ESA SEEDS: Exploring Science and Careers in Ecology

ESA SEED：探索生态科学和职业奖的目标是：a)增加未被充分代表的大学生对生态领域和生态职业的接触；b)促进在研究、政策、交流、推广和领导中使用不同的生态知识；以及c)培养学生作为科学家的认同感和对科学界的归属感。该奖项将使用一种强有力的方法来定位、支持和指导生态科学领域的不同人才。为了实现这一目标，欧空局将组织和支持不同的本科生参加一年一度的生态实地考察和领导会议，并前往欧空局生态会议介绍他们的研究。为代表不足的少数族裔研究生设计的年度研讨会将解决研究生课程中一直存在的空白的关键研究技能。这些差距包括数据编码、数据管理和分析、跨学科方法或翻译科学。拟议的讲习班和活动旨在提供个人互动，有助于加深参与者作为科学家的认同感和有效性。通过密集的参与和广泛的网络，该奖项将招募和留住代表劳动力中所有种族和民族的生态科学家和专业人员。增加生态领域的种族和民族多样性对于培养一支准备对威胁生态系统的严重问题作出反应，同时让不同社区和我们社会各级的决策者参与的劳动力队伍至关重要。通过校园活动参与者的努力、关于科学在社会中的相关性的全国性对话以及研究生对科学文献的贡献，该项目处于有利地位，能够接触到更多不同的人和社区。该奖项将根据其变革理论中的三个组成部分来评估成功：明确的社会情感和对文化反应的指导；了解基于职业发展理论的职业信息如何流动：社会认知职业理论、社会资本理论、社会和资源理论；以及由学科协会支持的职业认同和社区。这一奖项将有助于这三个要素如何相互交织及其对学生职业发展的短期和长期影响的文献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The goal of ESA SEEDS: Exploring Science and Careers in Ecology award is to a) Increase exposure of underrepresented college students to the field of ecology and to careers in ecology; b) Promote the use of diverse ecological knowledge in research, policy, communication, outreach and leadership; and c) Develop students' sense of identification as scientists and belonging to the scientific community. This award will use a robust approach to the orientation, support and mentoring of diverse talent in the ecological sciences. To accomplish this, ESA will organize and support diverse undergraduate students to attend the annual ecological fieldtrips and leadership meetings and travel to the ESA ecological conference to present their research. An annual workshop designed for underrepresented minority graduate students will address critical research skills that have been gaps in graduate programs. These gaps include data coding, data management and analysis, interdisciplinary approaches or translational science.The proposed workshops and activities aim to provide the personal interactions that serve to deepen participants' sense of identity and efficacy as scientists. Through intensive engagement and extended networking, this award will recruit and retain ecological scientists and professionals representing all racial and ethnic groups in the workforce. Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the ecological field is critical to developing a workforce that is prepared to be responsive to the serious issues threatening ecological systems while involving diverse communities and decision-makers at all levels of our society. This project is well-positioned to reach many more diverse people and communities through the efforts of participants in campus activities, national conversations about the relevance of science in society and contributions by graduate students to the scientific literature. The award will evaluate success based on three components in its theory of change: explicit socioemotional and culturally responsive mentoring; understanding how career information flows based on career development theories: social cognitive career theory, social capital theory, social and resources theory; and professional identity and community supported by a disciplinary society. This award will contribute to the literature on how these three elements are interwoven and their short and long term impacts on students' professional development.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.