GP-IN: A Bridge to Geoscience: An Issue-Relevant Learning Community for College Transfer Students

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。需要地球科学培训的工作数量持续增长，但接受该领域教育的学生数量正在下降。在所有科学学科中，来自历史上被边缘化群体的个人的参与与美国整体人口的比例不匹配，但他们在地球科学劳动力中的代表性甚至落后得更远。与此同时，对于历史上被边缘化的社区来说，环境挑战的影响更大、更严重。因此，增加这些社区在地球科学中的代表性对于制定公平解决这些问题的办法至关重要。在这里，PI旨在试验和测试一项基于地点和问题的招聘和暑期教育计划的有效性，该计划旨在提高社区大学生对研究密集型大学实践的地球科学的兴趣和留存。在这样做的过程中，私人投资机构的目标是开发可适用于任何地点的教育方法，从而支持国家科学基金会通过增加所有受影响社区的参与来促进地球科学进步的目标。从长远来看，PIs还旨在推进NSF的目标，即改善受环境挑战影响最大的社区的健康和福利。该项目旨在测试在对学生有意义的背景下提供基础的学科内容是否能够促进两年制大学转学学生进入地球科学专业的招聘和留住，特别是来自可能面临经济困难、服务不足和在STEM中代表性不足的当地社区的学生。华盛顿大学环境学院的研究人员和教育工作者致力于以发现和解决方案为基础的科学，将环境知识(海洋学、大气科学、地球科学)与海洋生物资源、栖息地和人类社区的研究结合起来。利用这些专业知识，PIS将开发一个夏季桥梁项目，在一艘考察船和该机构的海洋野外站进行。该计划将提供身临其境的体验式学习活动，通过对太平洋西北部社区和政治关切的特定问题的深入、数据驱动的探索，明确将定量技能增强与海洋地球科学联系起来。随后，学生将在第一年参与一系列旨在促进社区建设的队列建设活动，着眼于加强学生对地球科学高级课程工作的准备，并改善社会学习。该奖项反映了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。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).The number of jobs that require Geoscience training continues to grow, but the number of students pursuing an education in this field is declining. In all science disciplines, the participation of individuals from historically marginalized groups does not match the proportion of the U.S. population as a whole, but their representation in the Geoscience workforce lags even further behind. At the same time, the impact of environmental challenges is greater and more severe for historically marginalized communities. Increasing the representation of these communities in the Geosciences is therefore fundamental to developing equitable solutions to these issues. Here, the PIs aim to pilot and test the effectiveness of a place- and issue-based recruitment and summer education program that is designed to increase community college student interest in, and retention in, the Geosciences as practiced at a research intensive university. In doing so, the PIs aim to develop educational approaches that can be adapted to any location, thereby supporting NSF goals of promoting the progress of Geosciences by increasing participation by all affected communities. In the long term, PIs also aim to advance NSF’s goals of improving the health and welfare of the communities most impacted by environmental challenges. The project aims to test whether delivering fundamental, disciplinary content within a context that is meaningful to students can promote recruitment and retention of two-year college transfer students into the Geosciences, and particularly from local communities that may be economically challenged, underserved, and underrepresented in STEM. Researchers and educators in the University of Washington College of the Environment address both discovery and solutions-based science that bring together knowledge of the environment (Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences) with the study of living marine resources, habitats and human communities. Using this expertise, PIs will develop a summer bridge program, conducted on a research vessel and at the institution's marine field station. The program will provide immersive experiential learning activities that explicitly link quantitative skill enhancement with Marine Geoscience via a deep, data-driven exploration of particular issues of community and political concern in the Pacific Northwest. Subsequently, students will engage in a series of cohort-building activities designed to facilitate community building during their first year with an eye towards enhancing student preparedness for advanced coursework in the Geosciences and to improve social learning.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.