11:33:21 From Michelle Lawing : Welcome! Thanks for joining. 11:47:31 From Michael Stevens : I see opportunities for collaborations between national parks and field stations. 11:47:46 From Matt Snider (he/him) : You mentioned that adjacent counties can share their ILI's is there an easy way to alert under-resourced counties about nearby resources? 11:49:06 From Kerry Wininger - SSU Center for Env inquiry : Q2: We hold events in Spanish, starting to hold events for the disabled community, and are actively looking for more groups and ways 11:49:11 From Matt Dykstra : Pierce Cedar Creek Institute has partnered with our local library. We have done childhood reading programs, hikes at the library, and a movie series. We aren't necessarily in a designated underserved area, but we do have parts of our local community that would be. 11:51:02 From Chuck Yohn : Also consider the Army Corp of Engineers. We partner with them on outreach. They actually get more visitors than national parks. 11:51:19 From Beth Norman : did you, or is there a way, to quantify the reach of ILIs across the counties or other spatial unit? 11:51:40 From Stacy McNulty (she/her) : We partner with the local library, the nature center and the regional cultural history center. Often, the same public program that might get 25 people to come onto our field station will get 2-3 times the audience at the other facilities, which is interesting concerning impact of outreach. Perhaps a reason for field station to hold events in the community... 11:52:53 From Kerry Wininger - SSU Center for Env inquiry : Army Corps of Engineers has the Bay Model Museum in Marin county, CA, which is much like a museum 11:53:41 From Caitlin Potter : The Bonneville Lock & Dam Army Corps of Engineers site is awesome!! https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/bonneville/ 11:53:57 From Caitlin Potter : they have three visitor centers, I think 11:55:15 From Matt Dykstra : We have had a huge bump in program participants for some of virtual zoom programs. We haven't targeted underserved areas as part of our marketing, but I am thinking this could have some potential. Has anyone looked at trying to advertise to underserved areas with virtual programs? 11:57:30 From Lesley Knoll : Hi Matt! I partner with state park naturalists (my station is within a state park) and are working on targeting some underserved local schools with virtual content. They have the relationships with them already from field trips. 11:57:47 From Michael Stevens : https://ijw.org/perspectives-of-us-nps-employees/#:~:text=NPS%20employees%20shared%20four%20main,to%20a%20variety%20of%20students. This is the link to the NPS employees' perspectives on field stations in national parks. 11:57:47 From Caitlin Potter : We’ve had a ton of luck with our virtual webinars where scientists talk about their research via zoom! 11:58:21 From Caitlin Potter : audience has grown from ~50 participants when it was an in-person program and is now 100+ as a webinar 11:58:38 From Beth Norman : we have seen similar increases in participation in our virtual seminars/workshops 12:00:09 From Kerry Wininger - SSU Center for Env inquiry : We’ve had the same experience with increased virtual participation at our stations in northbay California, and have ideas to combine virtual and in-person site visits once that’s allowed 12:00:47 From Michael Stevens : Thanks Rachel. Congratulations on your paper in Science Advances! 12:01:32 From Rachel A Short : Thanks Michael! Sorry for not recognizing your name! 12:01:41 From Jill Zarestky (she/her) : The Science Advances paper is scheduled to appear early next month. Stay tuned. :) 12:07:56 From Jorge Ramos : When you say targeted, what do you mean by targeted? Is it just invitations or actually events with them? 12:11:07 From Michelle Lawing : Q1: Does this program aim to recruit populations usually under-represented in the sciences? 12:11:21 From Michelle Lawing : Q2: Which groups usually under-represented in the sciences are recruited for [outreach program name]? 12:11:47 From Michelle Lawing : Q3: Are your recruitment efforts successful at recruiting the targeted populations? 12:15:57 From Michelle Lawing : Thanks for the questions, Jorge! “Only 45% of BFSs report that they are successfully recruiting underrepresented groups.” 12:16:44 From Jill Zarestky (she/her) to FLBS (J Nigon)(Privately) : Hi Jeremy, we’re going to skip breakouts and just keep everyone together. 12:16:45 From Jorge Ramos : Thanks Michelle, these are from the upcoming paper in Sci Adv? Will keep my eyes open. 12:17:06 From Jill Zarestky (she/her) : Sci Adv is the ILI mapping that Rachel presented. 12:17:25 From Jill Zarestky (she/her) : This paper is still in review, so no timeline yet. 12:17:52 From Jorge Ramos : So prolific, congrats and thanks! 12:18:06 From Hilary Swain (she/her) : Q3 of the 45% BFS successfully recruiting underrepresented groups is this true across all audiences you listed from K-12, colleges, to adults. Thank you 12:20:22 From Michelle Lawing : Great question. The 45% is in aggregate, but it would be interesting to look at that breakdown by audience type. 12:21:10 From Jorge Ramos : I have a Q about this graph again, just a quick one. 12:25:23 From Elizabeth Long (she/her) : Congrats! 12:25:35 From Hilary Swain (she/her) : Congrats on great presentation - one of the challenges is training e.g. volunteers to do higher cognitive skills outreach especially inquiry based learning. Its not just goals for our target audience it is also capacity as we rely on volunteers to do a lot of the experiential learning to cope with numbers. 12:27:39 From Rachel A Short : I think that's a great point Hilary. I've got a student working on the volunteer-specific data from our survey right now. I'm hopeful we can boost volunteers as participants and as instructors. 12:30:10 From Jorge Ramos : I have a Q but I will let others ask questions since I have asked many questions 12:30:10 From Mariana Bonfim : Any thoughts on Citizen Science as a mechanism/ pathway for outreach? 12:31:46 From Lesley Knoll : Can you speak more about the best standardized assessments to understand the impacts of field station outreach to various communities being targeted? 