Planning: BRAID-CMC Alliance Workshop

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所将领导一项规划工作，旨在促进八家拥有海洋和气候科学项目的美国少数群体服务机构(MSI)与位于马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的六家海洋和气候科学研究机构之间建立新的研究和教育合作伙伴关系。这14个机构，连同一个种族平等研究小组，其成员来自南卡罗来纳大学、塞勒姆州立大学、乔治梅森大学和坦普尔大学，以及来自其他机构的促进者、附属机构和评估员，将组成BRAIDC-MC联盟(将气候和海洋事业多样化的盟友聚集在一起)。该联盟的长期目标是为美国的MSI和气候和海洋科学研究机构开发一个不断发展的生态系统，这些机构可以就提交给地球科学理事会的GeoPATHS和/或GOLD-EN计划以及NSF Includes计划的建议进行合作。这些建议的重点将是共同制定战略，扩大在海洋和气候科学学科中代表性仍然不足的教职员工、学生和劳动力的参与和成功。规划项目将汇集来自广泛机构的代表，专注于为美国MSI和其他气候和海洋科学研究机构创建一个网络和合作。规划工作将在辫子-CMC联盟内建立具体的伙伴关系，该联盟将反过来发起具体努力，制定NSF提案，以增加MSI教职员工和学生获得国家海洋和气候科学研究资源的机会。已经确定了一个指导委员会，并由表示有兴趣领导规划进程并了解机构合作最佳做法和种族不平等背后的社会科学的编织成员组成。规划活动包括建立信任和关系的“工具箱”会议，跨越边界和网络发展活动，以及跨机构合作和拨款撰写活动。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。

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will lead a planning effort that is specifically designed to foster new research and educational partnerships between eight US minority-serving institutions (MSIs) that have programs in marine and climate science and a cluster of six marine and climate science research institutions located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These fourteen institutions, along with a Racial Equity Research team whose members come from the University of South Carolina, Salem State University, George Mason University, and Temple University, and with facilitators, affiliates, and evaluators from addition institutions, will form the BRAIDC-MC Alliance (BRinging together Allies In Diversifying Climate and Marine Careers). The long-term goal of this Alliance is to develop an evolving ecosystem for US MSIs and research institutions in climate and marine science that can collaborate on proposals to be submitted to the Directorate of Geosciences’ GeoPATHS and/or GOLD-EN programs and the NSF INCLUDES Program. The focus of these proposals will be to co-create strategies for broadening participation and success of the faculty, students, and workforces who remain underrepresented in the marine and climate science disciplines.The planning project will bring together representatives from a wide range of institutions to focus on creating a network and collaboration for US MSIs and other research institutions in climate and marine science. The planning effort will concrete partnerships within the BRAID-CMC Alliance, which will in turn initiate specific efforts to develop NSF proposals to increase MSI faculty and student access to national marine and climate science research resources. A Steering Committee has been identified and is assembled from BRAID members who expressed interest in leading the planning process and who are knowledgeable about best practices in institutional collaborations and the social science behind racial inequity. The planning activities include a “Toolbox” session to build trust and relationships, boundary spanning and network development activities, and cross-institution collaboration and grant writing activities.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.