Building a diverse ocean science community through collaboration: Reframing the R1-MSI research partnership model.

该项目解决了国家科学基金会（NSF）的研究资金组合中少数服务机构（MSIs）缺乏代表性的问题。为了解决这个问题，该项目提供了一个独特的培训计划，以支持教师和工作人员在阿拉斯加土著服务机构，历史上的黑人学院和大学，西班牙裔服务机构，太平洋岛民服务机构和部落学院围绕开发竞争性赠款申请的过程海洋科学在NSF的司。参与者将学习在不同的NSF资助计划的背景下编写提案的过程，并学习如何开发可以在提案中利用的研究网络。该团队还与一级研究机构（R1）合作，帮助他们了解如何将MSI合作伙伴纳入赠款提案中，而不仅仅是外展和/或教育专家的角色。在最后的研讨会上，该项目汇集了来自MSI和R1机构的参与者，以开发利用各自专业知识的合作研究项目，并设计独特的研究思路，推动21世纪世纪的海洋科学。这种方法提供了一个模型，MSI和R1机构可以如何调整其目前的合作方式，以提高从NSF获得海洋科学研究资金的MSI的数量。该项目旨在培养一个海洋科学界的知识和技能，重新构建MSI和R1如何在赠款提案开发过程中合作。为了实现这一变化，该团队正在开发研讨会，培训MSI和R1的人员如何克服进入NSF海洋科学资助社区的障碍。研讨会将侧重于提高参与者对NSF计划和流程的熟悉程度，开发协同作用，克服MSI和R1之间可用的赠款开发资源的不平等，并提高R1人员对MSI机构内固有的研究和整体文化的熟悉程度。除了包括教师，该项目还与赞助计划的工作人员在每个机构类型1）帮助他们更好地了解如何浏览与NSF赠款相关的行政要求，2）开发的方式，每个机构的内部赠款支持结构可以在合作提案中利用。后一种类别对于可能没有R1机构提供的赞助计划基础设施的MSI特别具有限制性。这一模式促进MSIs和R1之间的真正合作，以支持NSF的海洋研究使命，同时满足更广泛的目标，增加从事海洋科学研究的人员的多样性。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The project addresses the lack of representation of minority serving institutions (MSIs) within the research funding portfolio of the National Science Foundation (NSF). To address this issue, this project provides a unique training program to support faculty and staff at Alaska Native Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Pacific Islanders Serving Institutions and Tribal Colleges around the process of developing competitive grant applications for the Division of Ocean Science at NSF. Participants will learn the process of writing proposals within the context of different NSF funding programs and learn how to develop research networks that can be leveraged within a proposal. The team is also working with Tier 1 Research Institutions (R1) to help them understand how to incorporate MSI partners in grant proposals beyond the role of outreach and/or education specialists. In a culminating workshop, this project brings together participants from MSI and R1 institutions to develop collaborative research projects that draw upon their respective expertise and to design unique research ideas that will advance 21st century ocean science. This approach provides a model for how MSI and R1 institutions can adapt their current collaborative approach to improve the number of MSIs receiving ocean science research funding from NSF.The project aims to cultivate an ocean science community with the knowledge and skills to reframe how MSIs and R1s collaborate within the grant proposal development process. To bring about this change, the team is developing workshops that will train personnel at MSIs and R1s on how to navigate barriers to inclusion in the NSF ocean science grant community. Workshops will focus on improving participant familiarity with NSF programs and processes, developing synergies that overcome inequities in grant development resources available between MSI and R1s, and improving familiarity by R1 personnel with the research and overall culture inherent within MSI institutions. Beyond including faculty, this project also works with sponsored programs staff at each institution type to 1) help them better understand how to navigate administrative requirements associated with NSF grants, and 2) develop ways in which each respective institutions’ internal grant support structures can be leveraged within collaborative proposals. This latter category can be particularly restrictive for MSIs which may not have the sponsored program infrastructure available at R1 institutions. This model promotes authentic collaborations between MSIs and R1 to support NSF’s ocean research mission while meeting broader goals of increasing the diversity of those engaging in ocean science research.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.