ESA SEEDS: Exploring Science and Careers in Ecology

欧空局种子方案的目标是：探索生态学科学和职业奖是a）增加代表性不足的大学生对生态学领域和生态学职业的接触; B）促进在研究、政策、交流、推广和领导中使用多样化的生态学知识; c）培养学生对科学家的认同感和对科学界的归属感。该奖项将采用强有力的方法来指导，支持和指导生态科学领域的各种人才。为了实现这一目标，欧空局将组织和支持不同的本科生参加年度生态实地考察和领导会议，并前往欧空局生态会议，介绍他们的研究。为代表性不足的少数民族研究生设计的年度研讨会将解决研究生课程中存在差距的关键研究技能。这些差距包括数据编码、数据管理和分析、跨学科方法或转化科学，拟议的讲习班和活动旨在提供个人互动，以加深参与者作为科学家的认同感和效能感。通过密集的参与和扩展的网络，该奖项将招募和留住代表劳动力中所有种族和民族群体的生态科学家和专业人士。增加生态领域的种族和族裔多样性对于发展一支准备应对威胁生态系统的严重问题的工作队伍至关重要，同时让我们社会各级的不同社区和决策者参与。这个项目是很好的定位，以达到更多的不同的人和社区，通过参与者在校园活动的努力，关于科学在社会中的相关性和研究生的科学文献的贡献全国对话。该奖项将根据其变革理论的三个组成部分评估成功：明确的社会情感和文化响应辅导;了解职业信息如何基于职业发展理论流动：社会认知职业理论，社会资本理论，社会和资源理论;以及专业身份和社区由学科社会支持。该奖项将有助于这三个要素是如何交织在一起，他们对学生的专业发展的短期和长期影响的文献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The goal of ESA SEEDS: Exploring Science and Careers in Ecology award is to a) Increase exposure of underrepresented college students to the field of ecology and to careers in ecology; b) Promote the use of diverse ecological knowledge in research, policy, communication, outreach and leadership; and c) Develop students' sense of identification as scientists and belonging to the scientific community. This award will use a robust approach to the orientation, support and mentoring of diverse talent in the ecological sciences. To accomplish this, ESA will organize and support diverse undergraduate students to attend the annual ecological fieldtrips and leadership meetings and travel to the ESA ecological conference to present their research. An annual workshop designed for underrepresented minority graduate students will address critical research skills that have been gaps in graduate programs. These gaps include data coding, data management and analysis, interdisciplinary approaches or translational science.The proposed workshops and activities aim to provide the personal interactions that serve to deepen participants' sense of identity and efficacy as scientists. Through intensive engagement and extended networking, this award will recruit and retain ecological scientists and professionals representing all racial and ethnic groups in the workforce. Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the ecological field is critical to developing a workforce that is prepared to be responsive to the serious issues threatening ecological systems while involving diverse communities and decision-makers at all levels of our society. This project is well-positioned to reach many more diverse people and communities through the efforts of participants in campus activities, national conversations about the relevance of science in society and contributions by graduate students to the scientific literature. The award will evaluate success based on three components in its theory of change: explicit socioemotional and culturally responsive mentoring; understanding how career information flows based on career development theories: social cognitive career theory, social capital theory, social and resources theory; and professional identity and community supported by a disciplinary society. This award will contribute to the literature on how these three elements are interwoven and their short and long term impacts on students' professional development.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.