TRACK 1 - Building an Academic Bridge for Success: Increasing Undergraduate Diversity in the Geosciences at UC Davis

轨道1：成功的学术桥梁：增加加州大学戴维斯分校地球科学的本科生多样性这个项目积极促进加州大学戴维斯分校地球科学的多样性。 它由三个主要组成部分组成，形成了一个综合战略，以招募，培训和指导代表性不足的学生。 目标是让代表性不足的学生进入研究生院和地球科学职业。该项目的第一部分针对代表性不足的新生和社区学院转学生。 它与现有的加州大学戴维斯分校计划相协调，旨在提高代表性不足的学生的成功，并招募少数民族进入小招生研讨会，提供针对特定主题的地球科学教育，向学生介绍研究，并提供个性化的指导。 第二个组成部分包括密集的研究经验，它沉浸在科学过程中开始本科生，并传达地球科学的相关性，以个别学生。该研究计划涉及四到七名学生和一名导师的互动，他们参与了一项积极监测普塔溪水质和沉积物的计划，该计划流经加州大学戴维斯分校植物园。 Putah Creek体验旨在教学生执行个人研究项目所需的技能，为他们提供机会，让他们有机会追求更符合自己兴趣的研究项目，并定义自己的科学问题，这些问题可以形成高级论文的基础。 该项目的第三个组成部分是一个三管齐下的、以课程为基础的辅导和咨询举措，包括两个专业技能发展课程（“建立你的专业工具箱”和“销售科学”），其目的是提高代表性不足的学生的保留率和专业发展。

Track 1: An Academic Bridge for Success: Increasing Undergraduate Diversity in the Geosciences at UC DavisThis project actively boosts diversity in the Geosciences at UC Davis. It consists of three major components that form an integrated strategy to recruit, train, and mentor underrepresented students. The goal is to get underrepresented students to enter graduate school and a geoscience career. The first component of the project targets underrepresented incoming freshman and community college transfer students. It is coordinated with existing UC Davis programs designed to enhance the success of underrepresented students, and it recruits minorities into small-enrollment seminars that provide focused geoscience education on a specific topic, introduces students to research, and provides personalized mentoring. The second component consists of an intensive research experience, which immerses beginning undergraduates in the scientific process and conveys the relevance of the geosciences to the individual student. The research program involves interaction of four to seven students and a mentor in an active monitoring program of water quality and sedimentation in Putah Creek, which flows through the UC Davis Arboretum. The Putah Creek experience is designed to teach students the skills necessary to perform individual research projects, provide them with opportunities to pursue research projects more specific to their interests, and define their own scientific questions that can form the basis of a senior thesis. The third component of the project is a three-pronged, course-based mentoring and advising initiative consisting of two professional skill development courses ('Building Your Professional Toolbox', and 'Selling Science'), the aim of which is to increase retention and professional development of underrepresented students.