Planning: SOEST Wahine Awards

夏威夷大学（UH）海洋与地球科学与技术学院（SOEST）是夏威夷州培养地球科学毕业生最多的学院。这一计划赠款将资助SOEST Wahine奖的初步构想，这是一个新的竞争性小额赠款计划，旨在支持SOEST的女性（Wahine）教职员工、博士后和学生的专业发展活动。关注女性的理由是为了创造公平的学术竞争环境，因为系统性的性别差异往往会影响女性以与男性相同的速度取得成就和进步的能力。该项目以现有的美国国家科学基金会地球路径奖为基础，在两个重要方面进行了扩展：(1)为国内流离失所者所包括的活动提供财政支持；(2)将获得专业发展基金的资格从学生扩大到女性博士后、教职员工。夏威夷大学海洋与地球科学与技术学院（SOEST） Wahine奖将是一个小型的竞争性资助项目，将支持SOEST女性的专业发展活动，特别是女性学员和导师。妇女科学技术基金会Wahine奖的首要目标是通过实现以下四个目标来支持妇女的职业发展：(1)资助提高妇女技术或专业技能的活动；(2)提高妇女获得未来资金的能力；(3)扩大和加强妇女在SOEST基层组织和SOEST指导网络；(4)扩大女性在地球科学领域的参与，包括夏威夷原住民、太平洋岛民和其他未被充分代表的有色人种女性。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 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.