Collaborative Research: Implementation Grant: Leading Inclusive Transformation in Geoscience via an Intercultural Network of Learning Ecosystems - LIT GEO

通过领先的包容性地球科学转型(LIT GEO)计划，来自北卡罗来纳中央大学、波多黎各-阿雷西博大学和东卡罗来纳大学的地球科学家将建立一个研究和学习生态系统的跨文化网络。通过利用不同学术机构的优势，LIT GEO将制定提高认识的战略，以促进地球科学中具有文化变革意义的实践。该项目将深入了解能力建设方案如何有助于创造包容的环境，使不同的研究生和博士后学者能够在地球科学领域从事长期的职业生涯。LIT GEO的研究机会将集中在北卡罗来纳州和波多黎各的社区地球科学。LIT GEO将通过以下方式支持研究、培训和指导：(I)进入研究生学习的学士后(PB)过渡计划，(Ii)硕士(MS)计划，(Iii)在教学、指导和研究方面与文化相关的方法方面的博士后(PD)和教师培训，以及(Iv)社区成员的专业发展。LIT GEO将支持：35名PB、16名硕士学生、4名来自不同背景的PD学者和20名教职员工参与社区培训和研究。每年，队列将由17名学生和PD学者组成，在5年内总共有55名非教职员工参与者。以社区需求为中心的地学研究将为居民提供切实的成果，同时展示地学的社会价值。LIT GEO将支持社区组织的能力建设，通过公平的伙伴关系模式将社区和学术研究人员联系起来。该网络将创建跨机构和与社区合作和包容的指导环境的长期结构。LIT GEO将以5项能力(多样性、社区科学、沟通、领导力和数据素养)为基础，提供能力建设。北卡罗来纳州和北卡罗来纳州的跨文化峰会将与面临环境挑战的社区合作，提供培训、讲习班和实地经验。全年的活动将包括通过新兴的地球科学学者研讨会系列与来自不同文化和背景的演讲者进行专业发展，应用核心能力的讲习班，以及扩大参与者体验和建立信任环境和文化归属感的队列建设活动。机构协议将产生文化转型过程，使实习计划、指导、研究和建立研究生课程能够通过网络访问课程，最大限度地提高机构之间的教师贡献。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。

Through the Leading Inclusive Transformation in the Geosciences (LIT GEO) program, geoscientists from North Carolina Central University, University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo, and East Carolina University will develop an Intercultural Network of research and Learning Ecosystems. By leveraging the strengths of different academic institutions, LIT GEO will develop awareness strategies to contribute to culturally transformative practices in geoscience. This project will provide insight into how capacity building programs contribute to creating inclusive environments enabling diverse graduate students and post-doctoral scholars to pursue long-term careers in geoscience. Research opportunities in LIT GEO will center on community-based geoscience in North Carolina and Puerto Rico. LIT GEO will support research, training, and mentoring via: (i) a post-baccalaureate (PB) bridge program into graduate study, (ii) Master’s (MS) programs, (iii) post-doctoral (PD) and faculty training in culturally relevant methodologies in teaching, mentoring, and research, and (iv) professional development for community members. LIT GEO will support: 35 PB, 16 MS students, and 4 PD scholars from diverse backgrounds and 20 faculty participating in training and research with communities. Yearly, cohorts will consist of 17 students and PD scholars, with a total of 55 non-faculty participants over 5 years. Geoscience research centered around community needs will provide tangible outcomes to residents while demonstrating the societal value of geoscience. LIT GEO will support capacity building of community organizations to connect communities and academic researchers via equitable models of partnership. The network will create long-lasting structures of cooperative and inclusive mentoring environments across institutions and with communities. LIT GEO will build upon 5 competencies (diversity, community science, communication, leadership, and data literacy) to provide capacity building. Intercultural Summits in NC and PR will provide training, workshops, and field experiences in partnership with communities facing environmental challenges. Activities throughout the year will include professional development with speakers from diverse cultures and backgrounds via an Emerging Geoscience Scholars Seminar Series, workshops that apply the core competencies, and cohort building activities that expand participant experiences and build trusting environments and cultural belonging. Institutional agreements will generate cultural transformational processes to enable internship programs, mentorship, research, and building graduate curriculum with access to courses across the network, maximizing faculty contributions among institutions.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.