Implementation grant: NewGeo: A Newark Geo-ecosystem for cultural transformation and systemic change in the geosciences

纽瓦克地球科学生态系统（NewGeo）是一个变革性的学习地球生态系统模型，将纽瓦克的机构和组织联合起来，培养一支准备通过跨部门合作解决城市环境挑战的地球科学队伍。罗格斯大学纽瓦克领导NewGeo，这是一个西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），其锚机构使命集中在社区参与，城市环境中的科学以及通过整合多样性和包容性在所有追求中的包容性卓越。通过体验式学习机会，NewGeo研究生与纽瓦克的政府，工业和教育部门建立合作伙伴关系，教授和指导K-16学生，并与非营利组织和社区组织合作。这在研究生和他们指导的有抱负的地球科学家中灌输了公民责任感。该项目培养了一支具有代表性的地球科学工作队伍，并准备与当地公民一起解决环境和气候压力和不公正问题。该NewGeo教师和管理人员促进包容性，协作和积极的环境中的地理生态系统;实施并成为战略的实践者，以鼓励和支持学生，个人和社区从边缘化和少数群体;和正规化的关系和制度化的最佳实践有效的伙伴关系和整个系统的变化。所有NewGeo的参与者都影响和激励他们的专业和社交网络，在他们的实践社区内分享，并将成果传播到更广泛的地球科学界，以适应和采用NewGeo模式，在多个层面上进行文化转型。NewGeo为来自少数群体和边缘化群体的参与者创造了以社区为中心的职业道路，并使传统上被排斥的非学术社区参与科学话语。NewGeo由研究生群体带头，通过与非学术合作伙伴的协作，自我指导的参与来改变他们的教育和挑战地球科学文化。研究生环境社区外展研究生助理（ECO GAs）利用他们的学术准备，并通过与NewGeo合作伙伴合作的基于地方的体验式学习经验来建立职业技能。活动包括嵌入式社区实习，K-12外展，志愿服务，本科生指导，以及专业和领导力发展。教师和管理人员激活他们的资本作为变革的推动者，革命化的地球科学（收费），以诱导文化转型。该群体负责研究，创建，制度化和传播NewGeo最佳实践，政策和程序，同时参与自我指导和反思的专业发展。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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The Newark Geoscience Ecosystem (NewGeo) is a transformative learning geo-ecosystem model uniting Newark-based institutions and organizations in the growth of a geoscience workforce prepared to solve urban environmental challenges through cross-sectoral collaboration. Rutgers University Newark leads NewGeo, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with an anchor institution mission centered on community engagement, science in the urban environment, and inclusive excellence through integration of diversity and inclusion in all pursuits. Through experiential learning opportunities, NewGeo graduate students build partnerships with Newark’s government, industry and education sectors, teach and mentor K-16 students, and collaborate with non-profits and community-based organizations. This instills a sense of civic responsibility in graduate students and the aspiring geoscientists they mentor. This project cultivates a geoscience workforce that is representative of and prepared to engage with the local citizenry to tackle environmental and climate stresses and injustices. The NewGeo faculty and administrators promote inclusive, collaborative, and positive environments in the geo-ecosystem; implement and become practitioners of strategies to encourage and support students, individuals, and communities from marginalized and minoritized groups; and formalize relationships and institutionalize best practices for effective partnerships and whole system change. All NewGeo participants influence and inspire their professional and social networks, share within their communities of practice, and disseminate outcomes to the broader geoscience community for adaptation and adoption of the NewGeo model for cultural transformation at multiple levels.NewGeo creates community-centered career pathways for participants from minoritized and marginalized groups and engages a traditionally excluded non-academic community in the scientific discourse. NewGeo is spearheaded by a graduate student cohort that transforms their education and challenges geoscience culture through collaborative, self-directed engagement with non-academic partners. Graduate student environment community-outreach graduate assistants (ECO GAs) leverage their academic preparation and build career skills through place-based experiential learning experiences in collaboration with NewGeo partners. Activities include embedded community-based internships, K-12 outreach, volunteerism, mentoring of undergraduates, and professional and leadership development. Faculty and administrators activate their capital as change agents for revolutionizing the geosciences (CHARGE) to induce cultural transformation. The cohort is CHARGEd to research, create, institutionalize and disseminate NewGeo best practices, policies and procedures, while engaging in self-guided and reflective professional development.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.