GP-IMPACT: Collaborative Research: Geoscientist Development (GEODE): Recruiting and Engaging the future Geoscience workforce

地球科学发展(GEODE)计划：招募和聘用未来的地球科学劳动力是一个旨在吸引加利福尼亚州河滨县的高中生和社区大学生进入地球科学专业和职业生涯的计划。该项目代表了加州大学河滨分校(UCR)、河滨社区学院(RCC)和河滨联合学区(RUSD)之间的合作，并为该地区更多的社区学院和公立学校提供了参与机会。美国地球科学研究所预测，除非提高招聘率，否则到2020年，地球科学劳动力可能面临约13.5万人的缺口。Geode计划通过将招聘重点放在那些在地球科学中历来代表性不足的社区，从而代表着未开发的智力资本池，来解决这一潜在的短缺问题。河滨县位于南加州洛杉矶县以东，人口稠密(230万)，高度多样化(47.4%的西班牙裔)，拥有广泛的地球科学职业机会，因此是招募新地球科学家的理想地区。地理编码计划有两个目标：(1)创建一系列计划，旨在增加地球科学中未被充分代表的少数族裔学生的数量，并成功地将他们带入地球科学劳动力大军，以及(2)测试这些计划的有效性，以确定哪些计划应该用来增加从其他地区和其他机构代表性不足的少数民族中招募和留住新的地球科学家。Geode计划通过提高对地球科学职业机会的认识，并通过三个关键的教育节点改善学生的过渡：(1)从高中到大学(2年制和4年制)，(2)从社区学院到大学，以及(3)从大学到劳动力，从而增加对高度多样化和有学术准备的劳动力的招聘和留住。在每一个关键时刻，Geode计划都在为学生创造机会，让他们通过大量的实地和研究经验接触到自然世界的奇观。该计划还为学生提供导师、学术支持和职业发展计划，以确保留住和成功。通过利用UCR为来自代表人数不足的背景的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学生提供的现有支持计划的成功，Geode计划正在其合作机构中创建一个地球科学网络。

The Geoscientist Development (GEODE) Program: Recruiting and Engaging the Future Geoscience Workforce is a program designed to draw high school and community college students in Riverside County, CA into geoscience majors and careers. This program represents a collaboration between the University of California, Riverside (UCR), Riverside Community College (RCC), and the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD), with engagement opportunities for additional community colleges and public school districts in the region. The American Geosciences Institute predicts that the geoscience workforce faces a potential shortfall of ~135,000 by the year 2020 unless recruitment rates are improved. The GEODE Program addresses this potential shortfall by focusing recruitment on communities that are historically underrepresented in the geosciences and thus represent an untapped pool of intellectual capital. Riverside County, located east of Los Angeles County in Southern California, is densely populated (2.3 million), highly diverse (47.4% Hispanic), and home to a wide range of geoscience career opportunities, and is therefore an ideal region in which to recruit new geoscientists.The GEODE Program has two goals: (1) To create a range of programs designed to increase the number of underrepresented minority students in the geosciences and successfully usher them into the geoscience workforce, and (2) To test the efficacy of these programs in order to determine which programs should be used to increase recruitment and retention of new geoscientists from underrepresented minorities in other regions and by other institutions. The GEODE Program is increasing the recruitment and retention of a highly diverse and academically prepared workforce by increasing awareness of career opportunities in the geosciences and improving students' transitions through three critical educational junctures: (1) High School to College (2-Year and 4-Year), (2) Community College to University, and (3) University to Workforce. At each critical juncture, the GEODE Program is creating opportunities for students to be exposed to the wonders of the natural world through a multitude of field and research experiences. The program also provides students with mentors, academic support and professional development programs to ensure retention and success. By leveraging the success of existing support programs at UCR for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students from underrepresented backgrounds, the GEODE Program is creating a geoscience network throughout its collaborating institutions.