Welcome to Project EDDIE

Project EDDIE (Environmental Data-Driven Inquiry and Exploration) is a suite of education projects composed of STEM disciplinary and educational researchers. We develop flexible classroom teaching modules using large, publicly available datasets to engage students in STEM and improve their quantitative reasoning. Teaching modules span topics such as ecology, limnology, geology, hydrology, and environmental sciences. EDDIE also helps build the associated professional development needed to ensure effective use of the teaching modules.


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  • New Grant Award: Collaborative workshop with EREN, NEON and Project EDDIE
    NSF awarded Belmont University Assistant Professor of Biology Matt Heard (Principal Investigator) with a grant from the Division of Environmental Biology. The grant, titled "Integrating large datasets into undergraduate teaching and research through a collaborative workshop with EREN, NEON and Project EDDIE" will host a series of workshops to provide training to undergraduate faculty in using large-scale ecological data to design new research projects and teaching activities that enhance understanding of environmental issues and how to manage large-scale data.
  • Project EDDIE Column in Oceanography
    Dax Soule, Project EDDIE Co-PI, authored a column on EDDIE teaching modules featured in the upcoming June issue of Oceanography.
  • Instructor story: An instructor discusses their experience adapting and implementing an EDDIE module
    Webinar: Date TBD - An important aspect of EDDIE modules are designed to be flexible and allow the adopter to adapt the module to their classroom context. This webinar will discuss an instructor's experience adopting and adapting the EDDIE Climate Change Module at CUNY Queens.
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Project EDDIE Initiatives

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EDDIE Earth and Ecosystems
Earth and Ecosystems expands the range of topics (e.g., biology, ecology, geology, hydrology, environmental science), datasets, and quantitative reasoning skills (e.g., processing, communicating, and interpreting quantitative data) through validating curricular modules and developing a community of practice to engage faculty members fostering inquiry with large datasets. Teaching modules aim to improve students' quantitative reasoning skills.


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EDDIE Macrosystems
Macrosystems ecology is the study of ecological dynamics at multiple interacting spatial and temporal scales. Our interdisciplinary team is developing flexible classroom modules that introduce undergraduate students to the core concepts of macrosystems ecology and simulation modeling through the lens of limnology.


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EDDIE Environmental Data
Our interdisciplinary team of faculty and research scientists developed flexible classroom modules that aim to expose undergraduate students to such real-world experiences. These modules utilize large, long-term, high-frequency and sensor-based datasets that can be used in a variety of introductory, mid-level, and advanced courses. Module topics include climatology, limnology, seismology, soil science, and hydrology.