Collaborative Research: Continuation and Enhancement of MPOWIR

概述：MPOWIR（指导物理海洋学妇女以提高保留率）是一个社区主导的项目，旨在为初级妇女提供物理海洋学指导，以提高她们在该领域的保留率。MPOWIR活动于2004年启动，2007年正式开始。社区在2005年规划研讨会上确定了该计划的目标：(1)为年轻女性的研究生生涯提供连续性的指导，从她的博士后生涯到她的正式工作的第一年；(2)在物理海洋学社区内建立一个集体责任，为该领域的初级女性提供指导；(3)为各种问题提供各种指导资源和导师。(4)广泛撒网，避免排他性；(5)向所有自认为是物理海洋学家的人开放这个指导计划。智力优势：MPOWIR方案的重点是将妇女留在物理海洋学领域，这将使资助机构和大学对女学生教育的投资进一步资本化。从本质上讲，该项目旨在通过以下活动阻止物理海洋学领域以及其他地球科学学科的智力资本流失：Pattullo会议：这个一年两次的会议汇集了大约25名初级女性物理海洋学家，以及12名高级物理海洋学家，包括男性和女性，为期2.5天的会议重点是基于学科的指导。指导小组：由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一次电话会议，目的是保密，个性化指导。MPOWIR网站：该网站是指导和物理海洋学职业的资源库。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，并评估保留方面的进展。市政厅会议和社交活动：海洋科学会议的活动促进了物理海洋学家之间的联系，并为初级科学家提供了职业发展信息。网站和市政厅会议对所有人开放，并将更加强调通过网站提供材料，以确保性别中立。将通过与地球科学妇女网络的联系，并通过一份新的季度通讯，努力向其他学科和机构输出MPOWIR模式。社交媒体将用于宣传MPOWIR的活动，公告和事件。更广泛的影响：这项提议的工作有助于努力创造一支科学劳动力队伍，其多样性更接近于学生群体和美国整体人口的多样性，通过帮助保留物理海洋学和其他地球科学学科领域的女性。

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.