Workshop: Broadening Participation in the Biodiversisty Sciences: Three Workshops for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

这一行动资助了为本科生和研究生举办的三个区域讲习班，其最终目标是在生物领域培养一支多样化的劳动力队伍，严重缺乏来自任职人数不足群体的参与者和领导人。这些领域包括古生物学和生物、进化和环境生物学。这些领域加在一起可以被视为生物多样性研究社区，他们有望得到NSF资助的推进生物多样性集合数字化的国家资源(ADBC)的服务。通过亚行，数以百万计的生物标本的数据和图像以电子格式向研究界、政府机构、学生、教育工作者和公众提供。来自代表性不足群体的科学家缺乏对这一活动的参与，这是讲习班在学生做出职业选择时接触到他们的动力。ADBC的愿景是建立一个永久的数据库，存储美国所有生物收藏的数字化信息，通过研究带来新的发现，并通过改善教育和宣传来更好地理解和欣赏生物多样性，这将导致改善环境和经济政策。这些讲习班有望扩大对这一正在进行的国家研究资源的参与。

This action funds three regional workshops for undergraduate and graduate students with the ultimate goal of developing a diversified workforce in fields of biology severely devoid of participants and leaders from under-represented groups. These fields include paleobiology and organismal, evolutionary and environmental biology. These fields taken together can be viewed as the biodiversity research community who are expected to be served by the NSF-funded National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC). Through ADBC, data and images for millions of biological specimens are being made available in electronic format for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public. Lack of participation by scientists from under-represented groups in this activity is the impetus for the workshops to reach students as they make their career choices. The vision for ADBC is a permanent database of digitized information from all biological collections in the U.S. that will lead to new discoveries through research and better understanding and appreciation of biodiversity through improved education and outreach, which will result in improved environmental and economic policies. These workshops promise to broaden participation in this ongoing national research resource.