cory Forbes UNL
Accomplishments
NCDC231 is a planning committee that has been active for 1 year. During the past year, the committee’s activities have focused on the following. First, we have engaged in a series of planning meetings focused on the planning committee’s goals. These included two virtual meetings with committee members in winter 2016/spring 2017, as well as the committee’s first face-to-face meeting in Lincoln, NE in April, 2017. Second, as part of the April, 2017 meeting, the committee sponsored an invited poster session at the 2017 Water for Food Global Conference, focused on education in the Food-Energy-Water-Nexus. The structured poster session featured an invited panel of national experts and 25 contributors to the poster session, including members of the NCDC231 committee. Third, committee members have been engaged in developing external funding proposals and pursuing funding to support an expanded NC-FEW workshop/mini-conference in spring, 2018. These include USDA-NIFA HEC grants program (pending) and the NSEC RAC (awarded). A priority for the upcoming fiscal year is to expand planning conversations around NCDC231 with increased involvement of a larger group of transdisciplinary collaborators focused on FEW education and education research. Forbes also attended the NSEC conference in June, 2017 in support of the committee’s application for conference funding. Finally, fourth, committee members have pursued an engagement agenda by developing and submitting NC-FEW focused sessions at professional conferences to which committee members below. These include sessions at NSEC, NACTA, Earth Educators’ Rendezvous, and upcoming North American Association for Environmental Education conference. The primary purpose of these conference sessions is to raise visibility for NCDC231 activities and engage a broader community of FEW educators and researchers.
Impacts
- The planning committee has engaged over 30 faculty members from more than 20 institutions of higher education in the United States, many of whom have become official members of the committee. The symposium at the 2017 Water for Food Global Conference involved over 30 participants and 50 attendees. Through additional conference sessions and dissemination, NC-FEW has reached hundreds more faculty members and potential collaborators. Year 1 activities have led to the development, submission, and/or awarding of multiple grants in support of Year 2 committee activities: - Network of STEM Education Centers (NSEC) Research Action Cluster (RAC) ($10,500 awarded) - USDA-NIFA Higher Education Challenge Grants program ($30,000 pending) - UNL ARD Strategic (Miscellaneous) Funding ($10,000 in preparation) Overall, efforts evident in Year 1 of this planning committee continue to build capacity of national FEW education and education research efforts. This increased capacity will have the long-term effect of improving FEW education programs and enhancing research and evaluation of those programs.
Publications
Forbes, C.T. & Li, C. (accepted). A national collaborative for food, energy, and water education. Symposium to be presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the North American Association of Environmental Education, San Juan, PR.
Forbes, C.T. (invited, 2017, June). A national collaborative for food, energy, & water education: Opportunities and strategic visioning. Invited presentation at the 2017 annual meeting of the National Network of STEM Education Centers (NSEC).
Forbes, C.T., Foster, D., Millenbah, K., Scherer, H., & Wang, H-H. (2017, June). A national collaborative for food, energy, and water education. Paper presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA), West Lafayette, IN.
Forbes, C.T. & Scherer, H. (2017, July). Education in the Food-Energy-Water-Nexus: A transdisciplinary community. Paper presented at the 2017 Earth Educators’ Rendezvous, Albuquerque, NM.
Forbes, C.T. (2017, April). Food, Energy, and Water Education: Research, Development, Extension, and Outreach. Structured Poster Session, Water for Food Global Conference, NCDC231 Annual Meeting, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.