Diversifying geochemistry – travel support for students from under-represented constituencies to attend the Goldschmidt Conference; 2020-2022

地球化学多元化——为来自代表性不足选区的学生参加戈德施密特会议提供旅行支持；

• 批准号: 2018087
• 负责人: Elisabeth Sikes
• 金额: $ 5.52万
• 依托单位: The Geochemical Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2018087&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Diversifying; geochemistry; travel; support; students

The Geosciences is among the least diverse of the STEM fields in terms of participation of people from underrepresented ethnic groups (defined by the US government as African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Native Hawai’ians and Pacific Islanders, Native Alaskans). In addition, studies have shown that undergraduate students who are the first in their generation to attend college are much less likely than their multi-college generation cohorts to pursue research and advanced degrees. Because it is well-documented that having heterogeneous teams working on a problem brings greater innovation, it is important to expand participation in geoscience research and broaden diversity in the field. The V.M. Goldschmidt Conference is the premier international meeting for geochemistry. This annual Conference alternates between European venues (organized by the European Association of Geochemistry) and venues in North America, Asia, or Australia (organized by the Geochemical Society). In order to increase the diversity of geochemists, the funding from this project will support the participation of students from underrepresented groups to attend the Goldschmidt Conference so that they may learn about the most recent advances in the field, meet future mentors and employers, and present their own research. The NSF funding will be matched by funds from the Geochemical Society in order to support the following demographics: 1) students who are members of underrepresented ethnic groups, 2) students matriculating in colleges and universities that do not offer doctorate programs and where their advisors and unlikely to have grant funding to support the student’s conference attendance, 3) undergraduate students at any institution of higher education who are the first in their generation to attend college. Outcomes of the program will be tracked from year to year in order to determine any effects it may have had on achieving greater diversity within geochemistry.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.

地球科学是STEM领域中最缺乏多样性的领域之一，涉及代表性不足的种族群体（美国政府定义为非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，美洲原住民，夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民，阿拉斯加原住民）。此外，研究表明，本科生谁是他们这一代第一次上大学是不太可能比他们的多大学一代同龄人追求研究和高级学位。因为有充分的证据表明，让不同的团队研究一个问题会带来更大的创新，所以扩大地球科学研究的参与度和扩大该领域的多样性是很重要的。虚拟主机Goldschmidt会议是地球化学的首要国际会议。该年会在欧洲场地（由欧洲地球化学协会组织）和北美，亚洲或澳大利亚的场地（由地球化学学会组织）之间交替举行。为了增加地球化学家的多样性，该项目的资金将支持来自代表性不足的群体的学生参加Goldschmidt会议，以便他们可以了解该领域的最新进展，满足未来的导师和雇主，并介绍自己的研究。NSF的资金将与地球化学学会的资金相匹配，以支持以下人口统计数据：1）代表性不足的族裔群体的学生，2）在不提供博士学位课程的学院和大学录取的学生，他们的顾问和不太可能有赠款资金来支持学生的会议出席，3）任何高等教育机构的本科生，他们是他们这一代中第一个进入大学的人。该计划的成果将每年进行跟踪，以确定它可能对实现地球化学更大的多样性产生的任何影响。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。