Collaborative Research: Further Continuity and Enhancement of MPOWIR

本提案是为了进一步延续和丰富指导物理海洋学妇女增加保留（MPOWIR）计划中的活动。这是一个由社区主导的项目，旨在为年轻女性提供物理海洋学方面的指导，以提高她们在该领域的参与度。作为该计划的一部分开展的活动有助于建立一支科学劳动力队伍，其多样性与学生和美国人口的多样性更接近。实现这一目标的方法是帮助保留物理海洋学和其他地球科学学科领域的妇女。该项目于2004年启动，2007年春季首次由联邦机构全额资助，2009年又延长了期限。该计划的目标是由社区在2005年秋季的规划研讨会上确定的，其目标是：(1)提供一位年轻女性的持续指导？在她的研究生生涯中，从她的博士后生涯到她的正式工作的第一年，(2)在物理海洋学社区内建立一个集体责任，为该领域的初级女性提供指导，(3)提供各种指导资源和导师，(4)广泛传播网络以避免排他，(5)向所有自认为是物理海洋学家的人开放这个指导计划。具体地说，将进行以下的MPOWIR活动：Pattullo会议：一年两次的会议，聚集了大约25名初级女性物理海洋学家和12名高级物理海洋学家，包括男性和女性，为期2.5天的会议重点是基于学科的指导。指导小组：大约由6名初级女性和2名高级女性物理海洋学家组成的小组每月通过电话会议举行会议，以进行保密的个性化指导。MPOWIR网站：该网站是指导和物理海洋学职业的资源库。数据库和调查：定期进行调查，以评估MPOWIR活动的有效性，确定社区指导需求，并评估保留方面的进展。市政厅会议和网络：海洋科学会议的活动促进了物理海洋学家之间的网络交流，并为初级科学家提供了职业发展信息。网站和市政厅会议对所有人开放，并非常重视通过网站提供材料，以确保性别中立。将通过与地球科学妇女网络的联系，并通过季刊通讯，努力向其他学科和机构输出MPOWIR模式。社交媒体将用于宣传MPOWIR的活动，公告和事件。这项工作的重点是将妇女留在物理海洋学领域，这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，计划中的活动旨在阻止物理海洋学领域以及其他地球科学学科的智力资本的流失。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This proposal is for further continuation and enrichment of activities within the Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention (MPOWIR) program. This is a community-led program aiming at providing mentoring to junior women in physical oceanography to improve their retention in the field. The activities carried out as part of the program contribute to the creation of a scientific workforce whose diversity more closely matches that of the student and of the U.S. population. This is achieved by aiding the retention of women in the field of physical oceanography and other geoscience disciplines. The program was initiated in 2004, it was first fully funded by federal agencies in the spring of 2007, and then renewed in 2009. The objectives of the program, as determined by the community in a planning workshop in the fall of 2005, are to: (1) provide continuity of mentoring from a young woman?s graduate career, through her postdoctoral years to the first years of her permanent job, (2) establish a collective responsibility within the physical oceanography community for the mentoring of junior women in the field, (3) provide a variety of mentoring resources and mentors, (4) cast a wide net to avoid exclusiveness, and (5) open this mentoring program to all those who self-identify as a physical oceanographer. Specifically, the following MPOWIR activities will be carried out:1.Pattullo conference: A biannual conference that brings together about 25 junior women physical oceanographers, and 12 senior physical oceanographers, both male and female, for a 2.5-day meeting focused on discipline-based mentoring.2.Mentoring groups: Groups of approximately 6 junior women and 2 senior women physical oceanographers meet monthly through a teleconference, for 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 networking: 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 great emphasis is 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 quarterly newsletter. Social media will be used to publicize MPOWIR activities, announcement and events. This work, 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, the planned activities seek to stem the loss of intellectual capital for the physical oceanographic field, as well as other geoscience disciplines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.