Conference: Networks of success to broaden participation in the environmental sciences.

由于全球变化破坏了地球的气候、生物多样性、水资源和粮食系统，需要更加多样化和包容性的科学团队来制定可持续的环境解决方案。该奖项将通过以下方式扩大科学参与：1)1对1和同伴指导计划的发展，2)学术职业发展网络研讨会，以及3)旨在加强科学网络和建立跨学科合作的会议，涉及生态学，进化，环境微生物学，地球科学，大气和海洋科学。会议将邀请环境领袖、早期职业教师和环境科学领域的学员齐聚一堂，进行交流和领导力培训。这个项目旨在帮助从少数群体中留住科学家。该奖项将提供有关如何晋升并在领导岗位上取得成功的培训；它将帮助参与者建立新的网络和新的科学合作；而且，它将为提高指导技能创造机会。社区建设、合作建设和专业发展的影响将改善科学领导职位的保留和晋升。来自政府、工业界、学术界和非政府组织的报告都得出结论，缺乏人类多样性对整个科学界来说代价高昂，而扩大参与对所有利益相关者都有利。美国是一个多元化的国家，但这种多样性并没有反映在环境科学家的人数上，特别是在更高级别的环境科学家中。大学、机构和专业协会的环境科学领导职位并不能反映更广泛的人群。扩大科学参与的循证方法包括与文化相适应的指导、获得机会、领导力培训以及在脆弱的摩擦点进行干预。该项目将这些方法与为期一年的指导、网络和专业发展规划相结合。利用现有的科学组织联合起来，形成可持续的网络，促进跨领域的科学合作。所有这些活动的目的都是为了提升环境科学家的水平，防止人员流失，并为处于职业生涯早期和中期的研究人员提供领导和晋升的机会。本项目由环境生物学部、生物基础设施学部、综合有机体系统学部-共生感染与免疫项目、分子与细胞生物科学学部-系统与合成生物学项目以及海洋科学学部-生物海洋学项目支持。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。

As global change disrupts Earth’s climate, biodiversity, water resources, and food systems, more diverse and inclusive science teams are needed to develop sustainable environmental solutions. This award will broaden participation in science through: 1) the development of 1-on-1 and peer mentorship programs, 2) academic career advancement webinars, and 3) a conference designed to strengthen scientific networks and build interdisciplinary collaborations across ecology, evolution, environmental microbiology, the geosciences, and atmospheric and marine sciences. The meeting will invite environmental leaders, early career faculty, and trainees across the environmental sciences to come together for networking and leadership training. This project aims to help retain scientists from minoritized groups. This award will provide training on how to advance to, and succeed at, leadership positions; it will help participants build new networks and new science collaborations; and, it will create opportunities for advancing mentorship skills. The impacts of community-building, collaboration-building and professional development will improve retention and advancement into science leadership positions. Reports from government, industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations have all concluded that a lack of human diversity is costly to the entire science community, and that broadening participation benefits all stakeholders. The United States is a diverse nation, yet this diversity is not reflected in the population of environmental scientists, particularly at higher ranks. Environmental science leadership positions in universities, agencies, and professional societies do not reflect the broader population. Among the evidence-based approaches to broaden participation in science are culturally-appropriate mentorship, access to opportunities, leadership training, and interventions at vulnerable points of attrition. This project blends these approaches with year-long mentorship, networking, and professional development programming. Existing science organizations are leveraged to unite and form sustainable networks that catalyze cross-cutting scientific collaborations. All of these activities are designed with the intention of uplifting environmental scientists, combating attrition, and launching early- and mid-career researchers toward leadership and advancement.This project is supported by the Division of Environmental Biology, the Division of Biological Infrastructure, the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems - Symbiosis Infection & Immunity program, the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences - Systems and Synthetic Biology program, and the Division of Ocean Sciences - Biological Oceanography program.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.