How do people conceptualize, interpret, teach about, and engage in the many, and often contested, social and scientific dynamics that are entailed by the enterprise of restoring ecological structure and dynamics to an earlier state (presumably less disturbed by humans)?
Applications for an interaction-intensive workshop on these issues are sought from scientists, science educators, and scholars in history, philosophy, and social studies of science (including graduate students) who are interested in promoting the social contextualization of science through interdisciplinary education and outreach activities beyond their current disciplinary and academic boundaries.
Location: Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole MA,
USA
Dates 9am April 20 - 2pm April 23, 2006
Organizer: Peter J. Taylor, University of Massachusetts Boston, Program in Science, Technology and Values, peter.taylor@umb.edu
Financial Support
Funding recently confirmed from NSF for the workshop includes a $200 stipend/subsidy for travel and accommodation for each participant contingent on receipt of new curriculum or outreach activities within six months of workshop's completion.
In addition, a small amount of additional subsidy is available for the remainder of travel and accommodation, with priority given to graduate students and independent scholars (including a graduate student "apprentice")
For more details, see http://www.stv.umb.edu/newssc06.html
For arrangements & application process, see http://www.stv.umb.edu/newsscarrange.html
Application target date: December 31