Collaborative Research: Continuation and Enhancement of MPOWIR

概述：MPOWIR（指导物理海洋学妇女以增加保留）是一个社区主导的计划，旨在为物理海洋学的初级妇女提供指导，以提高她们在该领域的保留率。2004年启动的MPOWIR活动于2007年正式启动。社区在2005年规划研讨会上确定的方案目标是：（1）从年轻妇女的研究生生涯开始，通过她的博士后生涯到她长期工作的头几年，提供连续的指导，（2）在物理海洋学界建立一种集体责任，指导该领域的年轻妇女，（3）提供各种指导资源和各种问题的导师，（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一指导计划。智力优势：MPOWIR方案通过其注重在物理海洋学领域留住妇女，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，该项目旨在通过以下活动阻止物理海洋学领域以及其他地球科学学科的智力资本损失：1. Pattullo会议：这个两年一度的会议汇集了大约25名初级女性物理海洋学家，以及12名高级物理海洋学家，男性和女性，为期2.5天的会议，重点是基于学科的指导。大约6名初级女性和2名高级女性物理海洋学家每月举行一次电话会议，目的是进行保密的个性化辅导。3. MPOWIR网站：该网站是辅导和物理海洋学职业的资源库。4.数据库和调查：定期进行调查，以评估MPOWIR活动的有效性，确定社区辅导需求，并评估保留方面的进展。海洋科学会议上的活动促进了物理海洋学家之间的网络联系，并为初级科学家提供职业发展信息。网站和全体会议向所有人开放，将更加重视通过网站提供材料，以确保不分性别的利益。将通过与地球科学妇女网络的联系和新的季度通讯，努力将MPOWIR模型输出到其他学科和机构。社会媒体将用于宣传MPOWIR活动、公告和事件。更广泛的影响：这项拟议的工作有助于努力创造一个科学劳动力，其多样性更接近于学生人口和美国人口作为一个整体，通过帮助保留妇女在物理海洋学和其他地球科学学科领域。

Overview: 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, MPOWIR activities started in earnest in 2007. The objectives of the program, as determined by the community in the 2005 planning workshop are: (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. Intellectual Merit: The MPOWIR program, 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 project seeks to stem the loss of intellectual capital for the physical oceanographic field, as well as other geoscience disciplines through the following activities:1.Pattullo conference: This biannual conference brings together about 25 junior women physical oceanographers, together with 12 senior physical oceanographers, both male and female, for a 2.5 day meeting focused on discipline-based mentoring.2.Mentoring groups: Groups of about 6 junior women and 2 senior women physical oceanographers meet for a monthly teleconference, for the purpose of confidential, personalized mentoring.3.MPOWIR website: The website serves as a repository of resources for mentoring and physical oceanography careers.4.Databases and surveys: Regular surveys are conducted to assess the effectiveness of MPOWIR activities, determine community mentoring needs, and evaluate progress in retention.5.Town Hall meetings and socials: Events at the Ocean Sciences meeting facilitate networking between physical oceanographers and provide career development information to junior scientists. The website and town hall meetings are open to all, and greater emphasis will be placed on making material available via the website, to ensure a gender-neutral benefit. Efforts to export the MPOWIR model to other disciplines and institutions will be undertaken via links with the Earth Science Women's Network, and through a new quarterly newsletter. Social media will be used to publicize MPOWIR activities, announcement and events.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 geoscience disciplines.