RCN: Geosciences Associated Societies Committed to Embracing and Normalizing Diversity (Geosciences ASCEND)

将与阿肯色州大学、美国地质学会（GSA）、佛罗里达大学、詹姆斯麦迪逊大学和得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校建立一个研究协调网络（RCN），作为牵头实体，组织广泛代表地球科学学科的30个相关学会、组织和机构。致力于拥抱和规范多样性研究协调网络（地球科学ASCEND RCN）的地球科学协会将重点关注以下行动：1）推进和加速地球科学的文化变革，2）扩大地球科学中不同身份的参与，3）创建一个更具包容性的学科，所有人都可以参与并做出贡献。地球科学ASCEND RCN指导委员会由主要研究人员和代表六个学术机构和十一个专业协会和组织的高级人员组成。 因此，地球科学ASCEND RCN广泛地代表了为国家地球科学工作队伍中的地球科学家服务的专业组织。通过系统动力学构建地球科学的多样性和包容性，团队领导将参与网络，以提供不同的视角，目标是创建更具包容性的地球科学工作队伍。基于社区为基础的社会营销（CBSM）理论的行动，RCN将开发和部署活动，以实现广泛的行为变化的有效性。CBSM已被有效地用于可持续发展学科，以在广泛不同的人群中发展更可持续的行为。CBSM所采取的行动以社区为中心，强调采取具体行动的社区利益。因此，CBSM是一种强有力的说服机制，可以促进受众所接受的变化。成功的CBSM计划建立了参与该过程的团体永久采用的行为。地球科学ASCEND RCN将探索地球科学文化的要素和属性，以更好地了解特定规范如何成为包容的障碍。更重要的是，地球科学ASCEND RCN将建议成员专业协会采取行动，以降低或消除文化参与障碍。通过分享有关降低或消除参与障碍的行动的共同信息，RCN将支持更加多样化和包容的地球科学工作人员和学习者社区。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。

A Research Coordination Network (RCN) will be established with the University of Arkansas, Geological Society of America (GSA), University of Florida, James Madison University, and University of Texas-Austin serving as the lead entities to organize thirty associated societies, organizations and institutions broadly representing the Geosciences disciplines. The Geosciences Associated Societies Committed to Embracing and Normalizing Diversity Research Coordination Network (Geosciences ASCEND RCN) will focus on action to 1) advance and accelerate cultural change in geosciences, 2) broaden participation of diverse identities in geoscience, and 3) create a more inclusive discipline in which all people may participate and contribute. The Geosciences ASCEND RCN Steering Committee is comprised of the Principal Investigators and senior personnel representing six academic institutions and eleven professional societies and organizations. Thus, Geosciences ASCEND RCN is broadly representative of professional organizations that serve geoscientists in the national geoscience workforce. Framing diversity and inclusion in geosciences through system dynamics, team leaders will engage the network to provide a different perspective with the goal of creating a more inclusive geoscience workforce. Basing actions on the theory of Community-Based Social Marketing (CBSM), the RCN will develop and deploy activities with demonstrated efficacy for effecting broad behavioral changes. CBSM has been used effectively in the discipline of Sustainability to develop more sustainable behaviors among broadly different populations. Actions embraced by CBSM center on community and emphasize the community benefits of adopting the specific actions. Thus, CBSM is a powerfully persuasive mechanism to promote changes that are embraced by the audience. Successful CBSM initiatives establish behaviors that are permanently adopted by the groups engaged in the process. The Geosciences ASCEND RCN will explore the elements and attributes of Geosciences Culture to better understand how specific norms may be a barrier to inclusion. More importantly, Geosciences ASCEND RCN will recommend actions to be implemented by member professional societies to lower or eliminate cultural participatory barriers. By sharing common information about actions that can lower or eliminate participatory barriers, the RCN will support a more diverse and inclusive geoscience workforce and community of learners.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.