Planning Grant: Connecting Our Unit throughv Relationships and Allyships in Geoscience (COURAGE)

“通过地球科学中的关系和盟友连接我们的单位”（COURAGE）项目是一个规划跟踪项目，将为科罗拉多大学博尔德分校（CUB）地质科学系（GEOL）的未来实施跟踪项目奠定基础。目标是通过扩大来自历史上代表性不足或边缘化的地球科学社区的研究生的参与，以及为未来以社区为基础的研究建立社区伙伴关系，从而改变地球科学社区的文化，这些研究有助于解决气候变化带来的复杂环境和社会挑战。认识到扩大地球科学参与的努力取决于关系，这一规划轨道项目将制定基于互惠关系的活动，促进GEOL内部的社区建设，并与当地社区建立伙伴关系。为了促进地球科学教师、研究生和社区合作伙伴之间的关系，以便未来开展以社区为基础的研究，拟议的规划轨道项目将侧重于建设我们GEOL教师之间的能力，在我们GEOL研究生之间建立社区，在教师和研究生之间建立关系，以及在教师和社区合作伙伴之间建立关系。因此，拟议的规划轨道项目的智力焦点是双重的。首先是实施战略和活动，以克服与hug研究生进行社区研究的明显障碍。第二是进行内省总结性评价，以描述(i)扩大GEOL参与的现有规范和做法在项目生命周期内如何演变，以及（ii）开展未来执行跟踪项目或类似活动的准备程度。在项目期间，GEOL的教职员工和其他地球科学单位的教职员工将通过参与两个专业发展项目而受到影响，所有地球科学研究生也将通过参与规划和/或参与指导活动、招聘活动和其他项目活动而受到影响。此外，所有GEOL教师都将受到研究生参与项目活动的影响。该项目将成为教师和研究生之间围绕拓宽地球科学参与的公开讨论和协同互动的载体。该项目预计还将影响到其他地球科学单位约10名教职员工和约50名研究生；来自当地社区的数百人；还有大约10个地方政府机构、私营企业和非营利组织。在项目的生命周期内，预计CUB的地球科学家将与当地社区成员建立联系并发展关系，并形成伙伴关系，从而导致相互启发的社区研究，为解决气候变化带来的复杂环境和社会挑战做出贡献。规划跟踪项目的累积影响是为CUB的地球科学家在未来开展CTGC实施跟踪项目或类似活动奠定基础。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 “Connecting Our Unit through Relationships and Allyships in GEoscience” or COURAGE project is a planning-track project that will lay the groundwork within the Department of Geological Sciences (GEOL) at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CUB) for a future implementation-track project. The goal is to transform the culture of the geoscience community by broadening participation of graduate students who come from historically underrepresented or marginalized communities in geoscience (HUCG) and building community partnerships for future community-based research that contributes to solutions to the complex environmental and societal challenges imposed by climate change. Recognizing that efforts to broaden participation in geoscience depends on relationships, this planning-track project will enact activities based on reciprocal relationships that foster community building within GEOL and lead to partnerships with local communities. To facilitate the alignment of relationships between geoscience faculty, graduate students, and community partners for the future conduct of community-based research, the proposed planning-track project will focus on building capacity among our GEOL faculty, building community among our GEOL graduate students, building relationships between faculty and graduate students, and building relationships between faculty and community partners. Thus, the intellectual focus of the proposed planning-track project is two-fold. First is to implement strategies and activities to overcome apparent barriers to community-based research with HUCG graduate students. Second is to undertake an introspective summative evaluation to describe (i) how existing norms and practices for broadening participation in GEOL evolve during the life of the project and (ii) the level of readiness for undertaking a future implementation-track project or similar activities. During the life of the project, GEOL faculty members and faculty members in other geoscience units will be impacted through their participation in two professional development programs as well as all geoscience graduate students through their participation in planning and/or participating in mentoring activities, recruiting activities, and other project activities. Furthermore, all GEOL faculty members are expected to be impacted by their graduate students’ engagement in project activities. The project will be a vehicle for open discussions and synergistic interactions between faculty and graduate students around broadening participation in geoscience. The project is also expected to impact ~10 faculty members and ~50 graduate students in other geoscience units; 100s of individuals from the local community; and ~10 local government agencies, private industries, and non-profit organizations. During the life of the project, it is also expected that geoscientists at CUB will connect with and develop relationships with members of local communities and form partnerships that could lead to mutually edifying community-based research that contributes to solutions to the complex environmental and societal challenges imposed by climate change. The cumulative impact of the planning-track project is to have the groundwork for geoscientists at CUB to pursue a CTGC implementation-track project or similar activities in the future.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.