Collaborative Research: IMPLEMENTATION: C-COAST: Changing the Culture of our Occupations to Achieve Systemic Transformation

沿海县比非沿海县更多样化;然而，那些研究和管理河口和海岸的人的文化和身份并不反映这些社区。这种不匹配降低了所提供的科学和管理的质量;许多沿海专业人员缺乏生活经验和知识来优先考虑对沿海地区人民最有影响的问题。尽管人们普遍认识到，增加在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）中代表性不足的群体的参与对于维持国家的创新和发现能力至关重要，但授予海洋科学研究生学位的总数与授予该领域代表性不足的人的学位之间的差距越来越大。专业协会在促进STEM学科的文化变革方面发挥着独特的作用，建立和加强规范和实践，促进更大的多样性，公平，包容，正义和可及性（DEIJA）。它们也是培训学生和专业人员掌握相关技能和发展其职业发展所需网络的重要途径。专业协会的文化变革会对成员、他们的家乡机构以及其他方面产生影响。沿海和河口研究联合会（CERF）将协助下一代沿海和河口生物学家及相关学科在当前文化中导航，同时通过改变我们的占领文化实现系统转型（C-COAST）计划，该计划将提供专业发展，指导，C-COAST计划将通过两个计划利用基于证据的战略来减轻沿海和河口科学中的不公平现象并改变文化：涨潮会议计划（RTCP）和领导力发展计划（LDP）。RTCP是面向招募和留住新一代的河口和沿海科学专业人员。它包括一个为期16个月的计划，支持参加中央应急基金和两个额外的沿海和河口会议，其间还举行了虚拟会议。该计划提供专业和近同行的导师，培训和网络，除了全套的科学会议产品。自民党将通过建立一个充满活力的学习社区，为当前和未来的领导人提供领导力和DEIJA培训，帮助新兴领导人成为变革的推动者，同时帮助当前领导人利用现有权力解决系统性不平等问题。C-COAST的目标，从短期到长期，是1）：招募和留住不同的本科生和研究生，并为他们提供专业发展，导师和同龄人网络，以支持归属感和认同感; 2）教育当前的领导者如何更具包容性，并改变导致不平等的政策和做法;和3）提高未来领导者的领导技能和机会，并使他们做好准备，使中央应急基金及其所在机构的政策和做法更具包容性，当他们被提升到权力位置时。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得支持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。

Coastal counties are more diverse than non-coastal counties; however, the culture and identities of those who study and manage estuaries and coasts do not reflect these communities. This mismatch diminishes the quality of science and management provided; many coastal professionals lack the lived experiences and knowledge to prioritize issues most impactful to people in coastal areas. Despite widespread recognition that increasing the participation of groups underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is essential to sustaining the nation's capacity for innovation and discovery, there is a widening gap between the total number of marine science graduate degrees granted and degrees granted to those underrepresented in the field. Professional societies play a unique role in facilitating culture change within STEM disciplines by establishing and reinforcing norms and practices that advance greater diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and accessibility (DEIJA). They are also important avenues for training students and professionals in relevant skills and in developing networks necessary to progress in their careers. Culture change in professional societies scales up to impacts on members, their home institutions, and beyond. The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) will assist the next generation of coastal and estuarine biologists and related disciplines in navigating the current culture while simultaneously dismantling inequities at the root of low DEIJA in the disciplines through the Changing the Culture of our Occupations to Achieve Systemic Transformation (C-COAST) program, which will provide professional development, mentoring, and networking to students and professionals at all career stages.The C-COAST program will harness evidence-based strategies to mitigate inequities and shift culture in the coastal and estuarine sciences through two programs: Rising TIDES Conference Program (RTCP) and Leadership Development Program (LDP). The RTCP is geared towards recruiting and retaining a new generation of estuarine and coastal science professionals. It consists of a 16-month program that supports attendance at the CERF and two additional coastal and estuarine conferences, with virtual meetings in between. The program provides professional and near-peer mentors, training, and networking, in addition to the full suite of scientific conference offerings. The LDP will provide leadership and DEIJA training for current and future leaders by building a dynamic learning community that will prepare emerging leaders to become agents of change while helping current leaders use existing power to address systemic inequities. The goals of C-COAST, from short- to long-term, are to 1): recruit and retain diverse undergraduate and graduate students and provide them professional development, mentorship, and peer networks to support a sense of belonging and identity; 2) educate current leaders on how to be more inclusive and change policies and practices that lead to inequities; and 3) increase the leadership skills of and opportunities for future leaders and prepare them to make policies and practices of CERF and their home institutions more inclusive when they are elevated to positions of power.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.