GP-IN: Chesapeake-Student Recruitment, Early Advisement, and Mentoring (C-StREAM) to Diversify Leadership in the Geosciences

通过IUSE：GEOPATH项目，切萨皮克研究联合会，Inc. (CRC)其合作伙伴旨在发展和加强领导途径，吸引和保留本科生学员和导师的多元化社区，以便将必要的观点多样性应用于理解复杂的人类影响的生态系统。该项目旨在加强和进一步发展，改进和评估CRC最近创建的独特计划，切萨皮克学生招聘，早期咨询和指导（C-StREAM）。在目前的形式下，C-StREAM通过多年的指导参与经验，培养和培训环境研究，恢复和保护方面的未来领导者。虽然最初的管道建设是成功的，但有些结构元件可以加强，以便能够达到容量。PI打算通过多年来单独定制整个学生参与体验的弧线，并将学生深入融入切萨皮克湾恢复工作的完整知识生态系统中来实现这一目标，这是学生的伙伴关系，各种机构设置的高级研究人员，管理人员，以及致力于发展和应用对切萨皮克湾区域生态系统的科学认识的政策制定者。（与大型生态系统恢复工作相关的多年经验），PI将特别注重建立参与者（研究员）的信心和能力，以便在他们感兴趣的领域继续学习，并最终为环境做出贡献-相关职业：a）提供暑期实习计划，使他们能够探索可行科学的两个方面（即，科学及其在管理和政策中的应用），通过在两个不同的联邦机构和多个（目前有7个）儿童权利委员会成员或伙伴机构; B）采用一种可以由学生通过该计划开发的领导能力的共同语言，这样，具体的经验可以编织在一起，在一个有凝聚力的弧线，并根据学生的个人需求量身定制; c）为任何一届的院士提供资助，以建立强烈的归属感（大约十几个学生）多种和实质性的机会，创造社区，提高沟通技巧，分享专业发展经验; d）创建一个实践社区，由受人尊敬和专业联系良好的暑期导师组成，他们不仅在学生直接感兴趣的知识领域具有很高的技能，而且还接受过文化意识，表达领导能力的培训，并响应学生的需求，使程序的经验可以利用其最大的潜力; e）激励每个研究员继续追求他们已经发展的兴趣（从夏季经验或其他）在学年期间，并与家庭机构顾问和导师合作，连接夏季体验，创造一个深思熟虑和个性化定制的参与弧;及f）联络研究员（通过在共同活动期间的接触和导师的鼓励）与一名以上的专业导师，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得支持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。

Through the IUSE:GEOPAths project, the Chesapeake Research Consortium, Inc. (CRC) and its partners aim to evolve and strengthen a leadership pathway that attracts and retains a diverse community of both undergraduate mentees and mentors so that the necessary diversity of perspectives is applied to the understanding of complex human-impacted ecosystems. The project is intended to strengthen and further develop, improve, and evaluate the CRC’s recently created and unique program, Chesapeake-Student Recruitment, Early Advisement, and Mentoring (C-StREAM). In its current form, C-StREAM develops and trains a diverse population of future leaders in environmental research, restoration, and protection by engaging them over multiple years in mentored engagement experiences. While this initial pipeline construction has been successful, there are structural elements that can be strengthened so that it can be filled to capacity. The PIs intend to do this by individually tailoring the arc of the entire student engagement experience, over multiple years, and by deeply integrating the students within the full intellectual ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort, which is a partnership of students, senior researchers across a variety of institutional settings, managers, and policy-makers working to develop and apply scientific understanding of the Chesapeake Bay regional ecosystem.In order to strengthen the existing pathway model (a multi-year experience associated with a large ecosystem restoration effort), the PIs specifically will focus on building the confidence and competency of participants (Fellows) toward continued study in their field of interest and an eventual career of contribution to environment-related careers by: a) providing access to a summer internship program that allows them to explore both sides of actionable science (i.e., science and its application in management and policy) by offering opportunities from multiple on-going, impactful internship programs at two different federal agencies and multiple (currently seven) CRC member or partnering institutions; b) employing a common language of leadership competencies that can be developed by the student through the program, so that specific experiences can be woven together in a cohesive arc and tailored to the individual needs of the student; c) building a strong sense of belonging by providing the Fellows of any given annual cohort (of roughly a dozen students) multiple and substantive opportunities to create community, enhance communication skills, and have shared professional development experiences; d) creating a community of practice composed of well-respected and professionally well-connected summer mentors who are not only highly skilled in areas of direct intellectual interest to the student, but also trained to be culturally aware, articulate in leadership competencies, and responsive to the student’s needs so that the program experience can be leveraged to its fullest potential; e) incentivizing each Fellow to continue to pursue interests that they’ve developed (from the summer experience or otherwise) during the academic year and in collaboration with home institution advisors and mentors, to bridge the summer experiences to create a thoughtful and individually-tailored arc of engagement; and f) connecting Fellows (via access during common activities and encouragement by mentors) with more than one professional mentor, including individuals both within and outside their home institution.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.