GP-GO: Growing the number and diversity of non-geoscience undergraduates in Cornell's graduate programs in Atmospheric and Geological Sciences with a Geoscience Learning Ecosystem

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。地球科学的研究生学习需要多种技能，并有可能吸引来自无数本科专业的学生，包括化学、工程、计算机科学、物理、生物、地理、数学以及社会和行为科学。此外，许多地球科学研究生课程为学生在社会相关领域的职业生涯做好准备，如自然灾害、能源、水、矿产资源和气候变化，这些领域应该吸引来自这些不同本科专业的学生。然而，一些研究表明，学生对地球科学职业的看法与现实不符。pi建议建立一个地球科学学习生态系统，以提高来自不同本科专业的学生在本科和研究生之间的关键时刻对地球科学职业的认识。pi试图回答这样一个问题：哪种策略最有效地增加攻读地球科学学士学位的非地球科学本科专业学生的数量和多样性？康奈尔地球路径地球科学学习生态系统（CorGGLE）项目的首要目标是设计和测试一个新颖的夏季桥梁项目，帮助非地球科学领域的学生过渡到地球科学研究生课程，特别是让他们接触到地球科学领域无数与社会相关的职业。该项目的关键要素包括：(1)吸引不同的本科院校和学生；(2)在康奈尔大学提供与社会相关的夏季地球科学研究项目；(3)通过康奈尔大学屡获殊荣的工程多样性项目，突出科学、技术、工程和数学领域的专业和社会发展；(4)提供职业指导。为了完成连接地球科学学习生态系统的创建，pi计划开发和实施一个为期九周的夏季桥梁项目，包括每年夏天为六名来自地球科学以外的学生提供研究和职业指导。该计划的一个新颖之处在于，学生的研究和经验将跨越与社会高度相关的多个学科，包括气候变化、自然灾害、水、能源和矿产资源。在经历和计划的活动结束时，学生将1)意识到地球科学在高社会相关性领域的科学机会，2)接触到多种职业道路，3)发展一群同龄人，4)将获得来自地球科学家的推荐信，这将增加他们成功进入研究生课程的机会。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Graduate studies in the geosciences require diverse skills and have the potential to attract students from myriad undergraduate majors including chemistry, engineering, computer science, physics, biology, geography, mathematics and the social and behavioral sciences. Further, many geoscience graduate programs prepare students for careers in societally relevant fields such as natural hazards, energy, water, and mineral resources, and climate change, that should engage students from these diverse undergraduate majors. However, several studies have shown that student perceptions of careers in the geosciences do not match reality. PIs propose to develop a geoscience learning ecosystem that will increase the awareness of geoscience careers in students from diverse undergraduate majors at the critical juncture between undergraduate and graduate school. PIs seek to answer the question: Which strategies are most effective for increasing the number and diversity of non-geoscience undergraduate majors that pursue post-baccalaureate degrees in geoscience? The over-arching goal of the Cornell Geopaths Geoscience Learning Ecosystem (CorGGLE) program will be to design and test a novel summer bridge program that helps students from non-geoscience fields transition into geoscience graduate programs, specifically giving them exposure to myriad socially relevant careers in the geosciences. The key elements of the project include: (1) engaging diverse undergraduate institutions and students, (2) offering societally relevant summer research projects in geosciences at Cornell, (3) highlighting professional and social development across Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields facilitated by Cornell’s award-winning Diversity Programs in Engineering, and (4) providing career mentoring. To accomplish the creation of a connected geoscience learning ecosystem, PIs plan to develop and implement a nine-week summer bridge program, consisting of research and career mentoring for six students per summer from outside the geosciences. A novel aspect of the proposed program is that student research and experiences will span multiple disciplines of high societal relevance, including climate change, natural hazards, and water, energy and mineral resources. By the end of the experience and proposed activities, students will 1) become aware of scientific opportunities in geosciences in areas of high societal relevance, 2) be exposed to multiple career paths, 3) develop a cohort of peers, and 4) will have letters of recommendation from geoscientists that will enhance their chances for successful admission to a graduate program.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.