# Presentation: 659615

## Community InSAR Workshop

- Education and Outreach Breakout Group

- October 20 – 22, 2004

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

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

- 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

**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

- 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

**Audiences**
*Formal Education*

**Audiences**
*Knowledge Transfer / Data Output*

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

**Audiences**
*Knowledge 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

- 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

**Audiences**
*Knowledge 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

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

**Audiences**
*Informal Education / Outreach*

## Planning Goals / Process 

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

**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?

- “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

- 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

**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

**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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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