Implementation Grant: Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting cultural change In geoscience Research and Education (INSPIRE)

在地球科学研究和教育中实施促进文化变革的创新解决方案(INSPIRE)计划提供了一个多方面的解决方案，用于转变文化、转移权力，并真正参与到跨学科地球和环境科学中未得到充分服务的社区中。Inspirate将指导、培训和发展在地球科学中历史上代表性较低的早期职业研究人员和专业人员。通过加强研究机构和少数群体服务机构(MSI)之间的关系，INSPIRE将使地球科学去殖民化，通过共同设计研究项目来优先考虑社区的参与，并促进在我们全国范围内公平地分享地球科学知识。INSPIRE将培养一个公正、公平和包容的地球科学研究社区，反映国家的多样性，并植根于多方向的倾听和知识转让。INSPIRE将专注于未来地球科学领袖中经常迷失的两个群体：1)在研究生院之前；2)在终身教职之前。桥梁学者(毕业后)将通过一个以气候为重点的桥梁到博士项目得到支持和培训，该项目将包括注册研究生级别的课程，参与研究，并启动一个基于证据的自我肯定组成部分，盔甲项目。访问学者(麻省理工学院早期职业教师/研究人员)将获得技能和经验，通过他们所在的机构，在哥伦比亚大学科学家的协作支持和合作伙伴关系下，开发以社区为重点的地球科学研究。哥伦比亚大学东道主/导师对来访同乡机构的互访将是他们合作的一个组成部分，并将加强机构伙伴关系。来自这两个群体的参与者将与纽约市的社区接触，以获得以社区为重点的地学研究共同设计的经验。哥伦比亚地球科学界，包括其校友，将参与指导和支持的协调行动，并将为这两个群体的成员提供网络机会。由MSI和BIPOC在STEM的领导人组成的科学家和学者文化顾问委员会将通过沟通和一年两次的会议就项目方向提供指导和反馈。INSPIRE的14名访问学者和16名桥梁学者将与他们的导师、东道主和合作者一起成为变革的推动者，他们将把这个新颖的研究和教育生态系统的各个方面传播到多个机构。INSPIRE将为地球科学界早就应该进行的系统变革和文化转型提供新的解决方案。它将支持和维持以多样性、公平性、包容性和可获得性(DEIA)为中心的项目，并将为新项目的蓬勃发展创造资源和机会。设想的文化转型将增加地球科学的创造力、公平性、相关性和影响力。这一奖项反映了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。

Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting Cultural Change In Geoscience Research & Education (INSPIRE) program delivers a multi-faceted solution for transforming culture, shifting power, and authentically engaging underserved communities within the transdisciplinary earth and environmental sciences. INSPIRE will mentor, train, and develop early-career researchers and professionals historically underrepresented in the geosciences. By strengthening relationships between research institutions and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), INSPIRE will decolonize geoscience, prioritize engagement of communities through co-design of research programs, and promote the equitable sharing of geoscientific knowledge broadly across our nation. INSPIRE will foster a just, equitable, and inclusive geoscience research community that reflects the diversity of the nation and is rooted in multi-directional listening and knowledge transfer.INSPIRE will focus on two cohort populations of future geoscience leaders at the transition points where they are often lost: 1) prior to graduate school; and, 2) prior to tenure. Bridge Scholars (post-baccalaureates) will be supported and trained through a climate-focused Bridge-to-PhD program that will include enrolling in graduate-level classes, participating in research, and launching an evidence-based self-affirmation component, the Armor Project. Visiting Fellows (early career faculty/researchers at MSIs) will gain skills and experience for developing community-focused geoscience research through their home institutions with collaborative support from - and partnerships with - Columbia University scientists. Reciprocal visits from Columbia hosts/mentors to the Visiting Fellow home institutions will be an integral part of their collaboration and will strengthen institutional partnerships. Participants from both cohorts will engage with communities in New York City to gain experience with community-focused co-design of geoscience research. The Columbia geoscience community, including its alumni, will participate in coordinated action of mentoring and support, and will offer networking opportunities to members of both cohorts. A Council of Cultural Advisors of scientists and scholars from MSIs and BIPOC leaders in STEM will provide guidance and feedback on program directions through communications and biannual meetings. Together with their mentors, host and collaborators, INSPIRE’s 14 Visiting Fellows and 16 Bridge Scholars will become agents of change who will propagate aspects of this novel research and education ecosystem into multiple institutions. INSPIRE will deliver novel solutions for systemic change and cultural transformation long overdue in the geosciences. It will support and sustain Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)-centered programs, and will create resources and opportunities for new programs to flourish. The envisioned cultural transformation will increase the creativity, equity, relevance, and impact of geoscience.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.