Conferences: Training and Retaining Leaders in STEM Geospatial Sciences

这个项目的重点是妇女在地理空间科学（地理信息科学、遥感、空间分析和制图科学）方面的专业发展。该研究小组将发展和提供一系列多年的讲习班，随后制作的材料将供更广泛的社区使用。这些材料将包括视频、播客和建议、最佳实践和策略的书面汇编，以改善妇女在地理空间科学事业中的经验。由于这些领域在其他STEM学科中缺乏知名度，其从业者获得以学科为重点的专业发展的机会较少，包括领导技能的发展、职业保留策略、指导培训、工作与生活平衡的考虑，以及可以传递给未来几代进入地理空间科学学术生涯的女性的实用知识。通过培养一支强大的女性地理空间科学家队伍，该项目将进一步促进能力建设，解决地理空间思维、技术使用和计算方面的信心和能力问题，这些因素限制了这些学术领域的招聘和保留。该项目立即使地理空间STEM学科的当代女性受益，并创造条件，然后改善后代女性和男性的体验，共同促进文化变革。研讨会的形式对于促进地理空间社区中女性的广泛支持网络是最佳的，因为它允许参与者在问题上建立信心，在这个专业社区中体验共同的归属感，并参与一个指导框架，该框架模拟了已被证明是有效的STEM战略，即女性领导女性。该项目的标题为“培养和留住STEM -地理空间科学领域的领导者”（以下简称“TRELIS-GS”），是对构建人力资本框架或支撑学术和专业发展的一个隐喻。此外，“格子”隐喻表明，职业道路往往既不是单一的，也不是线性的，与传统的单轨“阶梯”不同，职业道路可能需要跳跃或飞跃。TRELIS-GS将通过缅因州大学和大学地理信息科学联盟（UCGIS）的合作伙伴关系进行，UCGIS是一个长期在高等教育中推广地理信息科学的非营利组织。这一伙伴关系将利用现有的UCGIS研究和基础设施，并有助于实现其长期承诺，即建设与更广泛的地理空间科学界共享信息和资源的能力。

This project focuses on professional development for women in the geospatial sciences (GIScience, remote sensing, spatial analysis, and mapping sciences). The research team will develop and offer a multi-year series of workshops, and the materials that are subsequently produced will be made available for use by the wider community. These materials will include videos, podcasts, and written compilations of recommendations, best practices, and strategies for improving experiences of women in geospatial science careers. Because these fields lack visibility among other STEM disciplines, its practitioners have fewer opportunities for disciplinary-focused professional development, including the development of leadership skills, career retention strategies, mentoring training, work-life balance considerations, and practical knowledge that can be passed onto future generations of women entering academic careers in geospatial sciences. By developing a strong and robust cadre of women geospatial scientists, the project will further contribute to capacity building by addressing confidence and competence in geo-spatial thinking, technology use, and computing, factors that are otherwise limiting to recruitment and retention in these academic fields. This project immediately benefits the current generation of women in geospatial STEM disciplines and creates conditions to then improve experiences for future generations of women and men, altogether contributing to a culture change. The workshop format is optimal for catalyzing a wide support network for women in the geospatial community as it allows the participants to develop confidence around the issues, experience a shared sense of belonging within this professional community, and engage within a mentoring framework that models what has been proven to be an effective STEM strategy, namely, women leading women.The title of this project, Training and Retaining Leaders in STEM - Geospatial Sciences (hereafter TRELIS-GS), is a metaphor for constructing a human capital trellis or scaffold of support for academic and professional development. Moreover, the trellis metaphor recognizes that career paths are often neither singular nor linear and may require jumps or leaps, unlike a traditional single-track "ladder". TRELIS-GS will be conducted through a partnership involving the University of Maine and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), a non-profit organization that has long promoted GIScience within higher education. This partnership will leverage existing UCGIS research and infrastructure and contribute to its long-term commitment to build capacity to share information and resources with the broader geospatial sciences community.