Collaborative Reserach:Active Societal Participation in Research and Education

社会对研究和教育的积极参与(ASPIRE)旨在培养具有领导知识和技能、学术和物质支持的新一代地球科学家，以传播地球科学的社会相关性，从而扩大对这些领域的参与。拟议的项目将评估以地点为基础的科学作为增加地球科学多样性的工具的有效性。ASPIRE合作者将组织移动工作组(MWG)，该工作组将由一名学术地球科学家领导，他与当地社区合作，解决需要地球科学专业知识的问题。这些MWG领导人被称为“打开大门的人”。每个MWG将专注于与单个社区相关的单个问题，但ASPIRE将支持多个MWG在各种问题和地球科学主题上开展工作。在试点期间，ASPIRE将：1)学习已经拥有领导社区相关研究经验的地球科学家的经验和素质；2)在一年的时间里“单独和集体”支持他们作为MWG的领导人；3)从他们以前和现在的经验中确定在服务不足的社区和地球科学社区之间架起桥梁所需的那种领导力；以及4)定义和完善一个全面实施的“实体”中心所需的领导力、网络和后勤支持需求。在试点项目过程中，ASPIRE将保守地涉及来自各种地球科学机构的多达40名个人，另外还有30名或更多的参与者、支助人员和评估员。PIS假设，通过将一种新的地球科学研究模式制度化，学习领导人在MWG方面的经验，并根据调查结果完善领导力发展计划，他们将拥有一个可扩展的领导工具和组织结构，将地球科学重新塑造为具有社会相关性和包容性的不同背景的地球科学家。

Active Societal Participation In Research and Education (ASPIRE) aims to cultivate a generation of geoscientists with the leadership knowledge and skills, scholarship, and material support to communicate the social relevance of geosciences, and thereby, to broaden participation in these fields. The proposed project will evaluate the effectiveness of place-based science as a vehicle for increasing diversity in the Geoscience. The ASPIRE collaborators will organize Mobile Working Groups (MWG) that will be led by an academic geoscientist who works with a local community on issues that require an expertise in the geosciences. These MWG leaders are referred to as "gate-openers". Each MWG will focus on a single issue linked to a single community, but ASPIRE will support multiple MWGs working across a variety of issues and geoscience topics. During the pilot period, ASPIRE will: 1) learn from the experiences and qualities of geoscientists who already possess experience leading community-relevant research, 2) support them "individually and collectively" as leaders of MWGs over a period of one year, 3) identify from their prior and current experiences the sort of leadership required to bridge underserved and geoscience communities, and 4) define and refine the leadership, networking, and logistical support needs that a fully implemented "bricks and mortar" center would require. Over the course of the pilot project, ASPIRE will conservatively involve up to forty individuals from across a variety of geoscience institutions, with an additional thirty or more participants, support staff and evaluators. The PIs hypothesize that in institutionalizing a new mode of geoscience research (MWG), learning from the leaders' experiences with MWG, and refining a leadership development program based on findings, they will have a scalable leadership tool and organizational structure that will rebrand the geosciences as socially relevant and inclusive of geoscientists from diverse backgrounds.