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

“通过地球科学中的关系和同盟关系连接我们的单位”或COUCHS项目是一个规划跟踪项目，将为位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学（CUB）地质科学系（GEOL）未来的实施跟踪项目奠定基础。 其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（HUCG）的研究生的参与，并为未来基于社区的研究建立社区伙伴关系，以促进解决气候变化带来的复杂环境和社会挑战，来改变地球科学界的文化。 认识到扩大参与地球科学的努力取决于关系，这个规划跟踪项目将制定基于互惠关系的活动，促进GEOL内的社区建设，并导致与当地社区的伙伴关系。 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，以社区为基础的研究的未来行为的调整，拟议的规划轨道项目将侧重于我们的GEOL教师之间的能力建设，我们的GEOL研究生之间建立社区，建立教师和研究生之间的关系，并建立教师和社区合作伙伴之间的关系。 因此，拟议的规划轨道项目的智力重点是双重的。首先是实施战略和活动，以克服明显的障碍，以社区为基础的研究与HUCG研究生。 第二，进行一次反思性总结性评价，以说明（一）在项目期间，扩大GEOL参与的现有规范和做法是如何演变的，以及（二）开展未来实施跟踪项目或类似活动的准备程度。 在该项目的生命，GEOL教师和其他地球科学单位的教师将通过他们在两个专业发展计划的参与，以及所有地球科学研究生通过他们的参与规划和/或参与指导活动，招聘活动和其他项目活动的影响。 此外，所有GEOL教师预计将受到他们的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扩大地球科学参与的公开讨论和协同互动的工具。 该项目预计还将影响其他地球科学单位的约10名教职员工和约50名研究生;当地社区的100多名个人;以及约10个当地政府机构，私营企业和非营利组织。 在该项目的生命周期中，还预计CUB的地球科学家将与当地社区成员建立联系并发展关系，并建立伙伴关系，这可能导致相互启发的基于社区的研究，有助于解决气候变化带来的复杂环境和社会挑战。 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。

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.