Acknowledgements
We thank the students and instructors who tested Macrosystems EDDIE
ecological forecasting modules, especially Kait Farrell, Matt Hipsey,
Leah Johnson, Nick Record, and Kiyoko Yokota. We also thank the Virginia
Tech Reservoir Group and our undergraduate focus groups for their
feedback, especially Caroline Bryant, Arpita Das, George Haynie, Ryan
Keverline, Michael Kricheldorf, Rose Thai, Evelyn Tipper, and Jacob
Wynne. We thank Monica Bruckner, Ashley Carlson, Kristin O’Connell, and
Cailin Huyck Orr at the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton
College for administrative assistance with module testing. All module
testing and assessment was conducted following approved Institutional
Review Board (IRB) protocols (Virginia Tech IRB 19-669 and Carleton
College IRB 19-20 065). This work was funded by NSF DEB-1926050,
DBI-1933016, and EF-2318861.