Implementation Grant: Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting cultural change In geoscience Research and Education (INSPIRE)

实施促进地球科学研究教育文化变革的新解决方案（INSPIRE）计划提供了一个多方面的解决方案，用于改变文化，转移权力，并真正参与跨学科地球和环境科学中服务不足的社区。INSPIRE将指导，培训和发展早期职业生涯的研究人员和专业人士在地球科学历史上代表性不足。通过加强研究机构和少数民族服务机构（MSI）之间的关系，INSPIRE将使地球科学非殖民化，通过共同设计研究计划优先考虑社区的参与，并促进地球科学知识在全国范围内的公平共享。INSPIRE将培养一个公正、公平和包容的地球科学研究社区，反映国家的多样性，并植根于多方向的倾听和知识转移。INSPIRE将重点关注未来地球科学领导者的两个群体，他们经常在过渡点失去：1）研究生院之前; 2）任期之前。桥梁学者（后学士学位）将通过以气候为重点的桥梁到博士课程，将包括在研究生水平的课程报名，参与研究，并推出基于证据的自我肯定组件，装甲项目的支持和培训。访问学者（在MSI的早期职业教师/研究人员）将获得技能和经验，通过他们的家乡机构与合作支持开发以社区为重点的地球科学研究-并与-哥伦比亚大学科学家的伙伴关系。哥伦比亚东道方/导师对访问研究员所在机构的互访将是其合作的一个组成部分，并将加强机构伙伴关系。来自两个队列的参与者将与纽约市的社区接触，以获得以社区为重点的地球科学研究共同设计的经验。哥伦比亚地球科学界，包括其校友，将参与指导和支持的协调行动，并将为两个群体的成员提供建立联系的机会。一个由来自MSIs和BIPOC STEM领导人的科学家和学者组成的文化顾问理事会将通过沟通和一年两次的会议就项目方向提供指导和反馈。与他们的导师，主持人和合作者一起，INSPIRE的14名访问学者和16名桥梁学者将成为变革的推动者，他们将把这种新颖的研究和教育生态系统的各个方面传播到多个机构。INSPIRE将为地球科学领域的系统性变革和文化转型提供新的解决方案。它将支持和维持以多样性、公平性、包容性和可访问性（DEIA）为中心的计划，并为新计划的蓬勃发展创造资源和机会。这个奖项反映了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。

Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting Cultural Change In Geoscience Research & Education (INSPIRE) program delivers a multi-faceted solution for transforming culture, shifting power, and authentically engaging underserved communities within the transdisciplinary earth and environmental sciences. INSPIRE will mentor, train, and develop early-career researchers and professionals historically underrepresented in the geosciences. By strengthening relationships between research institutions and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), INSPIRE will decolonize geoscience, prioritize engagement of communities through co-design of research programs, and promote the equitable sharing of geoscientific knowledge broadly across our nation. INSPIRE will foster a just, equitable, and inclusive geoscience research community that reflects the diversity of the nation and is rooted in multi-directional listening and knowledge transfer.INSPIRE will focus on two cohort populations of future geoscience leaders at the transition points where they are often lost: 1) prior to graduate school; and, 2) prior to tenure. Bridge Scholars (post-baccalaureates) will be supported and trained through a climate-focused Bridge-to-PhD program that will include enrolling in graduate-level classes, participating in research, and launching an evidence-based self-affirmation component, the Armor Project. Visiting Fellows (early career faculty/researchers at MSIs) will gain skills and experience for developing community-focused geoscience research through their home institutions with collaborative support from - and partnerships with - Columbia University scientists. Reciprocal visits from Columbia hosts/mentors to the Visiting Fellow home institutions will be an integral part of their collaboration and will strengthen institutional partnerships. Participants from both cohorts will engage with communities in New York City to gain experience with community-focused co-design of geoscience research. The Columbia geoscience community, including its alumni, will participate in coordinated action of mentoring and support, and will offer networking opportunities to members of both cohorts. A Council of Cultural Advisors of scientists and scholars from MSIs and BIPOC leaders in STEM will provide guidance and feedback on program directions through communications and biannual meetings. Together with their mentors, host and collaborators, INSPIRE’s 14 Visiting Fellows and 16 Bridge Scholars will become agents of change who will propagate aspects of this novel research and education ecosystem into multiple institutions. INSPIRE will deliver novel solutions for systemic change and cultural transformation long overdue in the geosciences. It will support and sustain Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)-centered programs, and will create resources and opportunities for new programs to flourish. The envisioned cultural transformation will increase the creativity, equity, relevance, and impact of geoscience.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.