Special Issue of Oceanography: Building Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Ocean Sciences

海洋学学会（TOS）将出版开放获取期刊《海洋学》的一期特刊，题为“在海洋科学中建立多样性、公平和包容性”，其中强调了机构支持的项目和倡议的成功和经验教训，这些项目和倡议的重点是增加来自代表性不足和边缘化群体的学者的数量，这些学者选择海洋科学作为自己的职业。本期特刊将探讨代表性不足和被边缘化的学者所面临的结构性和文化障碍，并为实施有意义的变革提供成功的策略，以改善多样性、公平性和包容性。在线增刊将包含来自不同背景的海洋科学家的自传简介，类似于2005年和2014年在《海洋学》杂志上发表的非常成功的“海洋学女性”简介，这些简介激励了一代女性海洋学家。提议的特刊有三个主要目标：(1)作为在海洋科学中建立多样性、公平性和包容性的资源；(2)激励个人和机构认真审查实践，并致力于有意义的积极变革，以实现真正公平、包容和多样化的海洋科学领域；(3)鼓励未被充分代表和边缘化群体的学者成为并保持海洋科学家。文章、侧边栏和简介的集合将为准备采取必要措施增加和保持其队伍中的多样性的机构提供有用的“手册”，确保海洋科学的充满活力、公平和包容的未来。海洋科学和一般的地球科学在各个层面都缺乏多样性。散布在已发表文献中的文章记录了过去40年来地球科学在增加多样性方面取得的最小进展。海洋学学会寻求出版一本汇编，其中包括由个人和团体撰写的邀请手稿，展示了不同科学家，学生，项目经理，文化从业者和教育者的真实声音和观点，他们在海洋科学的各个领域与不同的社区开展倡议和计划。一个重要的讨论将是进入、参与、成功和留在该领域的具体障碍。成功的策略，以吸引，招募，保留，支持和促进个人和团体来自不同背景的目标，聚集一个关键的资源，以改变主导的学术和劳动力文化将被强调。拥有真实声音的个人将被邀请通过一系列一页的自传体小品分享他们的故事，这些小品将放大多样性对卓越、创新、解决问题、创造力、商业头脑以及了解和分享知识的不同方式的重要性。本期《海洋学》特刊将提供一个连贯的纲要，可作为建立多样化海洋科学界的参考，并激励下一代代表性不足和被边缘化的学者成为并继续成为海洋科学家。为了确保在海洋科学和其他领域产生最大的影响，将在海洋学网站上提供免费的PDF全文，以及个别文章和自传小品。TOS将在出版时通过社交媒体、作者网络和会议推广这些材料，并将努力通知海洋和海洋科学项目的院长和主席本文件的可用性。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。

The Oceanography Society (TOS) will publish a special issue of the open-access journal Oceanography on “Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Ocean Sciences” that highlights the successes and lessons learned from agency-supported programs and initiatives focused on increasing the number of scholars from underrepresented and marginalized groups who choose the ocean sciences for their careers. The special issue will explore the structural and cultural barriers that underrepresented and marginalized scholars come up against and offer successful strategies for enacting meaningful changes to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. An online-only supplement will contain autobiographical sketches of ocean scientists from diverse backgrounds, similar to the highly successful “Women in Oceanography” profiles published in Oceanography in 2005 and 2014 that have inspired a generation of women oceanographers. The proposed special issue has three main goals: (1) to serve as a resource for building diversity, equity, and inclusion in the ocean sciences; (2) to inspire people and institutions to earnestly review practices and commit to meaningful positive changes to achieve a truly equitable, inclusive, and diverse ocean sciences field; and (3) to encourage scholars from underrepresented and marginalized groups to become and remain ocean scientists. The collection of articles, sidebars, and profiles will provide a useful “handbook” for institutions prepared to take the necessary steps to increase—and retain—diversity in their ranks, ensuring a vibrant, equitable, and inclusive future for the ocean sciences.The ocean sciences, and geosciences in general, lack diversity at all levels. Articles scattered throughout the published literature document the minimal progress toward increasing diversity in the geosciences over the last 40 years. The Oceanography Society seeks to publish a compendium that includes invited manuscripts written by individuals and groups that showcase authentic voices and perspectives of diverse scientists, students, program managers, cultural practitioners, and educators who are engaged in initiatives and programs with diverse communities in a variety of areas of ocean science. An important discussion will be the specific barriers to entry, participation, success, and retention in the field. Successful strategies to engage, recruit, retain, support, and advance individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds will be highlighted with the goal of assembling a critical resource for changing the dominant academic and workforce culture. Individuals with authentic voices will be invited to share their stories through a series of one-page autobiographical sketches that amplify the importance of diversity for excellence, innovation, problem solving, creativity, business acumen, and different ways of knowing and sharing knowledge. This special issue of Oceanography will provide a coherent compendium that can be used as a reference for building a diverse ocean sciences community and inspiration for the next generation of underrepresented and marginalized scholars to become—and remain—ocean scientists. To ensure the greatest impact within the ocean sciences and beyond, a freely available PDF of the full issue will be made available for download from the Oceanography website along with individual articles and autobiographical sketches. TOS will promote these materials through social media, authors’ networks at the time of publication, and at conferences, and will make an effort to notify the deans and chairs of marine and ocean science programs of the availability of this document.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.