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

随着全球变化扰乱地球的气候、生物多样性、水资源和食品系统，需要更多样化和包容性更强的科学团队来开发可持续的环境解决方案。该奖项将通过以下方式扩大对科学的参与：1)发展一对一和同行指导计划，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、进化论、环境微生物学、地球科学以及大气和海洋科学。会议将邀请环境领导者、早期职业教师和环境科学领域的实习生齐聚一堂，进行网络和领导力培训。该项目旨在帮助留住小规模群体中的科学家。该奖项将提供如何晋升到领导职位并取得成功的培训；它将帮助参与者建立新的网络和新的科学合作；它将为提高指导技能创造机会。社区建设、协作建设和专业发展的影响将改善留住和晋升为科学领导职位的情况。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是代价高昂的，扩大参与对所有利益攸关方都有利。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群体中，特别是在更高级别的科学家身上。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。在扩大科学参与的循证方法中，包括适合文化的指导、获得机会、领导力培训和对易受磨损点的干预。该项目将这些方法与为期一年的指导、网络和职业发展规划相结合。利用现有的科学组织来联合和形成可持续的网络，以促进交叉科学合作。所有这些活动的目的都是为了提升环境科学家，对抗自然流失，并推动职业生涯早期和中期的研究人员走向领导和进步。该项目得到了环境生物学部门、生物基础设施部门、综合组织系统部门-共生感染与免疫计划、分子和细胞生物科学部门-系统和合成生物学计划以及海洋科学部门-生物海洋学计划的支持。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。

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.