GP-IMPACT: Career paths for urban geoscientists: recruitment, retention, and apprenticeship

GP-IMPACT:城市地球科学家的职业道路:招聘、保留和学徒

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    1600233
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 35.88万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2016
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2016-09-01 至 2020-08-31
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

The growing demand for geoscientists must be met by increasing recruitment and retention. Given the steady U.S. population migration to urban centers, recruits will increasingly need to come from students who were raised in cities. The issues involved with recruiting urban geoscientists closely parallel those for recruiting from underrepresented groups. Many students and their families are unaware of the growing opportunities in the geosciences for careers that use advanced technology to solve some of the most challenging problems facing society. Urban geoscientists work on a wide range of local problems including waste management, flood control, beach nourishment, transportation infrastructure, land subsidence, and the environmental impact of "fracking." To increase the size and diversity of the geoscience workforce and keep pace with demand in the 21st century, this project is testing new strategies, assessing what works, and sharing the model of an urban geoscience learning community with other universities. New strategies include: developing materials highlighting career opportunities in urban geoscience, peer coaching in mathematics to assist students transitioning into science from other disciplines, and student apprenticeships to boost employment opportunities. The Career Paths for Urban Geoscientists initiative includes three main components. First, student recruitment is focused on developing career information for students and their parents to overcome misconceptions about opportunities. This information is being provided to prospective students during visits to the university, in general education and introductory-level courses in the department, and to the Alliance for Minority Participation on campus. In addition to career information, service learning modules are being included in general education classes to inform students about applications for their new geology skills. Second, the Urban Geoscientists initiative is focusing on retention of new majors through a math-mentoring program. Math requirements are often a serious obstacle for students switching from non-science majors, and a reason many drop out of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors. The Math Partners program is pairing junior and senior geology and environmental science majors who have completed at least one semester of calculus as mentors for newly recruited majors. New students are benefiting from one-on-one coaching by majors who have experienced their struggles and who can help them grasp the increasingly important connections between quantitative skills and careers in the geosciences. The mentors reinforce their own understanding of mathematics through teaching. Working together also promotes camaraderie within the major. The third component of the project is focused on enhancing Career Paths for Urban Geoscientists through apprenticeship that prepare them for the workforce. This includes a new certificate program that teaches job skills, internship opportunities with local companies, and undergraduate research experiences working with graduate students and faculty. The creation of learning communities of urban geoscientists involving alumni, faculty, undergraduate students, and graduate students in both science and education strengthens the initiative and is an explicit goal of this project. Assessment tools are being employed to determine the efficacy and timing of intervention. Outcomes such as an increase in majors, fewer repeated math courses, and retention in STEM are being assessed by demographic groupings. Using Temple University as a model of urban geosciences, the findings of this project are expected to be important for nation-wide recruiting through application at other universities striving to recruit and retain students from diverse backgrounds and prepare them for successful geoscience careers.
对地球科学家日益增长的需求必须通过增加招聘和留用来满足。鉴于美国人口向城市中心的稳定迁移,招聘人员将越来越需要来自在城市长大的学生。招募城市地球科学家所涉及的问题与从代表性不足的群体中招募地球科学家的问题非常相似。许多学生和他们的家人都没有意识到,在地球科学领域,利用先进的技术来解决社会面临的一些最具挑战性的问题的职业机会越来越多。城市地球科学家研究范围广泛的当地问题,包括废物管理、洪水控制、海滩营养、交通基础设施、地面沉降以及“水力压裂”对环境的影响。为了增加地球科学工作人员的规模和多样性,跟上21世纪的需求,该项目正在测试新的战略,评估哪些有效,并与其他大学分享城市地球科学学习社区的模式。新的战略包括:编写突出城市地球科学领域就业机会的材料,在数学方面进行同伴辅导,帮助学生从其他学科过渡到科学领域,以及开展学生学徒制,以增加就业机会。城市地球科学家的职业道路倡议包括三个主要部分。首先,学生招聘的重点是为学生和家长提供职业信息,以克服对机会的误解。在访问大学期间,在该系的普通教育和入门级课程中,以及在校园向少数民族参与联盟提供这些资料。除了职业信息外,服务学习模块也被纳入通识教育课程,以告知学生他们的新地质学技能的应用。其次,“城市地球科学家”计划通过数学指导计划,致力于留住新专业的学生。数学要求往往是学生从非科学专业转专业的一个严重障碍,也是许多人退出科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)专业的一个原因。数学伙伴计划将完成至少一个学期微积分课程的地质学和环境科学专业的大三和大四学生配对,作为新招收的专业的导师。新生正受益于专业人士的一对一指导,这些专业人士曾经历过他们的挣扎,可以帮助他们掌握定量技能与地球科学职业之间日益重要的联系。导师们通过教学来加强自己对数学的理解。一起工作也促进了专业内部的同志情谊。该项目的第三个组成部分侧重于通过学徒制提高城市地球科学家的职业道路,使他们为劳动力做好准备。这包括一个新的证书课程,教授工作技能,在当地公司实习的机会,以及与研究生和教师一起工作的本科生研究经验。创建城市地球科学家的学习社区,包括校友、教师、本科生和科学和教育领域的研究生,这加强了这项倡议,也是该项目的一个明确目标。正在使用评估工具来确定干预的效果和时机。诸如专业增加、重复的数学课程减少以及STEM的保留等结果正在通过人口分组进行评估。该项目将天普大学作为城市地球科学的典范,其研究结果有望对其他大学在全国范围内通过申请招聘和留住来自不同背景的学生,并为成功的地球科学职业做好准备的大学起到重要作用。

