SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NC1207 : Collaborative for Research on Food, Energy, and Water Education
- Period Covered: 10/01/2018 to 09/30/2019
- Date of Report: 11/22/2019
- Annual Meeting Dates: 09/21/2019 to 09/21/2019
Participants
Hannah Scherer Nicole Sintov Hui-Hui Wang Cory Forbes Doug Lombardi Archie Clutter Todd Campbell Eliza Reilly Sarah Fick Chelsea Romulo Greg Goins Lynn Bryan Craig Allen Mari Mwale
At our day-long Multistate meeting, we discussed many aspects of the newly-awarded NSF INFEWS RCN grant-supported activities, which parallel and are integrated with those of NC1207. This included project communication, establishment of working groups, and dissemination.
Accomplishments
| Outcomes | Outputs | Activities | Milestones | |
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Develop literature reviews/white papers |
Established working groups Special issue of journal Water |
by June, 2023 | |
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FEW-Nexus education briefs | Author and make briefs publicly-available | by August, 2025 | |
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Grant proposals by collaborating NC-FEW members | Identified and documented relevant funding programs | by August, 2025 | |
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webinars, training workshops, information sharing, collaboration building |
implement workshops organize and offer webinars communicate funding information planned activities at invited conference |
by Augsut, 2025 | |
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Project website, ncfew.org webinars newsletters |
develop, implement, and/or disseminate this information | ongoing |
Project activities during this reporting period were primarily focused on translating activities and outputs from a previous invited conference associated with NCDC231 into an NSF INFEWS RCN proposal that could sustain NC-FEW activities for the next 5 years. The project team distilled and synthesized information from the May, 2018 invited conference and authored and submitted reports to agencies that funded that meeting. We organized a group comprised of NCD231 and NC1207 participants, was well as non-participants, to develop and submit the RCN proposal in fall, 2018. We recieved preliminary notice of funding from NSF in May, 2019. The project team responded to NSF reviewer questions and began preparing an action plan for implementation upon official notice of funding, which was received in summer, 2019. The NSF funding officially begain 9/1/2019. We held our annual meeting in September, 2019. Since summer, we have been heavily engaged in project start-up, including multiple leadership team meetings, developing the onboarding survey, 3 individual working group meetings, building a NC-FEW website, producing our first newsletter, and recrutiment. While not reflected in NC1207's official membership list, we have over 20 leadership team members and close to 150 interested participants who have asked to join NC-FEW, about half of which have thus far completed the onboarding survey. The onboarding survey will provide data about project participants and ultimately be used for project evaluation purposes
Impacts
- Receipt and deployment of $750k in National Science Foundation funding under Grant No.1856040 (ECR-EHR Core Research) to cultivate an NC-FEW community by 2024
- Receipt of $300k USDA-NIFA HEC funding to enhance Undergraduate Teaching and Learning about Socio-Hydrological Challenges through Data-Driven Modeling in the FANH Sciences by 2023
Publications
Forbes, C.T., Scherer, H., Wang, H-H., Millenbah, K., Sintov, N., & Li, C. (2019, October). A national collaborative for research food, energy, & water education. Poster presented at annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), Phoenix, AZ.
Huyck Orr, C., Scherer, H.H., Forbes, C.T., & Bruckner, M.Z. (2018, December). Teaching about food, water, and energy in the context of sustainability: Opportunities and connections with the InTeGrate STEP center. Poster presented at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington, DC.
Forbes, C.T., Lie, C.., Busch. K.C., Stevenson, K. (2018, October). A National Collaborative for Food, Energy, and Water Education Research. Invited panel symposium at the annual meeting of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), Spokane, WA.
*4 presentations/sessions accepted for winter/spring, 2020