Track 1: Creating a Diversity Climate Network (D-ClimNet) to enhance the climate sciences pipeline of minority students from high school to graduate levels

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。多样性气候网络（D-ClimNet）代表了佛蒙特大学（UVM）、加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）和佐治亚大学（UGA）之间的一项新的全国合作伙伴关系，旨在为未被充分代表的学生提供从高中到研究生学位的渠道。该网络的独特之处在于它专注于气候科学，并致力于培养下一代不同种族和性别的气候科学家，明确关注气候学、气候变化和气候政策。学生将从纽约市、洛杉矶和乔治亚州的农村和城市地区招募。这项为期三年的试点研究将对从九年级到研究生阶段的地球科学专业学生进行纵向跟踪，以确定气候科学专业招生和留用学生的最佳做法，许多代表性不足的学生认为气候科学不是一个可行的职业选择。除了接受气候科学学术内容外，参与的学生还将通过电子研讨会与三个校区的教师和其他学生互动，并在区域会议上展示他们的研究成果。D-ClimNet变革的一个方面是它参与了促进学生学习和学业成功所需的支持系统。这将采取周末在参与的高中举办气候日的形式，并允许高中教师参加PI的国家科学基金会资助的卫星，天气和气候计划，在那里他们将获得气候内容知识，以影响他们的课程变化。最后，四名pi中有三名是非裔美国中高级职业科学家，他们将作为导师和榜样。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Diversity Climate Network (D-ClimNet) represents a new national partnership among the University of Vermont (UVM), the University of California - Los Angles (UCLA) and the University of Georgia (UGA) to create a pipeline of under-represented students from the high school to graduate degree levels. The network is unique in its focus on the climate sciences as well as its commitment to training the next generation of racially and gender diverse climate scientists with an explicit focus on climatology, climate change, and climate policy. Students will be recruited from the rural and urban areas of New York City, Los Angeles and Georgia. The three-year pilot study will use longitudinal tracking of Earth Science students from Grade 9 through graduate studies to pinpoint best practices for student recruitment and retention in the climate sciences, which many under-represented students do not view as a viable career option. In addition to receiving climate science academic content, participating students will also interact with faculty and other students across the three campuses via electronic workshops and present their research at regional conferences. One of the transformative aspects of the D-ClimNet is its involvement of the support system needed to facilitate student learning and academic success. This will take the form of Climate Days on weekends at participating high schools as well as allowing high school teachers to participate in the PI's NSF-funded Satellites, Weather and Climate program, where they will gain climate content knowledge to effect change in their curricula. Finally, three of the four PIs are African-American mid-senior career scientists who will serve as mentors and role models.