Planning Grant: Building Women Leadership at field stations and marine laboratories

野外台站和海洋实验室（FSML）提供了一个设施网络，可以对无数生物过程进行观测和实验研究，以监测气候变化的影响。实地机构代表了国家科学基础设施中的独特资源，并为将科学发现转化为教育，公众参与，资源管理和政策提供了宝贵的机会。FSML面临着独特的挑战，包括偏远的位置，有限的资源，群体生活条件和有限的通信。这些挑战在多大程度上构成了确保参与实地科学的多样性和公平性的障碍，人们对此知之甚少。虽然妇女参与生物科学的人数普遍增加，但在领导职位、工资和职业晋升方面的平等仍然落后于预期。由于社区所有成员不能包容和平等地参与科学，国家实地站网络的价值受到损害。 该项目的长期愿景是增加外地机构的妇女领导人数，并创造一种包容性文化，使妇女感到已做好准备，得到支持，并有能力发挥领导作用。 利用这笔赠款，为规划活动提供了资金，以收集关于妇女领导人需求的数据，以便充分确定现状，设计一项有效的战略，与该领域的专家以及在公平和包容性问题上有经验的人一起进行领导力培训，并确定培训讲习班的交付成果。该项目将通过一项社区调查和一次有各种参与者参加的促进性规划会议，评估目前在财务、社会和职业介绍所领导层中的性别平等状况，并确定需要和机会的领域。这些将被用来形成一套设计要求的试点领导培训计划。 该项目将与生物野外站组织和国家海洋实验室协会等相关协会密切合作。最后一项成果将是一项战略计划，用于确定障碍和潜在的解决方案，以提高和支持妇女在野外台站和海洋实验室的领导地位。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Field stations and marine labs (FSMLs) provide a network of facilities that enable observations and experimental research on a myriad of biological processes to monitor the effects of a shifting climate. Field-based institutions represent a unique resource in the nation's scientific infrastructure and present invaluable opportunities for the translation of scientific discovery into education, public engagement, resource management, and policy. FSMLs face unique challenges, including their remote locations, limited resources, group living conditions, and constrained communications. The extent to which these challenges pose barriers to ensuring diversity and equity in participation in field science is poorly understood. While participation of women in the biological sciences has been generally increasing, equity in leadership positions, salaries, and career advancement continues to lag behind expectations. The value of the nation's network of field stations is compromised in the absence of inclusive and equal participation in science by all members of the community. The long-term vision for this project is to increase the number of women leaders at field-based institutions and create an inclusive culture in which women feel prepared, supported and empowered to lead. With this grant, funds are provided for planning activities to gather data about the needs of women leaders in order to fully define the status quo, to design an effective strategy for leadership training with experts in the field and who have experience with issues of equity and inclusivity, and to identify training workshop deliverables. Through a community survey and a facilitated planning meeting with a diversity of participants, this project will assess the current state of gender equity in leadership at FSMLs and identify areas of need and opportunities. These will be used to form a set of design requirements for a pilot leadership training program. The project will work closely with the relevant societies such as the Organization of Biological Field Stations and the National Association of Marine Laboratories. A final deliverable will be a strategic plan for identifying barriers and potential solutions to increase and support women leadership at field stations and marine laboratories.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.