Collaborative Research: FieldSafe - Changing the Culture of Fieldwork in the Geosciences

实地研究是许多地球科学研究项目的组成部分，可能会给科学家和其他参与者带来独特的挑战。实地考察通常是在团队中进行的，其中包括知名研究人员和他们的学生，这引入了复杂的动力动力学。这些情况造成了挑战和压力，增加了对敌对行为的脆弱性，如欺凌、骚扰和其他基于身份的排他性行为。解决实地活动中的安全、基于身份的骚扰和其他排他性行为的需要越来越迫切，以确保安全和富有成效的研究环境。这项工作通过加强实地工作队的准备工作和改变实地工作队的文化，使之成为包容、支持、欢迎、无歧视和富有成效的，从而支持实地地球科学界。该项目是FieldSafe和ADVANCEGeo伙伴关系之间的协同努力，以支持研究人员满足NSF关于将现场安全计划纳入所有实地提案的新提案要求，并支持其他研究资助机构和学术机构的机构改革倡议。这个项目的目标是(1)通过一个在线课程平台创建并广泛传播一个现场安全、反骚扰和旁观者干预培训证书计划；(2)开发一个工具包来支持现场团队规划安全和包容性的现场活动；以及(3)研究这些培训和支持工具对改变现场文化的影响。这一项目产生了关于方案有效性的新知识，该方案利用自定进度的在线课程与同步指导的汇报和反思课程相结合，以支持在所有外地环境中发展包容性文化。该项目的成果将有助于为研究田野工作的文化和安全提供可靠和可移植的研究设计和工具。这项研究将围绕培训的教学顺序和实施的关键组成部分以及培训的应用如何根据不同的领域背景而变化做出重要的发现。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Field-based research is integral to many geoscience research programs and can present unique challenges for scientists and other participants. Fieldwork is often conducted in teams that include established researchers and their students, which introduces complex power dynamics. These conditions create challenges and stressors that increase vulnerability to hostile behaviors such as bullying, harassment, and other identity-based exclusionary behaviors. The need to address safety, identity-based harassment and other exclusionary behaviors in field campaigns is growing more urgent to ensure safe and productive research environments. This work supports the field-based geoscience community by increasing field team preparedness and changing fieldwork team culture to be inclusive, supportive, welcoming, discrimination-free and productive. The project is a synergistic effort between FieldSafe and the ADVANCEGeo Partnership to support researchers in meeting the new NSF proposal requirement for the inclusion of a field safety plan in all field-based proposals, and to support institutional change initiatives in other research funding agencies and at academic institutions. This is especially novel because, to date, no research has been conducted on the effectiveness of training focused on field safety and/or anti-harassment and tools for the design of inclusive field campaigns.The goals of this project are to (1) create and widely disseminate a field safety, anti-harassment, and bystander intervention training certificate program through an online course platform, (2) develop a toolkit to support field teams in planning safe and inclusive field campaigns and (3) research the impact of these trainings and support tools for field culture change. This project produces new knowledge of the effectiveness of a program that utilizes a combined self-paced online course combined with synchronous guided debrief and reflection sessions to support the development of inclusive culture in all field environments. The results of this project will contribute a robust and transferable research design and instruments to study the culture and safety of fieldwork. The research will contribute important findings around critical components for the instructional sequence and implementation of training and how the application of this training may vary based on different field contexts.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.