Implementation grant: Community Resilience integrated into an Earth System Science Learning Ecosystem (CRESSLE)

该奖项由2021年美国救援计划法案提供全部或部分资金（公法117-2）.项目CRESSLE，社区恢复力融入地球系统科学学习生态系统，将合作伙伴得克萨斯大学（UT）地球科学研究人员和社区成员创造一个学习环境，欢迎边缘化和少数民族（MMG）研究人员，社区成员，同时支持利用地球系统科学为社区服务的研究密切合作。该生态系统将理论和成功实践与四个综合战略相结合：1）发现研究，以评估MMG社区和UT地球科学家的资产和需求，2）实践社区，将UT和MMG社区加入队列，以解决围绕三个研究主题（水资源，气候恢复力和社区&景观）的问题，3）成功的科学家在驻地计划的进步，以培训和激励早期职业研究人员，和4）非正式的地球科学学习经验的发展，共同设计的同伙。这四个战略将建立一个严格的和包容性的研究（PR）计划，由实践社区促进，将共同设计和共同生产的研究，以解决社区的弹性和可持续性的挑战，以环境正义为中心。项目负责人将公关方法应用于长期存在的机构，文化和科学挑战，以应对对水，气候和景观等自然资源的影响的社区的复原力和可持续性。基于PR在其他学科中的成功，CRESSLE将测试PR整合四种策略并应用地球科学来解决环境恢复力可以产生四个关键成果的想法：1）增加MMG人员在地球科学职业中的参与; 2）提高研究生产力和早期职业地球科学家的职业道路; 3）建立持久的大学-社区伙伴关系，和4）帮助了解环境正义问题和潜在的解决方案，在邻里规模。在国家范围内有偏见的机构和文化行动导致MMG团体在地球科学/地球系统科学学科中的代表性不足。在同一时期，德克萨斯州奥斯汀的种族偏见社区和城市规划的历史导致MMG群体被隔离到受到不成比例的环境影响的社区。项目负责人认为，CRESSLE将改变地球科学界的文化，并通过增加地球科学劳动力的多样性、建立大学与MMG社区的联系以及推进公关和非正式方法来提高MMG社区利用地球科学解决弹性问题的能力。参与和改变地球科学STEM学科的地球科学学习体验。项目负责人将开发一个最佳实践模型，将在当地和全国范围内传播，并通过公关机会，专业发展培训和指导支持早期职业MMG研究人员的职业发展。职业发展和传播计划的目标是：1）扩大创新方法的实施，以加强MMG社区在地球科学PR中的参与，2）获得机构和社区的认可以及私人/公司的支持，以支持NSF支持之外的持续努力;和3）的方法“规范”CRESSLE活动，作为改变地球科学界文化的一步。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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 award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Project CRESSLE, Community Resilience integrated into an Earth System Science Learning Ecosystem, will partner University of Texas (UT) geoscience researchers and community members to create a learning environment that is welcoming to marginalized and minoritized (MMG) researchers, community members, and students while supporting close collaboration on research using Earth System Science in service of communities. This ecosystem integrates theory and successful practice with four integrated strategies: 1) Discovery Research, to assess assets and needs in both MMG communities and UT geoscientists, 2) a Community of Practice, joining UT and MMG communities in cohorts to address issues around three research themes (Water Resources, Climate Resilience, and Communities & Landscapes), 3) advancement of the successful Scientist in Residence program to train and inspire early career researchers, and 4) development of Informal Geoscience Learning experiences co-designed by the cohorts. These four strategies will build a rigorous and inclusive Participatory Research (PR) program facilitated by the Community of Practice that will co-design and co-produce research to address community resilience and sustainability challenges, centered on Environmental Justice. Project leaders apply a PR approach to long-standing institutional, cultural, and scientific challenges to the resilience and sustainability of communities facing impacts on the natural resources of water, climate, and landscapes. Based on the successes of PR in other disciplines, CRESSLE will test the idea that PR integrating the four strategies and applying geoscience to address environmental resilience can produce four key outcomes: 1) increase engagement of MMG persons in geoscience careers; 2) increase research productivity and career pathways for early career geoscientists; 3) produce enduring university-community partnerships, and 4) help understand environmental justice problems and potential solutions on the neighborhood scale.A long history of racially-biased institutional and cultural actions on national scales has led to underrepresentation of MMG groups in the discipline of geoscience/Earth System Science. Over the same period, a history of racially-biased community and city planning in Austin, TX led to the segregation of MMG groups into neighborhoods that have been subject to disproportionate environmental impacts. Project leaders argue that CRESSLE will transform the culture of the geoscience community and advance MMG communities’ ability to address resilience issues using geoscience by increasing the diversity of the geoscience workforce, building university-MMG community connections, and advancing methods for PR and informal geoscience learning experiences that engage and transform the STEM discipline of geoscience. Project leaders will develop a best practices model that will be disseminated locally and nationally and support career development of early-career MMG researchers through PR opportunities, professional development training, and mentoring. The goals of the career development and dissemination plan are to: 1) expand the implementation of the innovative approach to enhance engagement of MMG communities in geoscience PR, 2) gain institutional and community endorsement and private/corporate support for sustaining efforts beyond NSF support; and 3) ‘normalize’ CRESSLE activities as a step towards transforming the culture of the geoscience community.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.