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

实施补助金：将社区复原力纳入地球系统科学学习生态系统（CRESSLE）

• 批准号: 2228205
• 负责人: Jay Banner
• 金额: $ 705.73万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228205&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; grant; Community; Resilience; integrated

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.

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社区。该生态系统将理论和成功实践与四种整合策略相结合：1）发现研究，评估MMG社区和UT地球科学家的资产和需求，2）实践社区，加入COHORTS中的UT和MMG社区，以解决三个研究主题（水资源，水资源，气候及格和社区）的研究，并培训了培训科学的研究，并培训了培训科学的研究，3）培训的研究范围，3）培训的研究范围，探讨了探索的范围，探讨了依据的研究，探讨了探索的范围。 4）开发非正式地球科学学习经验由同伙共同设计。这四种策略将建立由实践社区制定的严格而包容的参与研究（PR）计划，该计划将共同设计和共同制作研究，以应对以环境正义为中心的社区韧性和可持续性挑战。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，以面对影响水，气候和景观自然资源的社区的韧性和可持续性。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弹性的想法，可以产生四个关键的结果：1）增加MMG人员在地球科学职业中的参与度； 2）提高研究生产力和早期职业地球科学家的职业途径； 3）产生持久的大学社区伙伴关系，以及4）帮助了解邻里规模上的环境正义问题和潜在的解决方案。在国家规模上，一定偏见的制度和文化行动的悠久历史导致地球科学/地球系统科学学科中MMG群体的代表性不足。在同一时期，德克萨斯州奥斯汀的大致偏见的社区和城市规划的历史导致MMG群体隔离到遭受不成比例的环境影响的社区。项目负责人认为，克雷斯尔（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-MMG社区联系，以及用于PR和非正式的地球科学学习经验，从而促进并改变地球科学的干地球科学学科来提高MMG社区使用地球科学来解决弹性问题的能力。项目负责人将开发一个最佳实践模型，该模型将在本地和全国范围内传播，并通过公关机会，专业发展培训和心理发展来支持早期职业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，以增强MMG社区在地球科学公关中的参与，2）获得机构和社区认可以及私人/公司的支持，以超越NSF支持； 3）“正常化”的Cressle活动是改变地球科学社区文化的一步。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，认为通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。