Continuation and enhancement of the MPOWIR program

MPOWIR(辅导物理海洋学妇女以增加保留力)是一个社区主导的方案，旨在向物理海洋学方面的初级妇女提供指导，以提高她们在实地的保留率。MPOWIR方案于2004年启动，致力于实现社区在2005年秋季的规划研讨会上确定的方案目标：(1)提供从年轻女性的研究生生涯到其永久工作的头几年的连续性指导，(2)在自然海洋学社区内建立集体责任，指导该领域的初级妇女，(3)就各种问题提供各种指导资源和指导，(4)广撒网，避免排他性；(5)向所有自认为是海洋学家的人开放这个指导计划。这项提议是为了继续和丰富世界知识产权组织的活动。具体来说，将继续并扩大以下MPOWIR活动：1.Pattullo会议：该会议是MPOWIR工作的核心，旨在向初级妇女提供关于发展其研究计划的建议；与同行和资深科学家建立社区；并使高级科学家接触初级妇女的文化和关切。海洋地球物理研究所网站：该网站是海洋地球物理研究所活动信息的中心位置，旨在为所有物理海洋学家提供指导机会，而不分性别。数据库和调查：数据收集和调查用于建立留存统计数据，并定量评估和跟踪最不发达和最不发达国家项目活动的影响。辅导小组：这些小组在更小、更亲密的基础上提供同行和传统的指导。市政厅会议和社交：这些活动促进了物理海洋学家之间的联系，并向初级科学家提供职业发展信息。此外，MPOWIR计划的影响范围将通过增加三个新元素而扩大：越来越多地关注性别中立的指导；开发可在机构和大学进行的指导研讨会；以及侧重于将该计划输出到其他以学科为基础的社区。智力优势：这项拟议的活动，通过其对留住女性在物理海洋学领域的关注，将允许进一步利用资助机构和大学对女学生教育所做的投资。本质上，这项拟议的工作旨在阻止物理海洋领域以及其他地球科学学科的智力资本的流失。广泛的影响：这项拟议的工作有助于通过帮助留住物理海洋学和其他地球科学学科的女性，努力创造一支与学生人口和整个美国人口的多样性更接近的科学劳动力队伍。

MPOWIR (Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention) is a community-led program aimed at providing mentoring to junior women in physical oceanography in order to improve their retention in the field. Initiated in 2004, the MPOWIR program has been in full gear, working on the objectives of the program, as determined by the community in a planning workshop in the fall of 2005: (1) to provide continuity of mentoring from a young woman's graduate career, through her postdoctoral years to the first years of her permanent job, (2) to establish a collective responsibility within the physical oceanography community for the mentoring of junior women in the field, (3) to provide a variety of mentoring resources and mentors on a variety of issues, (4) to cast a wide net to avoid exclusiveness and (5) to open this mentoring program to all those who self-identify as a physical oceanographer. This proposal is for the continuation and enrichment of MPOWIR activities. Specifically, the following MPOWIR activities will be continued and expanded:1. The Pattullo Conference: The centerpiece of the MPOWIR effort, this conference aims to provide advice to junior women on developing their research programs; build community with peers and senior scientists; and expose senior scientists to the culture and concerns of junior women.2. MPOWIR website: This website is the central place for information on MPOWIR activities and is intended to provide mentoring opportunities to all physical oceanographers regardless of gender.3. Databases and surveys: Data collection and surveys are used to establish retention statistics and to quantitatively assess and track the impact of MPOWIR activities.4. Mentoring groups: These groups provide both peer and traditional mentoring on a smaller, more intimate basis.5. Town Hall meetings and socials: These events facilitate networking between physical oceanographers and provide career development information to junior scientists.Additionally, the reach of the MPOWIR program will be broadened by adding three new elements: an increasing focus on gender-neutral mentoring; development of a mentoring workshop that can be conducted at institutions and universities; and a focus on exporting this program to other discipline-based communities.Intellectual Merit: This proposed activity, through its focus on the retention of women in the field of physical oceanography, will allow further capitalization on the investment the funding agencies and universities have made on the education of women students. Essentially, this proposed work seeks to stem the loss of intellectual capital for the physical oceanographic field, as well as other Geosciences disciplines.Broader Impacts: This proposed work aids efforts to create a scientific workforce whose diversity more closely matches that of the student population and that of the U.S. population as a whole, by aiding the retention of women in the field of physical oceanography and other Geosciences disciplines.