Broadening Participation in Coastal and Estuarine Sciences: A Workshop of the 25th Biennial Conference of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation; Mobile, AL - November 2019

I.海岸和河口研究联合会（CERF）已明确表示充分的组织承诺，以扩大对海岸和河口科学的参与。CERF制定了Rising Tides（走向包容，多样和丰富的社会）作为一个全面的计划，以提高我们的科学社会和CERF会议的多样性和包容性。该计划的总体目标是促进所有代表性不足和服务不足的少数群体的机会，同时培养一种积极参与和利用整个组织多样性的文化。涨潮有意肯定和促进各种形式的多样性的价值，包括种族和民族背景，性别，性取向，国籍和身体能力的个人之间的差异。广泛参与科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）被广泛认为是科学和工程企业的关键。URM个人与白人和亚洲人之间的美国STEM教育程度仍然存在很大差距，沿海和河口科学在URM代表性方面也面临着类似的差距。认识到这一差距，并强调基金社区支持和解决所有成员个人需求的方式发生根本性变化，基金将在2019年11月举行的2019年双年度会议上寻求资金，以支持多样性和包容性工作。具体而言，这些努力包括：（1）在两个会议周期内加强城市资源管理学生的专业发展，包括建立群体、提供指导和参加以城市资源管理为重点的讲习班、科学会议和其他会议活动;（2）通过向所有与会者开放的讲习班和在整个会议期间提供更多的学习机会，建设应急基金实现城市资源管理倡议目标的能力;以及（3）通过在整个会议期间注入DEI，确保CERF社区的广泛参与。该奖项反映了NSF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。

I. The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) has articulated full organizational commitment to broadening participation in coastal and estuarine science. CERF developed Rising TIDES (Toward an Inclusive, Diverse, and Enriched Society) as a comprehensive program for enhancing the diversity and inclusion of our scientific society and CERF conferences. The overall goals of this program are to promote opportunities for all underrepresented and underserved minorities while cultivating a culture that actively engages and leverages diversity throughout our organization. Rising TIDES intentionally affirms and promotes the value of diversity in all forms, including differences among individuals in racial and ethnic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, nationalities, and physical abilities.II. Broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is widely recognized as critical to the science and engineering enterprise. There is still a wide gap in U.S. STEM educational attainment between URM individuals and whites and Asians, and coastal and estuarine science faces similar gaps in URM representation. In recognition of this gap and to incorporatefundamental change in the way the CERF community supports and addresses the individual needs of all members, CERF seeks funding to support diversity and inclusion efforts at its 2019 Biennial Conference in November 2019. Specifically, these efforts include: (1) enhance URM student professional development throughout a two-conference cycle, including cohort building, mentoring, and participationin a URM-focused workshop, scientific sessions, and other conference activities; (2) build the capacity of CERF to achieve DEI objectives through a workshop open to all attendees, and through additional learning opportunities throughout the conference; and (3) ensure broad engagement of the CERF community by infusing DEI throughout the conference.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.