The Dissemination of Undergraduate Research Initiatives that Support Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences

该项目在纽约市理工学院(城市理工学院)、国家海洋和大气管理局、国家大气研究中心和罗格斯大学之间建立了伙伴关系，为地学专家提供了一个机会，让他们从繁忙的日常活动中抽身出来(大多数活动不允许有时间和环境对一般的地学，特别是他们自己的地学计划和创新进行深思熟虑和参与)，并聚集三天，以创建一个地学支持小组，交流关于URM和边缘化群体的地学计划的想法，记录他们经过测试的战略和最佳实践，并前瞻性地思考如何塑造和重塑地球科学格局，实施鼓励、包容和整合多样性和包容性的战略和方法。该项目的成果将对地球科学产生变革性和可持续性的影响。该项目不仅将吸引、增加和鼓励一支新的地球科学专家队伍进入地球科学写作和出版界，而且还将增加和推广让城市居民和其他边缘群体参与地球科学的最佳做法，从而潜在地增加这些被忽视的群体成功参与地球科学的机会。具体地说，该项目将：a)收集和汇编地球科学研究报告，这些研究报告可能会增进有关如何最好地让城市管理当局和其他边缘群体参与地球科学的知识；b)就如何编写和提交一篇侧重于多样性和包容性的地球科学教育文章提供手持指导；c)培训城市技术学院的本科生并使其参与地球科学教育研究。通过在撰写和向同行评议期刊提交地球科学教育研究论文方面提供专家指导，讲习班编写的文章将得到广泛传播。此外，通过将这些文章发布在City Tech的OpenLab网站上，不仅地球科学界，而且全球任何对培养地球科学或任何其他学科的多样性感兴趣的团体、机构或个人都可以轻松访问这些文章。这个项目的亮点之一是它是可复制、可适应和可采用的。它可能会扩大规模，使更多的合作伙伴、更多的参与者参与进来，并最终产生更多的地球科学教育研究文章，这些文章将有助于介绍如何在多样性和包容性方面最好地扩大地球科学帐篷。通过这个拟议的项目，地球科学从业者可能永远不会记录他们的工作，现在有机会这样做。这个奖项反映了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。

Part 1This project creates a partnership between the New York City College of Technology (City Tech), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Rutgers University that provides an opportunity for geoscience experts to come away from their busy routine activities (most of which do not allow the time and the setting for thoughtful reflection and engagement about the geosciences in general and about their own geoscience programs and innovations, in particular) and to huddle together for three days in a bid to create a geoscience support group, to exchange ideas about geoscience programs for URMs and marginalized groups, to document their tested strategies and best practices, and to forward-think about the shaping and the reshaping of a geoscience landscape that implements strategies and methodologies that encourages, embraces, and integrates diversity and inclusion. The deliverables from this project will have transformative and sustainable effects on the geosciences. Not only will the project attract, add, and encourage a new cadre of geoscience experts to the geoscience writing and publication community, but it will also increase and proliferate best practices for engaging URMs and other marginalized groups in the geosciences and thereby potentially increase the successful participation of these neglected groups in the geosciences.Part 2This workshop seeks to take advantage of extant expertise in the atmospheric sciences to bolster the efforts related to workforce development and inclusive educational practices. Specifically, the project will: a) collect and compile geoscience research studies that will potentially advance knowledge about how best to engage URMs and other marginalized groups in the geosciences; b) provide hand-held guidance on how to prepare and submit a geoscience educational article that focuses on diversity and inclusion, and c) train and engage City Tech undergraduates in geoscience educational research. By providing expert guidance in writing and submitting geoscience educational research papers to peer-reviewed journals, articles developed at the workshop will be widely disseminated. Moreover, by posting the articles on City Tech's OpenLab site, they will be easily accessible to not only the geoscience community, but also to any group, institution, or person across the globe who has interest in cultivating diversity in the geosciences or in any other discipline. One of the highlights of this project is that it is replicable, adaptable, and adoptable. It may be scaled to involve more partners, more participants, and ultimately to produce more geoscience educational research articles that will help to inform how best to expand the geoscience tent as far as diversity and inclusion are concerned. Through this proposed project, geoscience practitioners who perhaps never would have documented their work, now have an opportunity to do so.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.