EAGER: The Geoscience behind Resilient Infrastructure Careers: Unlocking the Intrinsic Value of Diverse Communities

这项提议概述了新兴的地球科学学者(EGS)模式，这是一种培养人才和欢迎身份的新方法。私人投资机构提议试行新的办法，让专业协会与主办其年度会议的城市的人们接触。私人投资机构建议每年适度地从20-30名来自历史上代表性不足的社区、脱节的青年、退伍军人和过渡时期(失业或就业不足)人的学者开始调查职业，并作为新兴专业人员在一个重要的地球科学会议--美国地球物理联合会(AGU)秋季会议上分享他们的研究结果。通过在专业科学会议上分享他们的工作，并将一个主要科学学会和大型学术机构的分量放在这些调查的支持下，想法可以成长为一种实践，最终可以改变地球科学基础设施和劳动力以及其他科学和专业协会。拜登政府将重点放在基础设施和保护上，与AGU及其涵盖的许多专业合作是这一试验计划的理想起点。该计划旨在通过确保未来地球科学和更广泛的基础设施工作人员采用以公平、正义和包容为核心价值和方法的价值观和方法-来自多样性的力量-来增加有弹性和可持续的已建成基础设施的能力，并促进气候正义。一个可持续的未来地球科学劳动力必须由有色人种、美洲原住民和移民组成，并最终由他们领导。它必须从现在开始，从这一代人开始。这个拟议的学习/培训生态系统旨在成为一个开源模式或模板，可供全国其他专业协会和合作教育机构采用；因此，它有助于为发展一支多样化和具有全球竞争力的美国劳动力队伍而建立共同的教育和研究基础设施。通过解决气候变化压力下对城市沿海社区重要的问题，这一努力有可能改善社会人民的福祉。通过在当地科学和社会问题上教育和吸引青年和终身学习者，它有助于培养更多参与和了解情况的公众，以及扩大地球科学领域的种族和民族多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This proposal outlines the Emerging Geoscience Scholars (EGS) model, a novel approach towards nurturing talent and welcoming identity. The PIs propose to pilot new approaches to the engagement of professional societies with people in the cities that host their annual meetings. The PIs propose to start modestly with 20-30 scholars from historically underrepresented communities, disconnected youth, veterans, and transitional (unemployed or underemployed) people per year investigating careers and sharing their findings as emerging professionals at a major geoscience conference, the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). By sharing their work in a professional science meeting and putting the weight of a major scientific society and large academic institution behind those investigations, ideas can grow into a practice that can ultimately transform the geoscience infrastructure and workforce as well as other scientific and professional associations. With the emphasis that the Biden Administration has put on infrastructure and conservation, partnering with AGU, and the many professions it covers, is an ideal starting point for this experimental program.This program aims to increase the capacity for a resilient and sustainable built infrastructure and advance climate justice, by ensuring that the geoscience and the wider infrastructure workforce of the future adopts values and methods that center on and embrace the core values of equity, justice, and inclusiveness - from diversity comes strength. A sustainable future workforce for the geosciences must be composed of, and ultimately led by, people of color, Native Americans, and immigrants. It must start now with this rising generation. This proposed learning/training ecosystem is designed to be an open-source model or template that can be adopted by other professional associations and partnering educational institutions nationwide; it thus contributes to the common educational and research infrastructure for the development of a diverse and globally competitive US workforce. By addressing issues important to urban coastal communities under pressures from climate change, the effort has the potential to improve the wellbeing of people in society. By educating and engaging youth and lifelong learners in local scientific and social issues, it helps develop a more involved and informed public as well as broadening racial and ethnic diversity in the geosciencesThis 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.