Continuation and enhancement of the MPOWIR program

MPOWIR（指导物理海洋学妇女提高保留率）是一个社区主导的项目，旨在为初级妇女提供物理海洋学方面的指导，以提高她们在该领域的保留率。自2004年启动以来，MPOWIR项目一直在全面开展，努力实现2005年秋季社区在规划研讨会上确定的项目目标：(1)为年轻女性的研究生生涯提供连续性的指导，从她的博士后生涯到她的正式工作的第一年；(2)在物理海洋学社区内建立一个集体责任，为该领域的初级女性提供指导；(3)为各种问题提供各种指导资源和导师。(4)广泛撒网，避免排他性；(5)向所有自认为是物理海洋学家的人开放这个指导计划。这项建议是为了继续和丰富妇女权力方案的活动。具体地说，将继续和扩大下列国别权力调查活动：Pattullo会议：该会议是MPOWIR工作的核心，旨在为年轻女性提供发展研究项目的建议；与同行和资深科学家建立社区；让资深科学家了解年轻女性的文化和关心的问题。MPOWIR网站：该网站是MPOWIR活动信息的中心，旨在为所有物理海洋学家提供指导机会，不分性别。数据库和调查：数据收集和调查用于建立保留率统计数字，并定量评估和跟踪妇女权利调查活动的影响。指导小组：这些小组在更小、更亲密的基础上提供同伴和传统的指导。市政厅会议和社交活动：这些活动促进了物理海洋学家之间的联系，并为初级科学家提供了职业发展信息。此外，MPOWIR方案的覆盖范围将扩大，增加三个新的要素：越来越重视性别中立的指导；发展可在各机构和大学举办的指导讲习班；重点是将这个项目推广到其他以学科为基础的社区。智力优势：这项拟议的活动的重点是将妇女留在物理海洋学领域，这将使供资机构和大学对女学生教育的投资进一步资本化。从本质上讲，这项拟议的工作旨在阻止物理海洋学领域以及其他地球科学学科的智力资本的流失。更广泛的影响：这项提议的工作有助于努力创造一支科学劳动力队伍，其多样性更接近于学生人口和美国整体人口的多样性，通过帮助保留物理海洋学和其他地球科学学科领域的女性。

MPOWIR (Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention) is a community-led program aimed at providing mentoring to junior women in physical oceanography in order to improve their retention in the field. Initiated in 2004, the MPOWIR program has been in full gear, working on the objectives of the program, as determined by the community in a planning workshop in the fall of 2005: (1) to provide continuity of mentoring from a young woman's graduate career, through her postdoctoral years to the first years of her permanent job, (2) to establish a collective responsibility within the physical oceanography community for the mentoring of junior women in the field, (3) to provide a variety of mentoring resources and mentors on a variety of issues, (4) to cast a wide net to avoid exclusiveness and (5) to open this mentoring program to all those who self-identify as a physical oceanographer. This proposal is for the continuation and enrichment of MPOWIR activities. Specifically, the following MPOWIR activities will be continued and expanded:1. The Pattullo Conference: The centerpiece of the MPOWIR effort, this conference aims to provide advice to junior women on developing their research programs; build community with peers and senior scientists; and expose senior scientists to the culture and concerns of junior women.2. MPOWIR website: This website is the central place for information on MPOWIR activities and is intended to provide mentoring opportunities to all physical oceanographers regardless of gender.3. Databases and surveys: Data collection and surveys are used to establish retention statistics and to quantitatively assess and track the impact of MPOWIR activities.4. Mentoring groups: These groups provide both peer and traditional mentoring on a smaller, more intimate basis.5. Town Hall meetings and socials: These events facilitate networking between physical oceanographers and provide career development information to junior scientists.Additionally, the reach of the MPOWIR program will be broadened by adding three new elements: an increasing focus on gender-neutral mentoring; development of a mentoring workshop that can be conducted at institutions and universities; and a focus on exporting this program to other discipline-based communities.Intellectual Merit: This proposed activity, through its focus on the retention of women in the field of physical oceanography, will allow further capitalization on the investment the funding agencies and universities have made on the education of women students. Essentially, this proposed work seeks to stem the loss of intellectual capital for the physical oceanographic field, as well as other Geosciences disciplines.Broader Impacts: This proposed work aids efforts to create a scientific workforce whose diversity more closely matches that of the student population and that of the U.S. population as a whole, by aiding the retention of women in the field of physical oceanography and other Geosciences disciplines.