Planning: SOEST Wahine Awards

夏威夷大学（UH）海洋和地球科学与技术学院（索斯特）是夏威夷州最大的地球科学毕业生生产商。这项规划赠款将资助索斯特瓦欣奖的初步概念化，这是一项新的竞争性小额赠款方案，旨在支持索斯特妇女（瓦欣）教职员工、博士后和学生的专业发展活动。注重妇女的理由是为了创造一个平等的学术竞争环境，因为系统性的性别差距往往会影响妇女以与男子相同的速度取得成就和进步的能力。 该项目以两个重要的方式建立在现有的NSF GEOPATHS奖的基础上：（1）在财政上支持国内流离失所者所包括的活动;（2）扩大专业发展资金的资格，使其不仅限于学生，还包括妇女博士后、教师和工作人员。夏威夷大学（UH）海洋与地球科学与技术学院（索斯特）瓦欣奖将是一个小型的、有竞争力的赠款项目，这将支持索斯特妇女的职业发展活动，特别是妇女学员和导师。索斯特瓦欣奖的总体目标是通过实现以下四个目标来支持妇女的职业发展：（1）为提高妇女技术或专业技能的活动提供资金;（2）提高妇女获得未来资金的能力;（3）扩大和加强妇女参与索斯特基层组织和索斯特指导网络;（4）加强妇女参与社会经济和社会发展的能力。以及（4）广泛参与地球科学的妇女，包括夏威夷土著人、太平洋岛民和其他代表性不足的有色人种妇女。该奖项反映了NSF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 University of Hawai‘i’s (UH) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) is the State of Hawai‘i’s largest producer of geoscience graduates. This planning grant will fund the initial conceptualization of the SOEST Wahine Awards, a new competitive small grants program, to support professional development activities of women (wahine) faculty, staff, post-doc and students in the at SOEST. The justification for focusing on women is to level the academic playing field, as systematic gender disparities tend to impact women’s ability to achieve and advance at the same rate as men. This project builds out from an existing NSF GEOPAths award in two important ways: (1) financially supporting the activities included in IDPs and (2) broadening the eligibility for professional development funding beyond students to include women post-docs, faculty and staff.University of Hawai‘i’s (UH) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) Wahine Awards will be a small, competitive grants program, which will support professional development activities for women in SOEST, particularly for the women mentees and mentors. The overarching goal of SOEST Wahine Awards is to support women’s career development by engaging in the following four objectives: (1) Fund activities that enhance women’s technical or professional skills; (2) Enhance women’s ability to secure future funding; (3) Expand and strengthen the Women-in-SOEST grassroots organization and the SOEST mentoring network; and (4) Broaden participation of women in geoscience, including Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and other underrepresented women of color.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.