GOLD-EN Broadening Participation in Coastal and Estuarine Sciences: A Workshop of the 26th Biennial Conference of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation

CERF的Rising TIDES（走向包容、多样和丰富的社会）研讨会将支持NSF更广泛的跨领域努力，以增加代表性不足的少数群体（URM）个人对STEM的参与。对这一讲习班的支持加强了应急基金扩大参与的承诺和能力，包括参与国家基金包容性联盟和其他城市应急机制活动。通过这次研讨会，CERF将利用其他NSF资助的项目，特别是INCLUDES SEAS Islands Alliance和IUSE：GEOPAThs C-StREAM项目。拟议的上午研讨会将致力于建立和加强代表性不足的学生学者（URSS）和专业和近同行导师之间的关系，激励URSS参与者将自己视为科学专业人员和CERF以及沿海和河口科学和管理社区的一部分，并为URSS提供有用的工具，以实现其职业目标。下午的研讨会将培训与会者如何处理学术和专业环境中的隐性偏见;研讨会将向应急基金会议的所有与会者开放（预计有50名研讨会与会者）。下午的研讨会开发多样性，公平性和包容性（DEI）冠军谁可以返回家园机构与其他DEI技能。在研讨会上开始的努力将通过涉及学生和专业参与者的各种结构化活动在整个会议期间扩大。广泛参与科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）被广泛认为是科学和工程事业的关键。URM个人与白人和亚洲人之间的美国STEM教育程度仍然存在很大差距，沿海和河口科学在URM代表性方面也面临着类似的差距。认识到这一差距，并从根本上改变应急基金社区支持和满足所有成员个人需求的方式，应急基金寻求在其2021年两年期会议上支持多样性和包容性努力。具体而言，这些努力包括：（1）加强应急救援系统的专业发展，包括群体建设、辅导和参加以应急救援系统为重点的讲习班、科学会议以及其他会议和会后活动;（2）通过向所有与会者开放的讲习班和整个会议期间的额外学习机会，建设应急基金实现应急救援行动目标的能力;以及（3）通过在整个会议期间注入可持续发展倡议，确保中央应急基金社区的广泛参与。对研讨会和更广泛的会议DEI工作的评估将改善未来的Rising TIDES行动，并为类似的DEI会议规划提供可转移的经验教训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

CERF's Rising TIDES (Toward an Inclusive, Diverse, and Enriched Society) workshop will support broader, cross-cutting efforts by the NSF to increase participation in STEM by under-represented minority (URM) individuals. Support of this workshop strengthens CERF’s commitment to and capacity in broadening participation, including participation in an NSF INCLUDES Alliance and additional URM activities. Through this workshop, CERF will leverage other NSF-funded programs, specifically the INCLUDES SEAS Islands Alliance and IUSE:GEOPAths C-StREAM projects. The proposed morning workshop session will be dedicated to building and strengthening relationships between underrepresented student scholars (URSS) and professional and near-peer mentors, inspiring URSS participants to see themselves as science professionals and part of the CERF and coastal and estuarine science and management community, and providing URSS with tools useful to achieve their career goals. The afternoon workshop session will train participants on addressing implicit bias in their academic and professional settings; the session will be open to all CERF conference attendees (with 50 anticipated workshop attendees). The afternoon workshop develops diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) champions who can return to home institutions with additional DEI skills. Efforts begun at the workshops will be scaled up throughout the conference through various structured activities involving student and professional participants.Broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is widely recognized as critical to the science and engineering enterprise. There is still a wide gap in U.S. STEM educational attainment between URM individuals and whites and Asians, and coastal and estuarine science faces similar gaps in URM representation. In recognition of this gap and to incorporate fundamental change in the way the CERF community supports and addresses the individual needs of all members, CERF seeks to support diversity and inclusion efforts at its 2021 Biennial Conference. Specifically, these efforts include: (1) enhance URSS professional development, including cohort building, mentoring, and participation in a URSS-focused workshop, scientific sessions, and other conference and post-conference activities; (2) build the capacity of CERF to achieve DEI objectives through a workshop open to all attendees, and through additional learning opportunities throughout the conference; and (3) ensure broad engagement of the CERF community by infusing DEI throughout the conference. Evaluation of the workshop and broader conference DEI efforts will improve future Rising TIDES actions and provide transferrable lessons for similar DEI conference programming.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.