PGE/SEP: Supporting university women in geoscience: the mentoring ladder, field experience, and academic training

该项目将在波多黎各马亚圭斯大学(UPRM)开展，其目标是通过瞄准对未来职业决定有重大影响的三个关键转折点，提高完成本科学位并进入地球科学研究生课程的拉美裔女性人数：1)进入大学；2)大四和即将毕业；3)研究生的开始年。其目标是：鼓励这些过渡时期的妇女留在地球科学领域，并将她们培养成将在科学等级中晋升并成为榜样的领导人。长期目标是增加拉美裔妇女在国家一级的人数和在地球科学领域的能见度。在该提案的18个月任期内，受影响的拉美裔妇女总数约为80人。项目活动包括：在大学生涯初期建立同龄人支助网络，周末进行一次实地考察，进入女性地球科学专业；在大四本科生和研究生为期两周的实地考察中，通过团队合作建立合作和领导能力；通过导师阶梯培养自信和学术熟练程度，在研究生的指导下，大一新生由高年级女性指导，研究生再由教职员工支持；通过各级女学生举办并受到同事批评的研讨会，提高专业和社交技能；通过出席国家会议和为UPRM举办的著名女性地球科学家系列讲座，提高对机会的认识。项目活动相辅相成。统一的主题是专注于通过独立决策、指导和可以在女性职业生涯中使用的同行支持网络来提高自信和自力更生。

The goal of this project, to be conducted at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM), is to improve the number of Hispanic women who complete undergraduate degrees and enter graduate programs in the Earth Sciences by targeting three critical transition points which strongly affect future career decisions: 1) entry into college; 2) the senior year and impending graduation; and 3) the beginning years of graduate school. The objectives are: to encourage the women during these transition periods to remain in geosciences and to nurture them into becoming leaders who will ascend through the scientific hierarchy and serve as role models. The long-term goal is to increase the numbers and the visibility of Hispanic women at the national level in geosciences. The total number of Hispanic women impacted is approximately 80 during the 18-month tenure of the proposal. Project activities include: establishing a support network of peers early in the college career with a weekend field-trip for entering female geoscience majors; building cooperation and leadership through teamwork during a two-week field experience for senior undergraduate and graduate women; developing self-confidence and academic proficiency through a mentoring ladder in which freshman are guided by upper-class women who are counseled by graduate students, who, in turn, are supported by a faculty member; improving professional and social skills through seminars given by female students of all levels and critiqued by their colleagues; and increasing awareness of opportunities through attendance at national meetings and a lecture series that brings prominent female geoscientists to UPRM. Project activities are complementary. The unifying theme is the focus on improving self-confidence and self-reliance through independent decision-making, mentoring, and a support network of peers that can be used throughout a woman's career.