SOCIETY OF WETLAND SCIENTISTS DIVERSITY PROGRAM: UNDERGRADUATE MENTORING AT THE ANNUAL MEETING

湿地科学家协会（SWS）的多样性指导计划的本科生是在其第十二个年头。这个新的奖项将支持在未来五年内，每年从代表性不足的群体的七名本科生参与该计划。它还将继续美国生态学会（ESA SEEDS）更大的少数民族本科生指导计划之间的富有成效和协同作用的合作;来自SWS的两名参与者被邀请参加年度ESA SEEDS领导会议，并将他们的经验带回SWS年会。SWS认识到需要接触代表性不足的群体，为个人成长和发展提供智力机会。参加科学会议往往可以提供智力火花，沿着的机会，使接触未来，鼓励本科生继续他们的专业教育超越学士学位水平。该计划的一个主要目标是为这些学生打开大门。由于融合了更多不同的观点，以生态为导向的专业人员的多样化预计将促进更好的科学和科学应用。参与者调查结果的摘要将发表在SWS的公告，湿地科学与实践。从代表性不足的群体中选出一组本科生参加年度科学会议，为每个学生提供了一个角度和接触湿地科学的广度和深度，以及在单一学术机构无法获得的个人联系。由于SWS跨越学术，政府和私人咨询部门，学生能够定制他们的日常活动，以他们在湿地科学的个人利益。各种战略（社会活动、实地考察、指导、职业发展讲习班、通过欧空局种子进行领导能力培训）将为获奖者提供指导和增强自信，从而使生态科学更加多样化。通过在SWS和ESA年会上将本科生与研究生或教师导师配对，并通过提供面向职业发展的研讨会和专题讨论会，SWS正在促进积极参与和讨论，这是推进科学和促进本科生智力发展的关键组成部分。

The Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) Diversity Mentoring Program for Undergraduates is in its twelfth year. This new award will support the participation in the program of seven undergraduate students from underrepresented groups each year for the next five years. It will also continue a productive and synergistic collaboration between the much larger minority undergraduate mentoring program of the Ecological Society of America (ESA SEEDS); two participants from SWS are invited to attend the annual ESA SEEDS leadership meeting and bring their experiences back to the SWS annual meeting. SWS recognizes the need to reach out to underrepresented groups to provide intellectual opportunities for personal growth and development. Attendance at scientific meetings can often provide the intellectual spark, along with the opportunities to make contacts for the future, that encourage undergraduate students to continue their professional education beyond the Bachelors level. A major goal of the program is to open doors for these students. Diversification of ecologically oriented professionals is expected to promote better science and science applications as a result of the melding of more diverse perspectives. A summary of participant survey results will be published in the SWS bulletin, Wetland Science and Practice.Attendance of a select group of undergraduate students from underrepresented groups at an annual scientific meeting provides each student with a perspective on and exposure to the breadth and depth of wetland science and personal contacts that cannot be obtained at a single academic home institution. Because SWS spans academic, government, and private consulting sectors, students are able to tailor their daily activities to their personal interests in wetland science. A variety of strategies (social events, field trips, mentoring, career development workshops, leadership training through ESA SEEDS) will provide guidance and boost self-assurance for award recipients that will lead to greater ethnic and racial diversification of the ecological sciences. By pairing undergraduate students with graduate student or faculty mentors at both the SWS and ESA annual meetings and by providing workshops and symposia oriented toward career development, SWS is fostering active participation and discussion, key components of advancing science and promoting the intellectual development of undergraduate students.