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，因此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和同行指导计划的发展，2）学术职业发展网络研讨会，以及3）旨在加强科学网络并建立跨学科合作的会议生态学，进化，环境微生物学，地球科学，大气和海洋科学。会议将邀请环境领导者，早期职业教师和环境科学的受训人员聚集在一起进行网络和领导力培训。该项目旨在帮助留住少数群体的科学家。该奖项将提供关于如何晋升并成功担任领导职位的培训;它将帮助参与者建立新的网络和新的科学合作;并且，它将为提高导师技能创造机会。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认为，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好处。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口中，特别是在较高的级别。大学、机构和专业协会中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文化上适当的指导、获得机会、领导力培训以及在易受影响的地方进行干预。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。现有的科学组织被用来联合和形成可持续的网络，促进跨领域的科学合作。所有这些活动的目的是提升环境科学家，打击自然减员，并推出早期和中期职业生涯的研究人员走向领导和进步。这个项目是由环境生物学部，生物基础设施部，综合有机体系统部-共生感染&免疫计划，分子和细胞生物科学部-系统和合成生物学计划，和海洋科学司-生物海洋学计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.