NSF INCLUDES: Supporting Emerging Aquatic Scientists (SEAS) Islands Alliance

NSF 包括： 支持新兴水生科学家 (SEAS) 岛屿联盟

• 批准号: 1930991
• 负责人: Kristin Wilson Grimes
• 金额: $ 331.3万
• 依托单位: University of The Virgin Islands
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930991&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Supporting; Emerging; Aquatic

Individuals from underrepresented and underserved groups comprise a disproportionately smaller percentage of STEM degrees and jobs compared to their percentages in the U.S. population. This is especially true in the geosciences where a mere 8% of the geoscience-related workforce is comprised of individuals from underserved and underrepresented minority groups. Island students have the potential to close this gap, especially if they are trained through culturally-relevant and place-based pathways programs. The NSF INCLUDES Islands Alliance will use a collective impact approach to: (1) build upon two successful NSF INCLUDES Design & Development Launch Pilots (DDLPs) in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam to establish a national network focused on coastal geoscience pathways in seven U.S. or U.S.-affiliated island jurisdictions (U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands) (2) empower youth, undergraduates, graduates, and post-graduate adults within the network through scientific and professional development trainings, mentorship, family support programs, and cohort-building activities to pursue their interests in the marine and environmental sciences, (3) connect partner organizations and individuals to each other and to additional resources, expertise, and mentors, through the creation of new island networks supported by the Islands Alliance Backbone Organization and Steering Committee, and (4) grow the larger NSF INCLUDES community by engaging with other INCLUDES DDLPs, Alliances, the NSF INCLUDES Coordination Hub, two professional societies (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation, and the National Sea Grant College Program Network. Through a collective impact approach, the Islands Alliance will provide important new insights into how two aspects of identity construction (individual science identities and collective identities) affect student self-efficacy, interest, engagement, sense of belonging, and persistence in STEM. The ways that pathway and student development vary across different cultural settings and contexts will also be investigated. This is one of the first coordinated, collaborative efforts of it's kind envisaged to connect and include these underrepresented and underserved islands students in the nation's STEM enterprise. Significant future gains stand to be realized by this investment both for participants and national efforts to broaden participation in STEM. Inclusion of nuanced cultural expertise from diverse underrepresented minority (URM) and underserved populations is needed to broaden participation in the geosciences, including those living in U.S. territories and U.S.-affiliated islands. Island regions are strongly connected to the oceans that surround them and are among the country's most diverse communities with either majority or sizable populations who are URM in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Even so, few projects have attempted to collaborate with these communities to broaden participation of the STEM workforce. Over five years, the Islands Alliance will support 425 middle and high school students in summer & school year geoscience enrichment programs; 90 undergraduate students in early-career research and career experiences; 45 upper-level undergraduate and/or Masters students in an 8-week summer intensive Bridge to Graduate School Program; 20 Bridge Program students who will receive graduate training at partnering institutions (M.S. or Ph.D. level); and 25 Island Alliance Fellows in local workforce positions. The Alliance will document the progress of students along the pathway, and the supports provided to those students, to determine the components of our collective impact approach that promote student success across the pathway, as well as the development of scientific and collective identities among students. Studying the Islands Alliance progress toward broadening participation in these ways has broader impacts for the field. Inclusion of these underrepresented and underserved individuals will increase individual and cognitive diversity within the U.S. STEM workforce, leading to increased innovation and significant outcomes. The Islands Alliance will give participating partners and coastal communities agency to engage, address, and solve collective coastal problems and grow the national STEM workforce by increasing our understanding of context-specific, culturally-relevant best practices for engaging underrepresented and underserved groups in STEM. In addition, it will provide critical capacity building to three National Science Foundation Established Program's to Stimulate Competitive Research jurisdictions (USVI, Guam, and Puerto Rico) and resources to five historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic serving institutions, and other minority serving institutions, while advancing our understanding of collective impact models.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. This Alliance is co-funded by the NSF INCLUDES program, the Directorate for Geoscience, the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP).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.

