Implementation Grant: The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science - Transforming the Geoscience Culture to become more Diverse, Equitable, and Just

该项目将建立在地球科学文化转型的现有模式基础上，该模式已由科学多样性领导中心开发。做科学的社会背景是通过领导力的发展，基于团队的科学实践，并通过故意的关系和伙伴关系，打破传统的等级制度强调。这项工作的一个组成部分将研究如何影响人们，以提高他们对地球科学不同知识体系的认识和尊重，以及促进社会的技能，从而有能力进行健康，有效，跨学科的地球科学研究和实践。项目负责人将研究该计划对参与者作为科学家和文化变革推动者的身份的影响。该计划的活动将侧重于通过教育和职业轨迹移动早期职业研究员的群体是故意对他们的环境，并提供与同行，以前的开拓者和训练有素的教师的指导，领导，建模和网络发展。项目领导人将保持与人民和合作伙伴关系的连续性和健康，包括区域社区组织，部落当局和少数民族服务机构，因此他们可以继续指导社区驱动的科学，参与研究和尊重合作经验的努力。与此同时，项目负责人将支持由早期职业研究员领导的社区和网络建设倡议，包括环境正义工作组、绿色STEM退伍军人和纳瓦霍学者网络。项目负责人将继续组织和努力，使各部门、大学和专业协会参与共享学习和实践，以支持公平，通过影响专业化进程和实施变革战略来培养机构环境。该项目将吸引地球科学早期职业研究员、社区专家（荣誉研究员）、教职研究员和核心工作人员，每年增加到100多人。该项目将为授权，支持和保留地球系统科学和绿色STEM领域结构性排斥群体的人提供机会，包括有色人种，LGBTQIA+，退伍军人和残疾地球科学家和社区成员，成为社会所需的创新者，科学家和社会领袖。这项工作将建设地球科学以及学术和非学术机构的能力，以开展与环境科学和司法有关的以社区为中心的工作，其中包括各种了解和创造知识的方式。项目负责人将培训下一代地球科学家，他们将相互学习，向学者和社区专家学习，从而为劳动力发展和创新科学做出贡献。研究员将增长和应用他们的地球科学知识，并提高他们的技能，作为领导者和多样性，公平，包容，正义，访问和归属的拥护者。项目领导人提出，通过学习和实践社区培养领导技能不仅会产生立竿见影的效果，而且还将使注重环境和社区的学者网络能够在今后几年与同行和学员分享他们的经验教训。该项目将支持中心、大学、社区组织和部落当局之间的可持续和公平的伙伴关系，其活动将产生超出参与机构的影响。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。

This project will build on an existing model for cultural transformation in the geosciences that has been developed by the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science. The social context of doing science is emphasized through leadership development, the practice of team-based science, and through intentional relationships and partnerships that disrupt traditional hierarchies. One component of this effort will study how to impact people to grow their awareness of and respect for different knowledge systems in geoscience, and pro-social skills, to thereby have the capacity for healthy, effective, transdisciplinary geoscience research and practice. The project leaders will examine the impact of the program on participants’ identities as scientists and cultural change agents. The program activities will focus on moving cohorts of early career fellows through the educational and career trajectory being intentional about their environment, and providing mentorship with peers, previous trailblazers, and trained faculty for leadership, modeling, and network development. Project leaders will maintain continuity and health in relationships with people and partners, including regional community-based organizations, tribal authorities, and minority-serving institutions, so they can continue to steer efforts for community-driven science, engaged research, and respectful collaborative experiences. At the same time, project leaders will support community- and network-building initiatives led by early career fellows, including the Environmental Justice Working Group, Veterans in Green STEM, and the Navajo Scholars Network. Project leaders will continue to organize and work to engage departments, universities, and professional societies in the shared learning and practices in support of equity, cultivating institutional contexts by impacting professionalization processes and implementing change strategies.The project will engage geoscience early career fellows, community experts who are honorary fellows, faculty fellows, and core staff, adding to more than 100 individuals per year. This project will provide opportunities for empowering, supporting, and retaining people from structurally excluded groups in earth system science and green STEM fields, including people of color, LGBTQIA+, veteran, and disabled geoscientists and community members, to become the innovators, scientific, and social leaders needed by society. This work will build capacity in the geosciences and in academic and non-academic institutions for community-centered work relating to environmental science and justice that includes diverse ways of knowing and knowledge creation. Project leaders will train the next generation of geoscientists, who will learn from each other, from academics, and from community experts, thereby contributing to workforce development and innovative science. The fellows will grow and apply their knowledge of geoscience and enhance their skills as leaders and champions of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, access, and belonging. Project leaders propose that cultivating leadership skills through communities of learning and practice will not only have immediate impact but will enable the network of environment- and community-focused scholars to share their experiences and lessons learned with their peers and mentees for years to come. This project will support sustainable and equitable partnerships between the Center, universities, community-based organizations, and tribal authorities, and the activities will have impact beyond participating institutions.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.