GP-UP: Project RESTORES (Retention of Earth Science Trainees through Opportunities in Restoration and Environmental Sciences)

高度城市化的沿海地区，如纽约市大都市区，是美国最容易受到海平面上升影响的地区。这些地区的海岸地球科学家将在帮助恢复和准备海岸环境方面有很高的需求，但培养多样化和有才华的劳动力以满足这一需求的挑战仍然存在。项目RESTORES（通过恢复和环境科学的机会保留地球科学学员）建立在关于历史上被排除在STEM中的学生需求的证据基础上，并实施了通过从高中到职业的地球科学途径支持这些学生的最佳实践。PI计划利用莫洛伊学院在招募多元化STEM学生团体方面取得的成功，为沿海地球科学教育创造新的机会。目标“招聘”学校的人口统计数据确保该项目将有助于缩小劳动力需求与即将毕业的地球科学学生技能之间的差距。该项目旨在培养能够帮助沿海生态系统为我们不断变化的世界中的气候变化和其他压力做好准备的地球科学专业人员。RESTORES的总体目标是增加地球科学学生的数量;保留历史上被排除在STEM之外的学生的高比例;建立可持续支持这些学生的教师和机构能力;并培养高素质的地球科学毕业生，以满足项目领域对这些专业人员日益增长的需求。RESTORES需要三个目标来支持这些目标：1）实施和评估有针对性的招聘活动，以在三年内将地球科学入学率提高55%; 2）制定一个强有力的框架，以支持和留住教育-职业管道中的参与者;和3）为项目参与者提供严格的地球科学研究经验。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，被认为是值得的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来提供支持。

Highly urbanized coastal areas—such as the New York City metropolitan area—are among the nation’s most susceptible to the effects of sea-level rise. Coastal geoscientists in these areas will be in high demand to help restore and prepare coastal environments, yet the challenge of producing a diverse and talented workforce to match this need remains. Project RESTORES (Retention of Earth Science Trainees through Opportunities in Restoration and Environmental Sciences) builds on a body of evidence regarding the needs of students who have been historically excluded in STEM and implements best practices for supporting these students through geoscience pathways from high school to careers. The PIs plan to leverage Molloy College’s established success in recruiting a diverse STEM student body to forge new opportunities in coastal geoscience education. The demographics of the targeted "recruitment" schools ensure the project will help close the gap between workforce needs and the skills of graduating geoscience students. The project seeks to produce geoscience professionals capable of helping to prepare coastal ecosystems for climate change and other stressors in our changing world. The overarching goals of RESTORES are to increase the number of students in the geosciences; retain a high rate of students who have historically been excluded in STEM; build faculty and institutional capacity that supports these students sustainably; and produce highly qualified geoscience graduates to fulfill the growing need for these professionals in the project area. RESTORES entails three objectives in support of these goals: 1) to implement and evaluate targeted recruitment activities to increase geosciences enrollment by 55% over three years; 2) to develop a robust framework to support and retain participants in the education-career pipeline; and 3) to provide rigorous geosciences research experiences for project participants.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.