Implementation grant: NewGeo: A Newark Geo-ecosystem for cultural transformation and systemic change in the geosciences

纽瓦克地球科学生态系统(NewGeo)是一种变革性的学习型地理生态系统模型，将总部设在纽瓦克的机构和组织联合起来，发展一支准备通过跨部门合作解决城市环境挑战的地球科学劳动力队伍。罗格斯大学纽瓦克领导着NewGeo，这是一家拉美裔服务机构(HSI)，其核心机构使命是社区参与、城市环境中的科学，以及通过将多样性和包容性整合到所有追求中的包容性卓越。通过体验式学习机会，NewGeo研究生与纽瓦克的政府、行业和教育部门建立合作伙伴关系，教授和指导K-16学生，并与非营利组织和社区组织合作。这向研究生和他们指导的有抱负的地球科学家灌输了一种公民责任感。该项目培养了一支代表并准备与当地公民接触的地球科学工作队伍，以解决环境和气候压力和不公正问题。NewGeo的教职员工和管理人员在地理生态系统中促进包容性、协作性和积极的环境；实施并成为战略的实践者，以鼓励和支持边缘化和微型化群体的学生、个人和社区；并将关系正规化并将最佳实践制度化，以实现有效的合作伙伴关系和整个系统变革。NewGeo的所有参与者影响和激励他们的专业和社交网络，在他们的实践社区内分享，并向更广泛的地球科学界传播成果，以便在多个层面适应和采用NewGeo的文化转型模式。NewGeo为来自少数群体和边缘化群体的参与者创造以社区为中心的职业道路，并在科学话语中参与传统上被排除在外的非学术社区。NewGeo由一群研究生带头，他们通过与非学术合作伙伴的合作、自我导向的参与，改变了他们的教育，挑战了地球科学文化。研究生环境社区外展研究生助理(ECO GAS)利用他们的学术准备，通过与NewGeo合作伙伴合作的基于地点的体验式学习体验来培养职业技能。活动包括以社区为基础的嵌入式实习、K-12外联、志愿服务、本科生辅导以及专业和领导力发展。教师和管理人员激活他们的资本，作为变革的推动者，为地球科学带来革命性的变化(CHARE)，以诱导文化转型。该团队负责研究、创建、制度化和传播NewGeo最佳实践、政策和程序，同时从事自我指导和反思的专业发展。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。

The Newark Geoscience Ecosystem (NewGeo) is a transformative learning geo-ecosystem model uniting Newark-based institutions and organizations in the growth of a geoscience workforce prepared to solve urban environmental challenges through cross-sectoral collaboration. Rutgers University Newark leads NewGeo, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with an anchor institution mission centered on community engagement, science in the urban environment, and inclusive excellence through integration of diversity and inclusion in all pursuits. Through experiential learning opportunities, NewGeo graduate students build partnerships with Newark’s government, industry and education sectors, teach and mentor K-16 students, and collaborate with non-profits and community-based organizations. This instills a sense of civic responsibility in graduate students and the aspiring geoscientists they mentor. This project cultivates a geoscience workforce that is representative of and prepared to engage with the local citizenry to tackle environmental and climate stresses and injustices. The NewGeo faculty and administrators promote inclusive, collaborative, and positive environments in the geo-ecosystem; implement and become practitioners of strategies to encourage and support students, individuals, and communities from marginalized and minoritized groups; and formalize relationships and institutionalize best practices for effective partnerships and whole system change. All NewGeo participants influence and inspire their professional and social networks, share within their communities of practice, and disseminate outcomes to the broader geoscience community for adaptation and adoption of the NewGeo model for cultural transformation at multiple levels.NewGeo creates community-centered career pathways for participants from minoritized and marginalized groups and engages a traditionally excluded non-academic community in the scientific discourse. NewGeo is spearheaded by a graduate student cohort that transforms their education and challenges geoscience culture through collaborative, self-directed engagement with non-academic partners. Graduate student environment community-outreach graduate assistants (ECO GAs) leverage their academic preparation and build career skills through place-based experiential learning experiences in collaboration with NewGeo partners. Activities include embedded community-based internships, K-12 outreach, volunteerism, mentoring of undergraduates, and professional and leadership development. Faculty and administrators activate their capital as change agents for revolutionizing the geosciences (CHARGE) to induce cultural transformation. The cohort is CHARGEd to research, create, institutionalize and disseminate NewGeo best practices, policies and procedures, while engaging in self-guided and reflective professional development.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.