Collaborative Research: EAGER: Scaling Necessary Change, Coalitions and Community (SNC): brave leadership for better geoscience"

1972年，地球科学家Randolph Bromery博士主持了“第一次少数民族参与地球科学和矿物工程全国会议”，300多名来自学术界、工业界、政府和民权组织的代表参加了这次会议。会议的目标是扩大参与并支持黑人、土著和拉丁裔地球科学家的成功。尽管有这一目标，但要实现应对一些国家最紧迫的环境挑战所需的多样性水平，地球科学界还有很长的路要走。该项目将制定一个学术的、社区驱动的、前瞻性的路线图，机构、资助机构、行业和公众可以利用这个路线图，在未来半个世纪里为扩大地球科学参与的普遍利益目标做出贡献。培养多样化的地球科学家队伍对于满足日益增长的对强大的地球科学劳动力的需求至关重要，这些劳动力可以应对21世纪自然灾害、全球变化和能源带来的社会挑战。然而，历史上为实现这一目标所做的努力被大多数地球科学家、科学界和广大公众所忽视或遗忘。为了在地球科学领域实现实质性和持久的人口变化，研究界必须了解过去为促进正义所做的努力，并利用这些努力为今后50年的发展提供新的途径，并建立问责机制。为了编写路线图报告，该项目将首先召集地球科学界召开“第二次全国会议”，审查过去50年来推动扩大地球科学参与的努力。会议召开后，该项目将成立一个由20名早期职业地球科学家组成的小组，共同撰写并提交路线图报告。该项目采用了一种新颖的方法，因为早期职业学者通常不会在如此大规模的社区范围内的努力中发挥主导作用。项目负责人和20人的写作团队将是早期职业的专业人士。如果取得成功，该项目将为在地球科学领域实现更公正、公平、多样性和包容性提供新的创新途径。该项目提出了一个全新的战略，以勇敢的领导为中心，以实现在地球科学社区中广泛参与的目标。通过借鉴黑人研究的原则以及社会科学和人文科学的其他框架，该项目将采用一种新颖的跨学科方法，并建立基于证据和经验的策略，以扩大参与，扩大对地球科学历史、现状和未来的理解。为了确保在未来几十年实现扩大参与的目标方面取得进展，地球科学界需要一个路线图，该路线图将提供检查点、战略和问责制。为了创建这一路线图，主要研究者（pi）将(1)召集一次会议，由学术界、工业界、专业组织和政府机构的利益相关者、代表和领导人参加。参与者将反思过去推进JEDI目标的努力，并培养伙伴关系，以支持新的机构和社区目标。然后，pi将(2)确定一个由20名早期职业领导者组成的团队来编写“2072报告”。编写报告将是一次独特的专业发展经历，将为下一代地球科学领导者提供在该领域实现持久变革所需的工具、框架和伙伴关系。该项目采用了一种新颖的方法，因为早期职业学者通常不会在如此大规模的社区范围内的努力中发挥主导作用。项目负责人和20人的写作团队将是早期职业的专业人士。如果取得成功，该项目将为在地球科学领域实现更公正、公平、多样性和包容性提供新的创新途径。这项工作的一个主要成果将是共同创建一个社区驱动的框架，以实现一个公正、多样化和公平的地球科学社区。它将包括扩大参与的最佳做法、工具和想法；确保社区走上正轨的检查点和目标；以及确保未来50年问责制的战略。该路线图将为地球科学界提供直接的机会，让他们思考在两年内可以实现什么，在五年或十年的战略计划中哪些是可行的，以及这些组成部分如何为根本的、可持续的、系统性的变化提供基石。另一个结果将是建立一批早期职业地球科学家，他们致力于在追求学术职位的同时，将自己的职业生涯奉献给改变地球科学景观。这将鼓励跨地球科学的新颖和跨学科的研究方向。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

In 1972, geoscientist Dr. Randolph Bromery chaired the ‘First National Conference on Minority Participation in Earth Science and Mineral Engineering’, a gathering of more than 300 representatives of academia, industry, government, and civil rights organizations. The goal of the conference was to broaden participation and support the success of Black, Native, and Latinx geoscientists. Despite this goal, the geoscience community remains a long way from achieving the level of diversity needed to tackle some of the nation’s most pressing environmental challenges. This project will develop a scholarly, community-driven, forward-looking roadmap that institutions, funding agencies, industry, and the public can use to contribute to the universally beneficial goal of broadening participation in the geosciences over the next half century. Training a diverse cohort of geoscientists is essential to meeting the growing demands for a robust geoscience workforce that can address the societal challenges posed by natural hazards, global change, and energy in the 21st century. However, historical efforts to advance this goal have been ignored or forgotten among most geoscientists, the scientific community, and the broader public. To make substantive and lasting demographic change in the geosciences, the research community must understand past efforts to advance justice and use them to inform new ways forward and to establish mechanisms for accountability over the next fifty years. To develop the roadmap report, this project will first convene the geoscience community at a ‘Second National Conference’ to examine the past fifty years of efforts to advance broadening participation in the geosciences. Following the convening, the project will form a group of twenty early-career geoscientists that will co-author and deliver the roadmap report. This project has a novel approach as early-career scholars usually are not in the leading role of such large community-wide efforts. The project leads and the twenty-person writing team will be early career professionals. If successful, this project will provide the new and innovative ways forward towards achieving more justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the geosciences.This project advances a radically new strategy, centered on brave leadership, to achieve broadening participation goals in the geoscience community. By drawing on tenets of Black studies and other frameworks from social science and humanities, this project will take a novel, interdisciplinary approach and establish evidence and experience-based strategies for broadening participation that expand the understanding of the history, current state, and future of geoscience. To ensure that progress is made on reaching the goals for broadening participation in the coming decades, the geoscience community needs a roadmap that will provide checkpoints, strategies, and accountability. To create this roadmap, principal investigators (PIs) will (1) convene a conference with participation from stakeholders, representatives, and leaders across academia, industry, professional organizations, and government agencies. Participants will reflect on past efforts to advance JEDI goals and cultivate partnerships to support new institutional and community goals. Then, PIs will (2) identify a team of twenty early-career leaders to develop ‘The 2072 Report’. Developing the report will be a unique professional development experience that will equip the next generation of geoscience leaders with tools, frameworks, and partnerships necessary for making lasting change in the field. This project has a novel approach as early-career scholars usually are not in the leading role of such large community-wide efforts. The project leads and the twenty-person writing team will be early career professionals. If successful, this project will provide the new and innovative ways forward towards achieving more justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the geosciences. A primary outcome of this work will be the co-creation of a community-driven framework for achieving a just, diverse, and equitable geoscience community. It will include best practices, tools, and ideas for broadening participation; checkpoints and goals that will keep the community on track; and strategies for ensuring accountability over the next fifty years. This roadmap will provide the geoscience community with direct opportunities for reflection on what can be achieved in two years, what is feasible in a five- or ten-year strategic plan, and how those components can provide building blocks towards fundamental, sustainable, systemic change. Another outcome will be the establishment of a cohort of early-career geoscientists who are committed to dedicating their careers to transforming the geoscience landscape while they pursue academic positions. This will encourage novel and interdisciplinary research directions across geosciences.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.