GP-EXTRA: Expanding an Innovative Pathway to Replenish the Geoscience Workforce with Underrepresented Minority Non-Geoscience STEM Majors

纽约市理工学院(City Tech)的这一项目旨在扩大并维持一项针对非地球科学少数族裔STEM学生的全年地球科学劳动力准备和地球科学职业生涯指导计划，该计划从他们初中或大学四年级的关键时刻开始。该计划的总体目标是通过利用这一非传统的学生池，创建一条通往日益减少的地球科学劳动力的可持续途径。每年将招募11名学生参加结构化的地球科学劳动力模型计划，该计划包括地球科学-接触、准备、学徒和经验。该计划将把城市理工学院、梅德加·埃弗斯学院以及联邦、地方和私人地球科学行业合作伙伴聚集在一起，这些合作伙伴包括：纽约市环境保护部、纽约市交通部、纽约市应急管理部门、美国环境保护局、布鲁克海文国家实验室、卡里研究所，以及合作伙伴工程和科学。City Tech及其合作伙伴将合作实现以下目标：1)为非地球科学STEM专业的学生在地球科学领域寻求职业发展开辟道路；2)通过使用地球科学仪器、模型和数据集提供实际操作的地球科学培训；以及3)让学生参与变革性的地球科学实习计划。拟议的活动将为期一年的地球科学劳动力经验与多层次指导、行业支持系统和强大的地球科学网络社区相结合，为参与者的劳动力发展提供全面和有吸引力的刺激。该项目的科学、教育和地球科学劳动力价值来自两个主要来源：1)专注于将STEM知识的学习转化为现实世界中的地球科学问题、操作和劳动力发展，以及2)联邦、地方和私人机构的地球科学从业人员的专业知识，他们都是训练有素的地球科学专业人员。纽约城市技术学院(城市理工学院)的这个项目旨在扩大和维持为非地球科学少数族裔STEM学生提供的全年地球科学劳动力准备和地球科学职业指导计划，该计划从他们初中或大学四年级的关键时刻开始。该计划的总体目标是通过利用这一非传统的学生池，创建一条通往日益减少的地球科学劳动力的可持续途径。每年将招募11名学生参加结构化的地球科学劳动力模型计划，该计划包括地球科学-接触、准备、学徒和经验。通过这一倡议的期望是，许多原本不会从事地球科学职业生涯的少数族裔(URM)STEM学生现在可以选择从事地球科学职业，这不仅可以带来有利可图的工作，还可以帮助缓解国家严重的地球科学劳动力困境。然后将建立一个多部门的地球科学劳动力发展基础设施。为了解决该项目的主要研究问题，该计划设计了以下目标和目的：目标1：拓宽非地球科学少数民族STEM专业的地球科学劳动力途径；目标2：创建一个多部门的地球科学劳动力发展基础设施。该计划的每个组成部分：暴露、准备、学徒和经验将单独进行评估。此外，调查、焦点小组以及事后地球科学知识和实验室测试将用于对该计划的形成性和终结性评估。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) seeks to expand and to sustain a year-round geoscience workforce preparation and geoscience career mentoring program for non-geoscience minority STEM students beginning at the critical juncture of their junior or senior year. The overall goal of the program is to create a sustainable pathway to the dwindling geoscience workforce by tapping into this non-traditional pool of students. Eleven students will be recruited each year to participate in the structured geoscience workforce model program that consists of geoscience - Exposure, Preparation, Apprenticeship, and Experience. The initiative will bring together City Tech, Medgar Evers College and federal, local, and private geoscience industry partners that include: NYC Department of Environmental Protection, NYC Department of Transportation, NYC Emergency Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cary Institute, and Partner Engineering and Science. City Tech and its partners will collaborate to achieve the following objectives: 1) create pathways for non-geoscience STEM majors to pursue careers in the geosciences; 2) provide hands-on geoscience training via the use of geoscience instrumentation, models, and data sets; and 3) engage students in transformative geoscience internship programs. The proposed activities combine year-long geoscience workforce experiences with multi-tiered mentoring, industry support systems, and a robust geoscience networking community to produce holistic and engaging stimuli for the workforce development of the participants. The scientific, educational, and geoscience workforce value of this project derives from two main sources: 1) a focus on the transfer of learning from STEM knowledge to real-world geoscience problems, operations, and workforce development, and 2) the expertise of geoscience practitioners at federal, local, and private facilities, all of whom are highly trained geoscience professionals.This project at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) seeks to expand and to sustain a year-round geoscience workforce preparation and geoscience career mentoring program for non-geoscience minority STEM students beginning at the critical juncture of their junior or senior year. The overall goal of the program is to create a sustainable pathway to the dwindling geoscience workforce by tapping into this non-traditional pool of students. Eleven students will be recruited each year to participate in the structured geoscience workforce model program that consists of geoscience - Exposure, Preparation, Apprenticeship, and Experience. The expectation through this initiative will be that many underrepresented minority (URM) STEM students who would otherwise not pursue a geoscience career may now choose to follow a geoscience career that could not only lead to lucrative jobs, but could also help to ameliorate the nation's grave geoscience workforce dilemma. A multi-sector geoscience workforce development infrastructure will then be developed. To address the project's main research enquiries, the program was designed with the following goals and objectives: Goal 1: To broaden the geoscience workforce pathway for non-geoscience minority STEM majors; Goal 2: To create a multi-sector geoscience workforce development infrastructure. Each component of the program: Exposure, Preparation, Apprenticeship, and Experience will be evaluated individually. Additionally, surveys, focus groups, and pre-post geoscience knowledge and laboratory tests will be used for both formative and summative assessments of the program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.