Collaborative Research: GP-UP: A near surface geophysics field experience to improve the recruitment and retention of under-represented minority students in the geosciences

合作研究：GP-UP：近地表地球物理学现场经验，以改善地球科学领域代表性不足的少数族裔学生的招募和保留

• 批准号: 2119850
• 负责人: Kristina Keating
• 金额: $ 25.11万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University Newark
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2119850&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GP; UP; near

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Undergraduate geoscience education in the United States lags behind other Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields when it comes to racial and ethnic diversity. This deficit is particularly notable for students who come from communities that have been historically excluded in STEM fields and translates to a larger gap in the workforce and at the graduate level. Notably, there has been no improvement in the racial and ethnic diversity of students earning doctoral degrees in the geosciences over the past 40 years. Research has shown that diversity has demonstrated benefits for scientific advancement, including that diverse perspectives provide unique approaches to problem solving; these perspectives are necessary to meet the challenges and to solve the complex problems of the geosciences. To address this gap, the PIs have designed a field program: “Geophysics of the Near-Surface: an Outdoor Motivational Experience for Students” This project aims to inspire students to major in the geoscience and help these students develop some of the workplace skills necessary to succeed in geoscience careers. The project will provide an engaging outdoor field experience for the student participants that will influence their choice of major, provide mentorship opportunities for upper-level undergraduates, create positive and lasting student-student and student-faculty mentor relationships, provide meaningful research experiences for the students, and create a strong cohort of students across multiple institutions. The goals of the program are: (1) Recruit a diverse cohort of undergraduate students; (2) Support student learning in critical zone science and geophysics; (3) Increase students’ science communication, problem solving, teamwork, and leadership skills; (4) Enhance psychosocial factors that are linked to retention in STEM fields; (5) Increase participation in geoscience research; (6) Increase positive attitudes towards geoscience careers and research; (7) Increase mentors’ leadership and professional skills. By attaining these goals, the PIs propose to build a geoscience learning community of students across the participating institutions and within the broader scientific community and will increase recruitment and retention of these students in geoscience degrees and careers.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助的（公共法117-2）。在种族和种族多样性方面，美国的地球科学教育落后于其他科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域。对于来自STEM领域中历史上排除并转化为劳动力和研究生层面的较大差距的学生而言，这种赤字尤其值得注意。值得注意的是，在过去40年中，在地球科学中获得博士学位的学生的种族和种族多样性没有改善。研究表明，多样性已经证明了科学进步的好处，包括多样性的观点为解决问题提供了独特的方法。这些观点对于应对挑战并解决地球科学的复杂问题是必要的。为了解决这一差距，PI设计了一个现场计划：“近乎表面的地球物理学：学生的户外励志经验”该项目旨在激发学生的地球科学专业，并帮助这些学生发展一些工作场所，以取得成功的地球科学护理人员。该项目将为学生参与者提供引人入胜的户外现场体验，这将影响他们的主要专业，为高级本科生提供指导机会，创造积极而持久的学生和学生教科教育心理关系，为学生提供有意义的研究经验，并为多个机构提供强大的学生队伍。该计划的目标是：（1）招募一组不同的本科生； （2）支持关键区域科学和地球物理学中的学生学习； （3）提高学生的科学沟通，解决问题，团队合作和领导能力； （4）增强与茎领域保留有关的社会心理因素； （5）增加参与地球科学研究； （6）增加对地球科学职业和研究的积极出勤； （7）提高导师的领导力和专业技能。通过达到这些目标，PIS建议在参与机构和更广泛的科学界建立一个地球科学学习社区，并将在地球科学学位和职业中增加这些学生的招聘和保留。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并认为通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的crietia cripitia criperia criperia crigitia criperia cripitia cripitia criperia cristia criperia cripitia cripitia criperia criperia scriperia cristia scriperia secall this the奖项。