TRACK 1 - Building an Academic Bridge for Success: Increasing Undergraduate Diversity in the Geosciences at UC Davis

轨道1：通向成功的学术桥梁：加州大学戴维斯分校增加本科生地球科学多样性这个项目积极促进加州大学戴维斯分校地球科学的多样性。它由三个主要部分组成，这三个部分形成了一个综合战略，以招募、培训和指导代表人数不足的学生。其目标是让代表性不足的学生进入研究生院并从事地球科学职业。该项目的第一部分针对的是未被充分代表的新生和社区大学转校生。它与加州大学戴维斯分校现有的旨在提高代表性不足学生的成功程度的项目相协调，它招募少数族裔参加小规模的研讨会，这些研讨会提供特定主题的重点地球科学教育，向学生介绍研究，并提供个性化的指导。第二个部分包括密集的研究体验，它使初学本科生沉浸在科学过程中，并向学生个人传达地球科学的相关性。该研究项目包括四到七名学生和一名导师在流经加州大学戴维斯分校植物园的Putah Creek的水质和沉积物积极监测项目中进行互动。Putah Creek体验旨在向学生传授进行个人研究项目所需的技能，为他们提供机会从事更符合他们兴趣的研究项目，并定义他们自己的科学问题，这些问题可以构成高级论文的基础。该项目的第三部分是一个三管齐下的、以课程为基础的指导和咨询倡议，包括两个专业技能发展课程(“建立您的专业工具箱”和“销售科学”)，其目的是增加未被充分代表的学生的留住和专业发展。

Track 1: An Academic Bridge for Success: Increasing Undergraduate Diversity in the Geosciences at UC DavisThis project actively boosts diversity in the Geosciences at UC Davis. It consists of three major components that form an integrated strategy to recruit, train, and mentor underrepresented students. The goal is to get underrepresented students to enter graduate school and a geoscience career. The first component of the project targets underrepresented incoming freshman and community college transfer students. It is coordinated with existing UC Davis programs designed to enhance the success of underrepresented students, and it recruits minorities into small-enrollment seminars that provide focused geoscience education on a specific topic, introduces students to research, and provides personalized mentoring. The second component consists of an intensive research experience, which immerses beginning undergraduates in the scientific process and conveys the relevance of the geosciences to the individual student. The research program involves interaction of four to seven students and a mentor in an active monitoring program of water quality and sedimentation in Putah Creek, which flows through the UC Davis Arboretum. The Putah Creek experience is designed to teach students the skills necessary to perform individual research projects, provide them with opportunities to pursue research projects more specific to their interests, and define their own scientific questions that can form the basis of a senior thesis. The third component of the project is a three-pronged, course-based mentoring and advising initiative consisting of two professional skill development courses ('Building Your Professional Toolbox', and 'Selling Science'), the aim of which is to increase retention and professional development of underrepresented students.