Conference: 9th Annual HBCU Climate Education Conference

深南环境正义中心将与德克萨斯南方大学布拉德环境与气候正义中心合作，与32(32)所历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)和15(15)个社区组织合作，于2023年10月11日至15日在路易斯安那州新奥尔良主办第九届HBCU气候教育年会。会议解决了对HBCU学生进行气候教育的重大需求，这些学生在气候科学学术方面的代表性很大程度上不足，但作为最容易受到气候影响的社区的成员，他们的代表性过高。该会议是一次独一无二的全国性聚会，将HBCU的学生和教职员工、社区组织、气候和环境科学家、绿色商业企业家和环境正义倡导者聚集在一起，探讨气候科学和对弱势和边缘化社区的不成比例的气候影响。现在已经是第九个年头了，会议继续呼吁HBCU的学生参与气候科学领域的教育、研究和知情决策。第九届HBCU年度气候教育会议旨在通过将HBCU的教职员工和学生、研究人员、气候科学家、环境正义和受有毒设施和恶劣天气事件影响的沿海社区居民聚集在一起，弥合气候影响的理论和经验现实之间的差距。会议的主要目的有四个：(1)向HBCU的学生介绍气候科学；(2)让学生与经历气候影响的墨西哥湾沿岸社区接触；(3)通过介绍研究结果，让学生参与该专业的实践；以及(4)与该领域的专业专家互动并向他们学习。会议努力在学术界和脆弱社区之间创造协同作用；促进应对与沿海地区和港口城市气候影响有关的长期或新出现的挑战，这些挑战可能因近海石油和天然气作业以及自然灾害而加剧；并促进领导力和沟通技能、科学素养能力和参与HBCU学生的能力的发展。该项目由NSF的地球科学多样性领导力机会计划(GOLD-EN)和历史上的黑人学院和本科生计划(HBCU-UP)共同资助，该计划提供奖项，以加强HBCU的STEM本科教育和研究。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。

The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice will partner with The Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University, in collaboration with thirty-two (32) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and fifteen (15) community-based organizations, to host the 9th Annual HBCU Climate Education Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 11-15, 2023. The Conference addresses the significant need for climate education for HBCU students who are largely under-represented in scholarship on climate science but over-represented as members of communities most vulnerable to climate impacts. The Conference is a one-of-a-kind national gathering that brings together HBCU students and faculty, community-based organizations, climate and environmental scientists, green business entrepreneurs, and environmental justice advocates in sessions that explore climate science and disproportionate climate impacts on vulnerable and marginalized communities. Now in its ninth year, the Conference continues to serve as a call to action for students at HBCUs to become engaged in education, research and informed decision-making in the field of climate science.The 9th Annual HBCU Climate Education Conference aims to bridge the gap between theory and the experiential realities of climate impacts by bringing together HBCU faculty and students, researchers, climate scientists, and environmental justice and coastal community residents impacted by toxic facilities and severe weather events. The major purpose of the Conference is four-fold: (1) introduce HBCU students to climate science; (2) engage students with Gulf Coast communities experiencing climate impacts; (3) engage students in the practice of the profession through the presentation of research findings; and (4) interact with and learn from professional experts in the field. The Conference strives to create synergy between academia and vulnerable communities; contribute to addressing chronic or emerging challenges related to climate impacts in coastal regions and port cities that can be exacerbated by offshore oil and gas operations and natural disasters; and foster the development of leadership and communication skills, competencies in science literacy, and capabilities of participating HBCU students.This project is co-funded by NSF's Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity Program (GOLD-EN) and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), which provides awards to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs.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.