来自代表性不足和服务不足群体的个人在STEM学位和工作中所占的比例与他们在美国人口中的比例相比不成比例地小。在地球科学领域尤其如此，只有8%的地球科学相关劳动力由服务不足和代表性不足的少数群体组成。岛屿学生有潜力缩小这一差距，特别是如果他们通过文化相关和基于地方的途径方案进行培训。NSF INCLUDES Islands Alliance将使用集体影响方法：（1）在美属维尔京群岛和关岛成功开展的两个NSF INCLUDES设计开发启动试点项目（DDLP）的基础上，在美国的七个地区建立一个侧重于沿海地球科学途径的国家网络。附属岛屿管辖区（美属维尔京群岛、波多黎各、关岛、北方马里亚纳群岛联邦、帕劳共和国、密克罗尼西亚联邦和马歇尔群岛共和国）（2）通过科学和专业发展培训、辅导、家庭支持方案，（3）通过建立由岛屿联盟骨干组织和指导委员会支持的新岛屿网络，将伙伴组织和个人相互联系起来，并与其他资源、专门知识和导师联系起来，和（4）通过与其他INCLUDES DDLP、联盟、NSF INCLUDES协调中心、两个专业协会（墨西哥裔/西班牙裔和美洲原住民科学促进协会、沿海&河口研究联合会和国家海洋赠款学院计划网络）合作，发展更大的NSF INCLUDES社区。通过集体影响的方法，群岛联盟将提供重要的新见解，了解身份建设的两个方面（个人科学身份和集体身份）如何影响学生的自我效能感，兴趣，参与，归属感和坚持STEM。路径和学生发展的方式在不同的文化背景和背景下也将进行调查。这是第一次协调，合作努力的设想，以连接和包括这些代表性不足和服务不足的岛屿学生在国家的STEM企业之一。这一投资将为参与者和国家扩大STEM参与的努力带来巨大的未来收益。需要纳入来自不同的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）和服务不足的人口的细微差别的文化专业知识，以扩大对地球科学的参与，包括那些生活在美国的领土和美国。附属岛屿。岛屿地区与周围的海洋紧密相连，是该国最多样化的社区之一，大多数或相当大的人口都是科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的URM。即便如此，很少有项目试图与这些社区合作，以扩大STEM劳动力的参与。在五年内，群岛联盟将支持425名初中和高中学生参加暑期地球科学丰富课程; 90名本科生参加早期职业研究和职业经验; 45名高级本科生和/或硕士生参加为期8周的夏季密集桥梁研究生院课程; 20名桥梁课程学生将在合作机构接受研究生培训（MS）。或博士25名岛屿联盟研究员在当地工作人员职位任职。该联盟将记录学生沿着路径的进展，以及为这些学生提供的支持，以确定我们的集体影响方法的组成部分，促进学生在整个路径的成功，以及学生之间的科学和集体身份的发展。研究岛屿联盟以这些方式扩大参与的进展对该领域产生了更广泛的影响。将这些代表性不足和服务不足的个人包括在内，将增加美国STEM劳动力中的个人和认知多样性，从而增加创新和重大成果。岛屿联盟将为参与合作伙伴和沿海社区提供机构，以参与，解决和解决集体沿海问题，并通过增加我们对特定背景，文化相关的最佳实践的理解来发展国家STEM劳动力，以使STEM中代表性不足和服务不足的群体参与进来。此外，它还将为三个国家科学基金会设立的项目提供关键的能力建设，以刺激竞争性研究管辖区（美属维尔京群岛，关岛和波多黎各）和资源，以五个历史上黑人学院和大学，西班牙裔服务机构，和其他少数民族服务机构，同时推进我们对集体影响模型的理解。这个NSF INCLUDES联盟由NSF在全国代表性不足的学习者社区的包容性资助。工程和科学发现者（NSF INCLUDES）是一项全面的国家计划，旨在通过关注多样性，包容性和扩大对STEM的参与来加强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。该联盟由NSF INCLUDES计划、地球科学理事会、刺激竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）和历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP）共同资助。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。

项目成果

Equitable Exchange: A Framework for Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences

• DOI: 10.1029/2020av000359
• 发表时间: 2020-12
• 期刊: AGU Advances
• 影响因子: 8.4
• 作者: L. Harris;C. Garza;M. Hatch;J. Parrish;J. Posselt;J. P. Alvarez Rosario;E. Davidson;G. Eckert;K. W. Wilson Grimes;J. E. García;R. Haacker;M. C. Horner-Devine;A. Johnson;J. Lemus;A. Prakash;L. Thompson;P. Vitousek;M. P. Martin Bras;K. Reyes

A Socio-ecological Imperative for Broadening Participation in Coastal and Estuarine Research and Management

扩大沿海和河口研究与管理参与的社会生态势在必行

• DOI: 10.1007/s12237-021-00944-z
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Estuaries and Coasts
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Harris, L.A.;Grayson, T.;Neckles, H.A.;Emrich, C.T.;Lewis, K.A.;Grimes, K.W.;Williamson, S.;Garza, C.;Whitcraft, C.R.;Pollack, J. Beseres
• 通讯作者: Pollack, J. Beseres

Navigating learning ecosystems: Exploring students’ use of agency in marine and environmental sciences

探索学习生态系统：探索学生在海洋和环境科学中如何利用代理

• DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2022.2145170
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Geoscience Education
• 作者: Martin, Keshia;Robertson Evia, Jane;Peterman, Karen;Grimes, Kristin;Medina, Mónica;Brandt, Marilyn
• 通讯作者: Brandt, Marilyn