Travel Support for Capacity Building: the Coastal And Ocean STEM Equity Alliance

印第安纳大学宾夕法尼亚研究所将组织大约10名沿海和海洋STEM公平联盟（COSEA）实践社区的成员参加2023年湖沼学和海洋学科学协会（ASLO）的水生科学会议。参与者来自不同的机构和州，包括宾夕法尼亚州、佐治亚州、俄勒冈州、加利福尼亚州和哥伦比亚特区。COSEA旨在与更广泛的受众分享有关扩大参与地球科学问题的信息，确定协同作用，并规划未来的项目，以确保海岸和海洋科学界受到欢迎并蓬勃发展。ASLO23将为COSEA成员提供机会，利用国际水生科学同行，反思参与沿海和海洋科学的共同问题和障碍。COSEA实践社区正在提供专业网络，促进跨部门的文化变革，并为对话和共同创造提供无障碍和包容的空间，以塑造沿海和海洋科学的未来。COSEA支持建立更多样化的海洋和沿海劳动力队伍，并支持科学家与所有社区，特别是沿海社区进行更密切的接触。COSEA实践社区的重点是平等的总体主题，包括归属、机会、正义、公平、多样性和包容等问题，这些问题在国际上具有重要意义，但由于社会文化和历史原因，这些问题在区域内的特点各不相同。COSEA可以更广泛地作为水生科学和地球科学研究企业的示范实践社区。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。

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute will organize travel for approximately ten members of the Coastal and Ocean STEM Equity Alliance (COSEA) community-of-practice to attend the 2023 Aquatic Sciences Meeting of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, (ASLO). Participants are from various institutions and states, including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Oregon, California, and the District of Columbia. COSEA aims to share information about issues of broadening participation in geosciences with a wider audience, to identify synergies, and to plan future projects to ensure that the Coastal and Ocean Sciences community is welcoming and thriving. ASLO23 will provide COSEA members with the opportunity to leverage the international community of aquatic science colleagues to reflect on the common issues and barriers to participation in coastal and ocean sciences. The COSEA community-of-practice is providing professional networking, promoting culture change across sectors, and fostering an accessible and inclusive space for dialogue and co-creation to shape the future of coastal and ocean sciences. COSEA supports the creation of a more diverse ocean and coastal workforce and closer engagement of scientists with all communities, especially coastal communities. The COSEA community-of-practice is focused on the overarching theme of equity, including issues of belonging, access, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion that are internationally important and that vary in character regionally for socio-cultural and historical reasons. COSEA can serve as a model community-of-practice for the aquatic sciences and the geoscience research enterprise more broadly.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.