EAGER: The Geoscience behind Resilient Infrastructure Careers: Unlocking the Intrinsic Value of Diverse Communities

EAGER：弹性基础设施背后的地球科学职业：释放多元化社区的内在价值

• 批准号: 2141594
• 负责人: Vernon Morris
• 金额: $ 29.91万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 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 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2141594&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Geoscience; behind; Resilient; Infrastructure

This proposal outlines the Emerging Geoscience Scholars (EGS) model, a novel approach towards nurturing talent and welcoming identity. The PIs propose to pilot new approaches to the engagement of professional societies with people in the cities that host their annual meetings. The PIs propose to start modestly with 20-30 scholars from historically underrepresented communities, disconnected youth, veterans, and transitional (unemployed or underemployed) people per year investigating careers and sharing their findings as emerging professionals at a major geoscience conference, the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). By sharing their work in a professional science meeting and putting the weight of a major scientific society and large academic institution behind those investigations, ideas can grow into a practice that can ultimately transform the geoscience infrastructure and workforce as well as other scientific and professional associations. With the emphasis that the Biden Administration has put on infrastructure and conservation, partnering with AGU, and the many professions it covers, is an ideal starting point for this experimental program.This program aims to increase the capacity for a resilient and sustainable built infrastructure and advance climate justice, by ensuring that the geoscience and the wider infrastructure workforce of the future adopts values and methods that center on and embrace the core values of equity, justice, and inclusiveness - from diversity comes strength. A sustainable future workforce for the geosciences must be composed of, and ultimately led by, people of color, Native Americans, and immigrants. It must start now with this rising generation. This proposed learning/training ecosystem is designed to be an open-source model or template that can be adopted by other professional associations and partnering educational institutions nationwide; it thus contributes to the common educational and research infrastructure for the development of a diverse and globally competitive US workforce. By addressing issues important to urban coastal communities under pressures from climate change, the effort has the potential to improve the wellbeing of people in society. By educating and engaging youth and lifelong learners in local scientific and social issues, it helps develop a more involved and informed public as well as broadening racial and ethnic diversity in the geosciencesThis 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.

该提案概述了新兴地球科学学者（EGS）模型，这是一种培养人才和欢迎身份的新方法。专业学会建议试行新的办法，让专业学会与主办其年会的城市的人民接触。PI建议每年从20-30名来自历史上代表性不足的社区，断开的青年，退伍军人和过渡（失业或未充分就业）的人的学者开始适度调查职业生涯，并在一个重要的地球科学会议上分享他们的发现作为新兴专业人士，美国地球物理联盟（AGU）的秋季会议。通过在专业科学会议上分享他们的工作，并将主要科学学会和大型学术机构的重量放在这些调查之后，想法可以成长为一种实践，最终可以改变地球科学基础设施和劳动力以及其他科学和专业协会。由于拜登政府对基础设施和保护的重视，与AGU及其涵盖的许多专业合作是这一实验计划的理想起点。该计划旨在提高弹性和可持续建筑基础设施的能力，并促进气候正义。通过确保地球科学和未来更广泛的基础设施劳动力采用以公平，正义，和包容性--多样性带来力量。地球科学的可持续未来劳动力必须由有色人种、美洲原住民和移民组成，并最终由他们领导。它必须从现在开始，从这一代人开始。这一拟议的学习/培训生态系统旨在成为一个开源模型或模板，可供全国其他专业协会和合作教育机构采用;因此，它有助于建立共同的教育和研究基础设施，以发展多元化和具有全球竞争力的美国劳动力。通过解决在气候变化压力下对城市沿海社区至关重要的问题，这一努力有可能改善社会中人们的福祉。通过教育和参与青年和终身学习者在当地的科学和社会问题，它有助于发展一个更参与和知情的公众，以及扩大种族和民族的多样性，在地球科学这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。