RCN: GOLD-EN: Leadership Academy and Network for Diversity and Inclusion in Geosciences (LANDInG): Building, Developing and Sustaining DEI Leaders

美国地球物理联合会（AGU）将组织一个研究协调网络（RCN），以支持社区和领导力发展工作，目标是创建一支更加多样化和包容性的地球科学工作队伍。领导层可以促进文化转变，研究表明，在高层的支持下，多元化、公平和包容（DEI）倡议往往更有效。通过实践社区（CoP）和地球科学领域的专业发展来提高DEI领导能力，将填补基础设施方面的空白，从而扩大地球科学领域的参与，并（直接和间接地）改善整个学科的DEI成果。地球科学领域的DEI拥护者和领导者缺乏一个网络和专业发展的中心社区，阻碍了他们的努力产生更广泛的影响。登陆RCN（地球科学研究协调网络多样性和包容性领导学院和网络）的目标是建立一个可持续的正式和非正式领导人网络，以支持DEI的价值观和实践，培养新的领导人群体，以实施DEI努力，扩大地球科学领域的参与。利用AGU的会员资格和影响力，与其他地球科学学会合作，该计划将实现四个目标：目标1：为地球科学领域DEI领军者建立可持续的CoP网络，包括虚拟平台（着陆点）和现场活动，以参与和支持地球科学领域DEI领军者在网络、资源共享和专业发展活动中的广泛代表。目标2：为地球科学实施DEI领导学院，建设DEI工作的循证领导能力，具体解决地球科学社区的需求。目标3：创造和促进在地球科学领域领导DEI倡议的直接经验的机会，进一步确保广泛参与以证据为基础的文化和组织变革战略，同时扩大对缔约方会议的影响。目标4：提高DEI领军者的知名度和认知度/ DEI在地球科学领域的领导价值，扩大CoP网络和学院参与者的专业知识和成功，以提高DEI领军者和领导者在该学科内的认知度和价值。变革模型借鉴了社会科学和组织科学的研究和理论，包括关于专业网络/指导、实施有效的多样性和领导者培训的文献。实施变革的方法以证据为基础，并以高等教育/STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）中基于群体的专业发展的国家模式为框架。LANDInG对地球科学的影响将包括：1)DEI专业发展的新模式；2) DEI领导能力增强；3) DEI冠军更广泛、更强大的专业网络；4)加深对DEI需求的理解；5)将跨学科的DEI变化的新实践/模型制度化。LANDInG的目标包括：1)增加对女性、残疾人、未被充分代表的少数民族以及在地球科学领域处于这些身份交叉点的人员的招聘、保留和提升；2) DEI领军者出现并影响地球科学变化的能力增强；3)可扩展的、可持续的专业协会模式，以影响DEI变化并扩大STEM的参与；4)加强学术界、协会、行业和非营利组织之间的伙伴关系；5)发展一支多元化、具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力队伍。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will organize a Research Coordination Network (RCN) to support community and leadership development efforts with the goal of creating a more diverse and inclusive geoscience workforce. Cultural shifts can be facilitated by leadership, and research indicates that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are more often effective when championed from the top. Increasing capacity for DEI leadership through a Community of Practice (CoP) and professional development within the geosciences would fill an infrastructure gap for efforts that broaden participation in the geosciences and improve DEI outcomes (directly and indirectly) across the discipline. DEI champions and leaders in the geosciences lack a central community for networking and professional development, hindering broader impact of their efforts. LANDInG RCN's (Leadership Academy and Network for Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences-Research Coordination Network) aim is to develop a sustainable network of formal and informal leaders to champion DEI values and practices, developing cohorts of new leaders to implement DEI efforts that broaden participation across the geosciences. Leveraging the membership and reach of AGU, in partnership with other geoscience societies, the program will achieve four objectives: Objective 1: Implement a sustainable CoP Network for DEI champions in the geosciences, including a virtual platform (The LANDInG Site) and in-person events to engage and support a broad representation of DEI champions within the geosciences in networking, resource-sharing, and professional development activities. Objective 2: Implement a DEI Leader Academy for the geosciences, building capacity for evidence-based leadership of DEI efforts that specifically address the needs of the geoscience community. Objective 3: Create and foster opportunities for direct experience leading DEI initiatives in the geosciences, to further ensure broad engagement with evidence-based strategies for culture and organizational change while broadening impact for the CoP. Objective 4: Raise the visibility and recognition of DEI champions/ the value of DEI leadership in the geosciences amplifying the expertise and successes of those who participate in the CoP Network and Academy to elevate recognition and value of DEI champions and leaders within the discipline. The model for change draws from research and theory spanning social and organizational sciences, including the literatures on professional networks/mentoring, and implementing effective diversity and leader training. The methods for enacting change are evidence-based and framed by national models for cohort-based professional development within higher education/STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).LANDInG's outcomes for geosciences would include: 1) new models for DEI professional development; 2) increased capacity for DEI leadership; 3) broader and stronger professional networks for DEI champions; 4) increased understanding of DEI needs; 5) institutionalization of new practices/models for DEI change across the discipline. LANDInG's goal's include 1) Increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of women, persons with disabilities, underrepresented minorities, and those at the intersections of these identities in the geosciences; 2) Increased capacity for DEI champions to emerge and affect change in the geosciences; 3) Scalable, sustainable models for professional societies to affect DEI change and broaden participation in STEM; 4) enhanced partnerships between academia, associations, industry, and nonprofit organizations; and 5) development of a diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce.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.