Recruiting and Training the Next Generation of Geoscientists: Geosciences Diversity Enhancement Program (GDEP) Track 2

地球科学多样性增强计划（GDEP）轨道2项目扩展了一个成功的，创新的合作伙伴关系（GDEP 2002-04），招募和指导学生从代表性不足的群体进入地质，自然地理和考古学科的研究和教育计划。GDEP轨道2建立在来自CSULB地质学，地理学，地质考古学和环境科学学科的16名教师之间异常强大的校际和跨学科活动的基础上，为全面，综合的地球科学计划创建了一个工作原型，其中包括来自两所大学四个部门的教师。该项目利用与高中（卡布里洛，莱克伍德，长滩理工学院，密立根和威尔逊）和社区学院（喜瑞都，康普顿，埃尔卡米诺，长滩市，橙子海岸，马鞍峰和圣莫尼卡），将促进教育和地球科学的职业创新和成熟的合作伙伴关系。来自CSULB的教师导师正在实施一项指导夏季研究项目，社区外展实地考察和研讨会，课堂参观和公共/私营部门实习计划。目标人群将进入并通过课堂接触，重点实地研究和支持实习的GDEP轨道2网络流动，而更多的学生及其家庭，以及路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）的学生，将通过课堂参观，研讨会和社区外展实地考察接触地球科学。通过合作伙伴关系，CSULB将利用其科学和教育资源，吸引，留住和更好地准备本科生在地球科学的机会。GDEP轨道2建立了一个网络和模型，以改变社区的文化，并促进对地球科学学科及其潜力的认识。

The Geosciences Diversity Enhancement Program (GDEP) Track 2 project extends a successful, innovative partnership (GDEP 2002-04) to recruit and mentor students from underrepresented groups into research and education programs in the geologic, physical geographic, and archaeologic disciplines. GDEP Track 2 builds on unusually strong inter-college and interdisciplinary activities among sixteen faculty members from CSULB''s geology, geography, geoarchaeology and environmental science disciplines to create a working prototype for a comprehensive, integrated geoscience program that includes faculty from four departments in two colleges. The project utilizes an innovative and proven collaborative partnership with high schools (Cabrillo, Lakewood, Long Beach Polytechnic, Millikan, and Wilson) and community colleges (Cerritos, Compton, El Camino, Long Beach City, Orange Coast, Saddleback, and Santa Monica) that will promote education and careers in the geosciences. Faculty mentors from CSULB are implementing a program of mentored summer research projects, community outreach field trips and workshops, classroom visits and public/private sector internships. A target population will enter and flow through the GDEP-Track 2 network of classroom exposure, focused field research and supported internships while a larger number of students and their families, as well as Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) students, will be exposed to the geosciences through classroom visits, workshops, and community outreach field trips. Through partnerships, CSULB will leverage its scientific and educational resources to attract, retain, and better prepare undergraduate students for opportunities in the geosciences. GDEP Track 2 establishes a network and model to change the culture of the community and to foster awareness of the geoscience disciplines and their potential.