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Laura Toran其他文献

Advancing equitable health and well-being across urban–rural sustainable infrastructure systems
促进城乡可持续基础设施系统的公平健康和福祉
  • DOI:
  • 发表时间:
    2021
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    H. Pearsall;V. Gutierrez;Melissa R. Gilbert;S. Hoque;H. Eakin;Eduardo S Brondízio;W. Solecki;Laura Toran;Jennifer Baka;J. Behm;Christa M. Brelsford;C. Hinrichs;Kevin A. Henry;J. Mennis;Lara A. Roman;Christina Rosan;Eugenia C South;Rachel D. Valletta
  • 通讯作者:
    Rachel D. Valletta
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Road Salt in a Highway Bioswale: A Comparison of Point and Continuous Monitoring Methods
  • DOI:
    10.1007/s11270-025-08281-8
  • 发表时间:
    2025-07-04
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    3.000
  • 作者:
    Gina Ginevra Pope;Laura Toran;Joshua S. Caplan;Jonathan Nyquist
  • 通讯作者:
    Jonathan Nyquist
emIn situ/em monitoring of internal water storage reveals nitrogen first flush phenomena, intermittent denitrification, and seasonal ammonium flushing
原位监测内部储水揭示了氮的首次冲刷现象、间歇反硝化作用和季节性铵冲刷。
  • DOI:
    10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117957
  • 发表时间:
    2023-09-01
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    8.400
  • 作者:
    Adrienne G. Donaghue;Naomi Morgan;Laura Toran;Erica R. McKenzie
  • 通讯作者:
    Erica R. McKenzie
Characterizing snowmelt anomalies in hydrochemographs of a karst spring, Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania (USA): evidence for multiple recharge pathways
  • DOI:
    10.1007/s12665-013-2935-5
  • 发表时间:
    2013-11-19
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    2.800
  • 作者:
    Chad E. Reisch;Laura Toran
  • 通讯作者:
    Laura Toran
Quantifying stream-loss recovery in a spring using dual-tracer injections in the Snake Creek drainage, Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA
  • DOI:
    10.1007/s10040-023-02619-4
  • 发表时间:
    2023-03-17
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    2.300
  • 作者:
    C. Eric Humphrey;Philip M. Gardner;Lawrence E. Spangler;Nora C. Nelson;Laura Toran;D. Kip Solomon
  • 通讯作者:
    D. Kip Solomon

Laura Toran的其他文献

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{{ truncateString('Laura Toran', 18)}}的其他基金

Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Urban Critical Zone processes along the Piedmont-Coastal Plain transition
合作研究:网络集群:沿山麓-沿海平原过渡的城市关键区过程
  • 批准号:
    2011617
  • 财政年份:
    2020
  • 资助金额:
    $ 35.88万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
Collaborative Research: A new classification system for karst springs using storm hysteresis
合作研究:利用风暴磁滞的岩溶泉水新分类系统
  • 批准号:
    1417447
  • 财政年份:
    2014
  • 资助金额:
    $ 35.88万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Mapping Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Lake Seepage
绘制湖泊渗流的时空异质性图
  • 批准号:
    0609827
  • 财政年份:
    2006
  • 资助金额:
    $ 35.88万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
Geophysical Monitoring of Groundwater-Lake Interactions
地下水-湖泊相互作用的地球物理监测
  • 批准号:
    0509853
  • 财政年份:
    2005
  • 资助金额:
    $ 35.88万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Collaborative Research: Suspended Sediment Transport in Karst
合作研究:喀斯特悬浮沉积物输送
  • 批准号:
    0125601
  • 财政年份:
    2002
  • 资助金额:
    $ 35.88万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant

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