DCL: GOLD-EN EAGER: CUltivating socially Responsible ATmospheric scientists through Education, Leadership, and Action (CURATE)

科学、技术、工程和数学领域的一个值得注意的挑战是，多样性、公平性和包容性往往孤立于科学进程的许多方面和大气科学科学界的某些部分。需要在更高的参与层次上采取新的方法和切入点，以培养地球科学领域“一个由研究人员、学者和从业人员组成的多样化社区”。为此，PI将开发一种新的混合（面对面和在线组件）大气科学课程，旨在打破研究生和博士后研究人员进入多样性，公平和包容性参与的传统障碍。该课程将提供结构和资源，帮助参与者成为新的“多样性领导者”，更好地准备解决地球科学所面临的独特的参与，代表和包容性挑战的问题。 PI计划通过开发新的大气科学课程来弥合DEI的差距，纳入研究生课程，旨在打破研究生进入DEI参与的传统障碍。该课程将提供结构和资源，帮助参与者成为新的“多样性领导者”，更好地准备解决地球科学所面临的独特的参与，代表和包容性挑战的问题。本课程将提供一个以行动为导向的机制和模式，以培训，教育和授权日益增长的多元化领导者。具体的课程和相关活动目标包括培训如何：1）识别社会身份及其如何塑造科学思想和实践，2）评估和解释科学技术对边缘化群体的影响，3）识别和应对STEM中的隐性和显性偏见，4）认识到地球科学界内外的社会正义问题，重点是设计和实施干预措施，5）充当不同生活方式的人的倡导者和盟友-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。

A challenge of note in STEM is that diversity, equity and inclusion is often siloed from many aspects of the scientific process and portions of the atmospheric science scientific community. New approaches and entry points at higher levels of engagement are needed to foster “a diverse community of researchers, scholars, and practitioners” in the geosciences. To this end, the PIs will develop a novel hybrid (face-to-face and online components) atmospheric science course designed to break down traditional barriers for entry into diversity, equity and inclusion engagement by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The course will provide the structure and resources to help participants emerge as new “diversity leaders,” better prepared to address issues of participation, representation and inclusion challenges that are uniquely faced in the geosciences. The PIs plan to bridge DEI gaps by developing a new atmospheric science course, for inclusion in the graduate curriculum, designed to break down traditional barriers for entry into DEI engagement by graduate students. The course will provide the structure and resources to help participants emerge as new “diversity leaders,” better prepared to address issues of participation, representation and inclusion challenges that are uniquely faced in the geosciences. This course will provide an action-oriented mechanism and model to train, educate, and empower a growing cohort of diversity leaders. Specific course and related activity objectives include training on how to 1) identify social identity and how it shapes scientific thought and practice, 2) evaluate and explain the impacts of science and technology on marginalized groups, 3)identify and respond to manifestations of implicit and explicit bias in STEM, 4) recognize social justice issues in the geoscience community and beyond with a focus on designing and implementing interventions and 5) act as advocates and allies for people with different life-experiences.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.