RCN: GOLD-EN: Virtual Ice Community Engagement

尽管在过去十年中有了显著的增长，但冰冻圈群落和更广泛的地球科学一样，未能实现多样化。为了解决冰冻圈科学缺乏多样性的问题，这项努力提供了一种干预措施，旨在建立一个更具包容性的社区，拥有共同的价值观、规范和归属感，可以为冰冻圈社区内边缘化的学者和盟友提供支持和庇护。因为气候变化的影响，包括海平面上升，在社区层面上是非常明显的，最脆弱的群体要么没有被征求意见，要么被排除在关键决策之外，缺乏多样性限制了我们培养未来的教育工作者和研究人员的能力，这是应对气候变化的地方到全球挑战所必需的。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。该项目的总体目标是为一个包容性的冰冻圈社区提供结构性支持，该社区支持处于所有职业阶段的边缘学者，并更好地促进推进冰冻圈科学所需的跨学科和多学科研究。为此，将创建冰冻圈科学学者的虚拟网络，称为虚拟冰社区参与小组。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。这些小组将成为支持更具凝聚力的冰冻圈社区的关键节点，其目标包括：1)建立社区规范并阐明基于证据的DEI最佳实践；2)为跨职业阶段的学者提供专业发展和包容性领导力培训；3)为冰冻圈社区开发资源中心。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。

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.