DCL: NSF INCLUDES: Leveraging Field-Campaign Networks for Collaborative Change

该项目将使大型网络参与，支持即将到来的两个由国家科学基金会支持的主要实地运动，以了解和减轻外地环境中的骚扰。项目组将制定、实施、测试和宣传改善现场气候和安全的有效做法。性骚扰在许多工作场所根深蒂固，包括学术界和科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域，这个问题最近得到了关注。虽然性骚扰在工作场所得到了广泛的研究，包括在学术界，但很少有研究将这个问题集中在现场环境中。这项工作是扩大地球科学领域边缘群体参与实地学术的重要一步。该项目将利用支持国家科学基金会即将支持的两个主要实地活动的大型网络(西部野火云化学、气溶胶吸收和氮气实验：WE-Can；利用适应性地面观测对电化、闪电和中/微尺度过程的遥感：Relampago)，以更好地理解和减少实地以及随后的专业会议或科学小组会议期间基于性别的负面骚扰。该项目旨在通过以下目标大幅减少地球科学中的性骚扰：(1)培训即将到来的两个主要实地运动网络的参与者，以认识、报告和应对目前和未来的性骚扰情况；(2)建立两个新的多机构和国际积极主动的科学家网络，包括男性，他们致力于打击性别不平等；(3)调查地球科学实地研究人员对性骚扰的看法、态度、行为和经验；(4)为未来的主要实地运动网络内促进围绕性骚扰的合作变化创建实用指南。该项目将在外地活动的整个生命周期内，从活动前规划到活动后会议，让外地活动网络参与进来。基于工作场所和学术界关于性骚扰的先前研究，这项研究将集中在四个主要领域的变化：(1)性骚扰行为(参与者所犯或经历的)；(2)性骚扰知识；(3)性骚扰的反应和影响；(4)性骚扰的心理前因。该提案的一个主要优点是，它将允许审查跨文化影响，因为这些活动将在国内和国际实地活动背景下进行测试。这一奖项反映了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。

The project will engage the large networks supporting two upcoming major NSF-supported field campaigns to understand and mitigate harassment in field settings. The project team will develop, implement, test, and propagate effective practices for improving field site climate and safety. Sexual harassment is deeply entrenched in many workplaces including academia and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and this issue has gained attention recently. While sexual harassment has been studied extensively in workplaces, including in academia, very little research has focused on this problem in field settings. This work is an essential step toward broadening participation of marginalized groups in the earth sciences in field-based scholarship. This project will leverage the large networks supporting two upcoming major NSF-supported field campaigns (Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption and Nitrogen: WE-CAN; Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations: RELAMPAGO) to better understand and mitigate negative gender-based harassment in the field and during subsequent professional conferences or science-team meetings. The project aims to dramatically reduce sexual harassment in the earth sciences via these objectives: (1)Train participants in two major upcoming field campaign networks to recognize, report, and confront present and future situations of sexual harassment; (2) Build two new multi-institutional and international networks of proactive scientists, including men, who are invested in combating gender inequality; (3)Investigate the perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, and experiences of earth science field researchers regarding sexual harassment; (4) Create a practical guide for future PIs to facilitate collaborative change around sexual harassment within major field campaign networks. The project will engage the field campaign networks throughout the entire lifecycle of the field campaign, from pre-campaign planning to post-campaign conferences. Based on prior research about sexual harassment in the workplace and academia, the study will focus on change in four major areas: (1) sexual harassment behavior (either perpetrated or experienced by participants); (2) sexual harassment knowledge; (3) sexual harassment responses and impacts; and (4) psychological antecedents for sexual harassment. A major strength of the proposal is that it will allow the examination of cross-cultural effects, as the activities will be tested in the context of both domestic and international field campaign settings.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.