12:33:01 From Angie Patterson : It'd be interesting to see the context of which these programs are based....on-site vs. online vs. off-site within the community and how those differences influence successful engagement 12:33:03 From Beth Norman : Would that deep dive include assessing outcomes from the perspective of the program participants? These data are based on what the stations think happen in their programs, correct? Not what the participants think 12:33:56 From Lesley Knoll : Yes, that's what I am thinking Beth. From the perspective of the participants. Are there recommendations from the group on best practices? 12:34:46 From Elizabeth Long (she/her) : Lesley, Beth, et al.- I’ve long wanted to get some grant money to pay an evaluator to help us get at this. 12:35:18 From Caitlin Potter : We contracted with an evaluator to do this sort of assessment for our K-12 field trip programs and it was really valuable! well worth the money. 12:35:56 From Kate Terlizzi : we also collaborated with some education researchers who assessed our summer camp program for learner engagement. Really interesting stuff 12:36:28 From Lesley Knoll : Thanks Caitlin and Kate! 12:36:40 From Kerry Wininger - SSU Center for Env inquiry : I’d be interested to know how approaching a certain learning goal (i.e. interest, identity) with different learner engagement strategies results in different impact success rates 12:37:02 From Jorge Ramos : To the point of Caitlin and Kate, are there good resources on the pros and cons of internal and external evaluators for ed programs, costs, accessibility, data needed, etc? 12:37:08 From Stacy McNulty (she/her) : Caitlin and Kate, any plans to publish that data (or best practices/recommendations)? The field station community is gaining a lot from all of this research being shared! 12:38:37 From Caitlin Potter : We don’t have plans to publish the results of our assessments but do use them internally to improve our offerings. We worked with an evaluator from the local science museum, who specialized in informal science learning. we felt like we *had* to have something relatively formal to report to funders, but found it to be really broadly valuable beyond reporting. 12:38:45 From Kate Terlizzi : We presented our data at the NAAEE conference and there was a plan to publish the data in a journal, but the researcher who collected it ended up having a lot of personal stuff going on and it never happened. 12:39:38 From Caitlin Potter : we did have to go through IRB processes even for internal use 12:41:57 From Michelle Lawing : Thanks for the question, Angie. I wish we had those data. We didn’t ask if the event was on-site, in the community, or online. 12:42:52 From Angie Patterson : Thanks Michelle 12:45:01 From Elizabeth Long (she/her) : Alt-metrics are legitimate metrics! 12:45:52 From Beth Norman : Once the Virtual Field website launches and hopefully takes off, I will be including those metrics as well 12:46:01 From Elizabeth Long (she/her) : “Alt” has been used to refer to social media and other metrics not captured by typical academic citation tools 12:46:31 From Jorge Ramos : Thanks Beth and thanks for that Elizabeth! 12:46:33 From Jorge Ramos : I did not know 12:46:33 From Caitlin Potter : I am just remembering that we do have some of our science identity assessment results up in an Impact Summary sort of report aimed at partner teachers here on our website: https://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/ed/testimonials 12:46:38 From Michelle Lawing : Thanks for the question, Beth. We proposed a grant to NSF that included some assessment of outcomes from the perspective of the program participants. It wasn’t funded last round, but I think it is a next step in this research endevou. 12:48:12 From Caitlin Potter : brain always exploding, I’d say :) 12:48:24 From Caitlin Potter : (as a one-person team) 12:50:42 From Lesley Knoll : I think also what can you offer that is unique for your area 12:50:42 From Caitlin Potter : Personally, I have a vague temporal calendar: winter is in-school programs, spring and fall is field trips onsite, summer is dedicated to research tours/community festivals/birding/etc. Then I fill in with details - some citizen science programs are once a season and others are only in the summer, we prioritize lectures and webinars during times of year when we don’t have folks onsite, things like that. I lean heavily on grad students and postdocs to lead programs when I don’t personally have the time. Hope any of that is helpful! 12:50:44 From Hilary Swain (she/her) : summary data by year, by audience type in excel sheets but do get people to register online (camps, colleges, workshops, not K-12 only by teacher ) for most events so have their names in databases and know they attended (not public drop in or public field walks too difficult) 12:52:01 From Lesley Knoll : Partnering is key for me where I get to spend 5% of my time on outreach and that's it for our station! 12:52:09 From Caitlin Potter : I track metrics in a massive, out of control spreadsheet with a row for event event 12:52:12 From Caitlin Potter : *each 12:53:36 From Jorge Ramos : Gracias everyone! 12:55:02 From Kate Terlizzi : We have a reservation system and a calendar to track our visitors which gets put into a spreadsheet by year and month. We track age of students, number, activity being done, institution and some other things... 12:56:44 From Mariana Bonfim : I have to go but this was amazing thank you so much!!! 12:57:29 From Michelle Lawing : Thanks, Mariana! 12:59:56 From Jorge Ramos : Yes super talks, thank you all! Need to get lunch now before lightning talks! Rhonda, nice to meet you, are you hosting OBFS in Mexico soon? Hint hint… :-) 13:00:33 From Michelle Lawing : Thanks, Jorge! Would be amazing to have an OBFS at CICHAZ. :) 13:00:42 From Michael Stevens : Great session, thanks! 13:01:00 From Michelle Lawing : Thanks, Michael! 13:01:02 From Kerry Wininger - SSU Center for Env inquiry : Thank you all so much! 13:01:06 From Caitlin Potter : can’t wait to read the papers!! thanks for a great presentation and discussion! 13:01:15 From Joe Whittaker - Biology Faculty : thanks 13:01:21 From Matt Dykstra : Thanks! 13:01:21 From Andrew Rappe : thank you