Collaborative Research: Continuation and Enhancement of MPOWIR

概述：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活动始于2004年，并于2007年正式启动。根据社区在2005年规划研讨会上确定的目标，该计划的目标是：(1)从年轻女性的研究生生涯到其长期工作的头几年提供连续的指导，(2)在自然海洋学社区内建立集体责任，指导该领域的初级女性，(3)在各种问题上提供各种指导资源和指导，(4)撒大网，以避免排他性，以及(5)向所有自认为是物理海洋学家的人开放这一指导计划。知识价值：MPOWIR方案侧重于留住物理海洋学领域的妇女，将使资助机构和大学在女学生教育方面的投资得到进一步的资本化。从本质上讲，该项目旨在通过下列活动阻止物理海洋领域以及其他地球科学学科智力资本的流失：1.帕图洛会议：这一半年期会议汇集了大约25名初级女性物理海洋学家，以及12名高级物理海洋学家，其中有男性和女性，会议为期两天，重点是以学科为基础的指导。2.指导小组：为保密目的，由大约6名初级女性和2名高级女性物理海洋学家组成的小组每月举行电话会议，个性化指导。3.MPOWIR网站：该网站是指导和物理海洋学职业的资源库。4.数据库和调查：定期进行调查，以评估MPOWIR活动的有效性，确定社区指导需求，并评价保留方面的进展。5.市政厅会议和社会活动：海洋科学会议上的活动促进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。网站和市政厅会议对所有人开放，将更加重视通过网站提供材料，以确保不分性别。将通过与地球科学妇女网络的链接和一份新的季度通讯，努力将MPOWIR模型输出到其他学科和机构。社交媒体将被用来宣传MPOWIR的活动、公告和事件。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，努力创建一支多样性更接近学生人口和整个美国人口的科学劳动力队伍。

Overview: 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, MPOWIR activities started in earnest in 2007. The objectives of the program, as determined by the community in the 2005 planning workshop are: (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. Intellectual Merit: The MPOWIR program, 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 project seeks to stem the loss of intellectual capital for the physical oceanographic field, as well as other geoscience disciplines through the following activities:1.Pattullo conference: This biannual conference brings together about 25 junior women physical oceanographers, together with 12 senior physical oceanographers, both male and female, for a 2.5 day meeting focused on discipline-based mentoring.2.Mentoring groups: Groups of about 6 junior women and 2 senior women physical oceanographers meet for a monthly teleconference, for the purpose of confidential, personalized mentoring.3.MPOWIR website: The website serves as a repository of resources for mentoring and physical oceanography careers.4.Databases and surveys: Regular surveys are conducted to assess the effectiveness of MPOWIR activities, determine community mentoring needs, and evaluate progress in retention.5.Town Hall meetings and socials: Events at the Ocean Sciences meeting facilitate networking between physical oceanographers and provide career development information to junior scientists. The website and town hall meetings are open to all, and greater emphasis will be placed on making material available via the website, to ensure a gender-neutral benefit. Efforts to export the MPOWIR model to other disciplines and institutions will be undertaken via links with the Earth Science Women's Network, and through a new quarterly newsletter. Social media will be used to publicize MPOWIR activities, announcement and events.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 geoscience disciplines.