Implementation Grant: Community-driven Inclusive Excellence and Leadership Opportunities in the Geosciences (CIELO-G)

实施补助金：社区驱动的地球科学包容性卓越和领导机会 (CIELO-G)

• 批准号: 2228180
• 负责人: Aaron Velasco
• 金额: $ 724.46万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228180&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Grant; Community; driven; Inclusive

The Community-driven Inclusive Excellence and Leadership Opportunities in the Geosciences (CIELO-G) project will form cohorts of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and educators at all levels to transform the culture of the geoscience community by: 1) Supporting a diverse and multi-disciplinary team to address fundamental climate change and Earth system science problems, 2) Training and synergistic learning with local educators to create a modern geoscience learning ecosystem in a bi-national community, 3) Increasing both the number and success rate of students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds that become geoscience professionals, 4) Increasing awareness of the importance of geosciences and inspiring underserved communities and students, and 5) Improving graduate students’ and postdoctoral scholars’ training through evidence-based professional development covering both technical and soft skills. To achieve these goals, the project leaders adopt a collective impact approach that provides a foundation for innovative, robust research that incorporates community engagement. The collective impact (CI) model develops a network of community members, organizations, and institutions by advancing a common agenda, providing centralized support, promoting continuous communication, creating mutually reinforcing activities, and executing a shared measurement. Programmatically, the project leaders will create cohorts of six graduate students, six high school and community college educators, two postdoctoral fellows along with junior faculty, and six faculty research mentors, with integrated efforts for community research and engagement with five local non-government organizations. Together with the local community, the project leaders will design and execute geoscience research projects that combine four essential elements: 1) a basic science question addressing fundamental climate change and Earth system science issues impacting the Paso del Norte Region (west Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Mexico), 2) use-inspired research which results may lead to implementation of practical solutions for the community, 3) socially relevant outcomes driving substantial changes of awareness towards the importance of geosciences in the community, and 4) strong community engagement leading to a long-lasting and sustainable geoscience learning ecosystem in the region. The project leaders identify four initial research projects, recognizing that new projects may develop as CI is implemented: 1) Urgent challenges around water and agriculture sustainability in arid lands, 2) Exploring interactions between geologic structure and water pathways, including impacts on erosion, floods, landslides, and aquifer recharge, 3) Investigating intraplate earthquake hazards in West Texas and southern New Mexico, and 4) Understanding and mitigating increasing urban heat and dust. The projects will be designed to address key science challenges while reaching deep into the communities that they will impact in an organic way, allowing them to evolve in response to continuous community input.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.

社区驱动的地球科学包容性卓越和领导机会（CIB-G）项目将形成各级研究生，博士后学者和教育工作者的群体，通过以下方式改变地球科学界的文化：1）支持多元化和多学科团队解决基本的气候变化和地球系统科学问题，2）与当地教育工作者一起进行培训和协同学习，以在一个两国社区建立一个现代地球科学学习生态系统，3）增加来自不同社会经济背景的学生成为地球科学专业人员的人数和成功率，4）提高对地球科学重要性的认识，激励服务不足的社区和学生，5）通过以证据为基础的专业发展，包括技术和软技能，改善研究生和博士后学者的培训。为了实现这些目标，项目负责人采用集体影响的方法，为结合社区参与的创新，强大的研究提供基础。集体影响（CI）模型通过推进共同议程，提供集中支持，促进持续沟通，创建相互加强的活动，以及执行共享测量，开发社区成员，组织和机构的网络。在方案上，项目负责人将创建6名研究生，6名高中和社区大学教育工作者，2名博士后研究员沿着初级教师，以及6名教师研究导师，与社区研究和五个当地非政府组织的参与综合努力。项目负责人将与当地社区一起，设计和执行结合联合收割机四个基本要素的地球科学研究项目：1）一个基础科学问题，解决影响北帕索地区的基本气候变化和地球系统科学问题（西德克萨斯州，南部新墨西哥州，和北方墨西哥），2）使用启发的研究，其结果可能导致实施的实际解决方案的社区，3）社会相关的成果，推动社区对地球科学重要性的认识发生重大变化，以及4）社区的强烈参与，导致该地区长期和可持续的地球科学学习生态系统。项目负责人确定了四个初步研究项目，认识到随着CI的实施，可能会开发新的项目：1）干旱地区水和农业可持续性的紧迫挑战，2）探索地质结构和水通道之间的相互作用，包括对侵蚀，洪水，山体滑坡和含水层补给的影响，3）调查西德克萨斯州和新墨西哥州南部的板内地震灾害，（4）了解和缓解城市热尘的增加。这些项目旨在解决关键的科学挑战，同时深入社区，他们将以有机的方式影响，使他们能够不断发展，以回应社区的持续投入。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。