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Education and Public Outreach –

2013-2018 Proposal Budget

and New Initiatives

CoComApril 9, 2012

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• New Instructors– Articulated online curriculum and professional

development

• New undergraduates– Targeted undergraduate efforts and Educational

Affiliates program

• New classrooms– Expand classroom seismology with new sensors,

software and support resources

• New generation of information consumers– Interactive content for mobile devices

• New Collaborations

Coordinated with pan-IRIS themes

Proposed EPO theme

“Bringing Seismology to a Wider Audience”

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• 5.5 FTE (no reduction from FY13)– Manage internships (student costs covered by REU award)– Web pages and social media– New Educational materials– Teachable Moment slide sets– Online and in-person professional development

• Half-time consultant– Animations and videos

• Ongoing program costs – Travel, materials, replacement parts and computers, etc

• IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lectureship• SACNAS undergraduate student field trip• Active Earth module development and dissemination• Limited publications• Booth at NSTA, GSA and AGU (all only 10 ft)

Items included in base budget

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Salaries + Fringe 737,000

Overhead + G&A 371,000

Travel 55,000

Participant support 12,000

Materials 19,000

Publications 12,000

Consultants 42,000

Other direct 52,000

Total $1,300,000

EPO FY14 Base Budget

13% reduction from FY12 Spending Plan

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• USArray Short Course• TA outreach travel• TA outreach subaward• Educational seismographs• Educational seismograph training workshop• Educational Affiliate travel to IRIS bi-annual workshop• Faculty summer salary for development of undergraduate

curriculum• Educational software development (university subaward)• Printing of posters• Significantly trimmed

– AGU booth (reduced to minimum 10 ft size)

Cuts required to meet Base Budget – FY14-FY18

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• FY17 and FY18– Half of remaining staff travel– Active Earth module development

• FY18– GSA booth– NSTA booth– Half of remaining AGU booth • Would require sharing with UNAVCO

Additional cuts required for Base Budget FY17-18

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Ongoing tasks that weren’t included in base budget or in pan-IRIS initiatives

EPO Program level priorities

Priority Item Cost

1 Educational sensors 13,000

2 TA outreach and teacher education 57,000

3 USArray short course 45,000

4 Large AGU booth 13,000

Total $128,000

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• Most new EPO proposal activities integrate with the pan-IRIS initiatives:– Taming the Internet– Undergraduate Engagement Through

Research and Education– Documentation and Publication of Best

Practices

Pan-IRIS initiatives

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• Modifying existing content and and creating new ways to access IRIS-wide information on all platforms

• Key elements:– Device-independent access to content

• Mobile devices and apps • Provided via social media, Wikipedia, etc, as well as IRIS

web site– Accessing data

• Viewing and analysis software• Web Services GUI

– On-line curriculum (undergraduate and grades 6-12)

Taming the Internet

FY14 FY15 FY16

FY17 FY18Notional 5 year budget (X $1000) 50 75 110 295 300

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• Involves close collaboration with DMS• Examples:

– Build educational wrappers for DMS data products• Classroom PPTs and instructor guides

– IRIS Earthquake Browser• Add other educational features to DMS tool

– Web services• SeismicCanvas - Undergrad level waveform analysis• jAmaseis – Simple event location and magnitude• New apps

– Seedlink• jAmaseis - 24 hour plots of global stations

Taming the Internet

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• Online curriculum and professional development– Turn our collection of educational resources into a

single, branded product for online learning • Tailored to different levels (years 6-16)

– Create pathways between resources– Organizing materials into learning sequences – New web applications– New video, animations

• Considerable NSF interest in online learning– Develop expertise for potential RFPs

Closely tied to Undergraduate Engagement initiative

Taming the Internet

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• Strong emphasis on providing more resources for undergraduate faculty– Access to data and classroom materials

• Reinvigorate Educational Affiliates membership– Two Year Colleges are key target– Travel to IRIS workshop– Sabbatical in seismology travel– Topical workshops

• Faculty summer salary for curriculum development• Undergraduate faculty workshop• Collaboration with InTeGrate project

– 5 year $10M national undergrad geoscience education program

Undergraduate Engagement Through Research and Education

FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18

Notional 5 year budget (X $1000) 40 75 80 90 140

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• Co-lead with IDS• Work with other programs to create operational

and training materials• Collaborate with new online version of NMSOP?• Outsource writing to technical writer

Documentation and Publication of Best Practices

FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18

Notional 5 year budget (X $1000) 25 25 50

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Pan-IRIS Initiatives Summary – EPO Lead (X $1000)

FY14

FY15

FY16 FY17

FY18

Taming the Internet 50 75 110 295 300

Mobile device content and apps 30 50 50 150 150On-line curriculum

Web applications 50 50Video, animations 10 15 15 20 20

Accessing dataViewing and analysis software 10 10 20 25 30Web Services GUI 25 50 50

Undergraduate Engagement 40 75 80 90 140

Faculty summer salary 15 15 15 15 30Undergraduate faculty workshop 25 25 25 25Reinvigorate Educational Affiliates membership

Travel to IRIS workshop 25 30 35Sabbatical in seismology travel 10 10 10 10Topical workshop 25 40 40

Documenting Best Practices 25 25 50

Annual Totals 90 150 215 410 490

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Spares

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• Online curriculum and professional development– Leverage IRIS involvement in InTeGrate• Multi-institution national undergraduate

geoscience education project led by SERC (5 years, $10 million)

– Continue curriculum development started under current Grand Challenges project• Provide summer salary for faculty to develop

and improve resources

– Provide workshops for college faculty

Expanded undergraduate focus

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• Reinvigorate Educational Affiliate membership– Key audiences• Community colleges

– Highly diverse and significant source of students for 4-year schools

• 4-year schools without a seismologist

– Targeted workshops– Travel for sabbatical research– Highlight online resources

Expanded undergraduate focus

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• MEMS sensors in every classroom– Arrays as well as single units– Coordination of Quake Catcher and IRIS networks

• Classroom seismographs– IRIS software supports multiple educational

seismographs– Expanded international collaboration– IRIS software and web data base services are the

standard

• Educational access to DMS archive– jAmaseis– SeismicCanvas

• Seed regional networks to support classroom teachers

Expanding classroom seismology

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• NASA– IRIS EPO is part of proposal for Mars seismograph

mission (2016 launch)– Data will be be provided to IRIS DMS

• American Meteorological Society– Provide workshops at AMS meetings– Create information packets that IRIS seismologists

can provide to local meteorologists

New collaborations