RCN: GOLD-EN: Virtual Ice Community Engagement

尽管冰冻圈在过去十年中取得了显著增长，但与更广泛的地球科学一样，冰冻圈也未能实现多样化。为了解决冰冻圈科学缺乏多样性的问题，这一努力提供了一种干预措施，旨在培养一个具有共同价值观、规范和归属感的更具包容性的社区，作为冰冻圈社区内被边缘化的学者和盟友的支持和避难所。由于气候变化的影响，包括海平面上升，在社区一级得到了强烈的感受，最脆弱的人要么没有得到咨询，要么被排除在关键决策之外，缺乏多样性限制了我们建设一支未来教育工作者和研究人员队伍的能力，这是应对当地和全球气候变化挑战所必需的。该项目直接针对劳动力发展，以确保冰冻圈社区能够应对当前和即将到来的挑战。总体项目目标是为包容的冰冻圈社区提供结构支持，该社区支持所有职业阶段的边缘化学者，并更好地促进促进冰冻圈科学所需的跨学科和多学科研究。为了做到这一点，将建立冰冻圈科学学者的虚拟网络，称为虚拟冰雪社区参与队。这些小组将围绕社区感兴趣的主题或按地理区域组织，目的是支持和促进学者之间的合作。团队将是支持更有凝聚力的冰冻圈社区的关键节点，目标包括1)建立社区规范并阐明基于证据的DEI最佳实践，2)为不同职业阶段的学者提供专业发展和包容性领导力培训，以及3)为冰冻圈社区开发资源中心。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。

Despite significant growth over the past decade, the cryosphere community, like the broader geosciences, has failed to diversify. To address this lack of diversity in cryosphere sciences, this effort offers an intervention designed to foster a more inclusive community with shared values, norms, and a sense of belonging that can serve as both support and refugium for marginalized scholars and allies within the cryosphere community. Because the impacts of climate change, including sea-level rise, are acutely felt at the community level with the most vulnerable either not consulted or excluded from key decisions, the lack of diversity limits our ability to build a workforce of future educators and researchers necessary to address local to global challenges of climate change. This project is aimed directly at workforce development to ensure the cryosphere community is able to meet current and forthcoming challenges.The overarching project goal is to provide structural support for an inclusive cryosphere community that is supportive of marginalized scholars at all career stages and better positioned to facilitate inter-and-multidisciplinary research needed to advance the cryosphere sciences. To do this, virtual networks of cryosphere science scholars will be created, referred to as Virtual Ice Community Engagement Squads. These Squads will be organized around topics of interest to the community or by geographic region with the aim of supporting and fostering collaboration between scholars. The Squads will be key nodes in supporting a more cohesive cryosphere community through objectives that include 1) establishing community norms and articulating evidence-based DEI best practices, 2) providing professional development and inclusive leadership training to scholars across career stages, and 3) developing a resource hub for the cryosphere community.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.