GP-IMPACT: Collaborative Research: Geoscientist Development (GEODE): Recruiting and Engaging the future Geoscience workforce

地球科学家发展（GEODE）计划：招募和参与未来地球科学劳动力是一个旨在吸引加州河滨县高中和社区大学学生进入地球科学专业和职业的计划。该项目代表了加州大学河滨分校（UCR）、河滨社区学院（RCC）和河滨联合学区（RUSD）之间的合作，并为该地区其他社区学院和公立学区提供了参与机会。美国地球科学研究所预测，除非招聘率得到改善，否则到2020年地球科学工作人员将面临约13.5万人的潜在缺口。GEODE项目通过将招聘重点放在历史上在地球科学领域代表性不足的社区，从而解决了这一潜在的不足，从而代表了尚未开发的智力资本池。河滨县位于南加州洛杉矶县的东部，人口密集（230万），高度多样化（47.4%是西班牙裔），拥有广泛的地球科学职业机会，因此是招聘新地球科学家的理想地区。GEODE项目有两个目标：(1)创建一系列旨在增加地球科学中代表性不足的少数民族学生数量的项目，并成功地将他们引入地球科学工作队伍；(2)测试这些项目的有效性，以确定哪些项目应该用于增加其他地区和其他机构中代表性不足的少数民族的新地球科学家的招聘和保留。GEODE计划通过提高对地球科学职业机会的认识，提高学生在三个关键教育阶段的过渡，增加了对高度多样化和有学术准备的劳动力的招聘和保留：(1)高中到大学（2年和4年），(2)社区学院到大学，(3)大学到劳动力。在每一个关键时刻，GEODE项目都在为学生创造机会，通过大量的实地考察和研究经验，让他们接触到自然世界的奇观。该计划还为学生提供导师，学术支持和专业发展计划，以确保保留和成功。通过利用UCR现有的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学生支持项目的成功，GEODE项目正在其合作机构中创建一个地球科学网络。

The Geoscientist Development (GEODE) Program: Recruiting and Engaging the Future Geoscience Workforce is a program designed to draw high school and community college students in Riverside County, CA into geoscience majors and careers. This program represents a collaboration between the University of California, Riverside (UCR), Riverside Community College (RCC), and the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD), with engagement opportunities for additional community colleges and public school districts in the region. The American Geosciences Institute predicts that the geoscience workforce faces a potential shortfall of ~135,000 by the year 2020 unless recruitment rates are improved. The GEODE Program addresses this potential shortfall by focusing recruitment on communities that are historically underrepresented in the geosciences and thus represent an untapped pool of intellectual capital. Riverside County, located east of Los Angeles County in Southern California, is densely populated (2.3 million), highly diverse (47.4% Hispanic), and home to a wide range of geoscience career opportunities, and is therefore an ideal region in which to recruit new geoscientists.The GEODE Program has two goals: (1) To create a range of programs designed to increase the number of underrepresented minority students in the geosciences and successfully usher them into the geoscience workforce, and (2) To test the efficacy of these programs in order to determine which programs should be used to increase recruitment and retention of new geoscientists from underrepresented minorities in other regions and by other institutions. The GEODE Program is increasing the recruitment and retention of a highly diverse and academically prepared workforce by increasing awareness of career opportunities in the geosciences and improving students' transitions through three critical educational junctures: (1) High School to College (2-Year and 4-Year), (2) Community College to University, and (3) University to Workforce. At each critical juncture, the GEODE Program is creating opportunities for students to be exposed to the wonders of the natural world through a multitude of field and research experiences. The program also provides students with mentors, academic support and professional development programs to ensure retention and success. By leveraging the success of existing support programs at UCR for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students from underrepresented backgrounds, the GEODE Program is creating a geoscience network throughout its collaborating institutions.