An Immersive GEO-Revolution Adventure Experience for HBCU Undergraduates

位于美国巴尔的摩市的摩根州立大学的历史、地理博物馆研究系将开展一项为期两年的试点桥梁项目，涉及20名历史黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的本科生。该试点旨在帮助这些学生过渡到地理，地球科学和地理空间科学的研究生学位课程。目标本科生将有准备，并通过完成相关的主要和次要学位课程的选修和必修课程，在这些学科领域的研究生学习表现出实质性的承诺。位于美国切萨皮克地区的HBCU是该计划的主要人才库，包括鲍伊州立大学、科平州立大学、霍华德大学、摩根州立大学和马里兰州东海岸大学。该计划的目的是为代表地理，地球科学和地理空间科学的下一代科学家提供概念和实用工具，以产生与环境，政治和经济质量有关的水灾害和气候变化问题的文化相关解决方案。这些问题往往不成比例地影响居住在城市，郊区和沿海环境中的有色人种。该计划将提供基于课堂和虚拟研讨会，强调领导原则和地理学家，地理科学家，地理空间科学家和其他学科所支持的价值观。此外，提供实地研究的机会，以帮助参与者制定对科学研究和宣传有关的水灾害缓解在巴尔的摩市和其他地方的切萨皮克地区，反映过去，现在和预测的气候变化暴露变量的原因和后果，往往导致小和极端比例的灾害更高程度的理解。通过结合培训讲习班和实地研究演习有关的水灾害和气候变化在不同的环境类型，特别是对于那些谁遇到体制和其他地方为基础的限制，该计划具有很大的潜力，作为领导力发展的典范，为有色人种赋予自己成为科学家谁持有最高的尊重和实践正义，公平，多样性，并通过他们的研究和公民义务在学院内外的包容性。此外，该计划可能会提供非参与HBCU和其他少数民族服务机构在美国的功能方法，以增加他们的本科生谁有意寻求和查看在程序重点学科的高级学位的收购为手段，为更大的代表性和领导力在其他科学领域的努力，并在更大的社会。 这个为期两年的试点桥梁计划旨在通过实践研究培训练习，专家指导和指导支持，建立美国地理，地球科学和地理空间科学研究生的数量和质量。该计划的目标是那些在位于切萨皮克地区的HBCU注册的学生，他们通过学位入学状态和课程完成情况与重点学科有着重大和中度的关系，但可能缺乏额外的刺激，支持和研究生水平学习的途径。该计划旨在使目标学生能够超越传统的课堂结构，并开始实地研究冒险，这有助于建立他们的：（1）理解地理，地球科学和地理空间科学与水灾害和气候变化有关的科学观点;（2）对使用科学研究工具进行决策和实践目的的知识生产的信心;以及（3）与城市居民、社区非营利组织、政府机构、专业组织、地方和国家保护团体和研究所以及以环境为中心的实验室建立密切关系和平等伙伴关系的公共意识运动的沟通技能。三个原则定义计划建议：（1）高接触实地研究经验是有效的学习和职业发展途径对环境问题，如水灾害和气候变化;（2）研究生课程申请和招生成功的机会与学科的重点上升时，HBCU本科生得到有意和关怀的支持;和（3）社区-大学的伙伴关系导致更好的科学和发现，使公众更好地理解和实施对文化敏感的方法，以处理可变和不成比例的水灾害和气候变化的影响，当城市，郊区，该项目由地球科学多样性领导机会（GOLD-EN）计划和历史上黑人学院和大学卓越研究联合资助该奖项反映了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。

The History, Geography & Museum Studies Department at Morgan State University in Baltimore City, USA will operate a two-year pilot bridge program involving 20 undergraduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The pilot aims to assist these students in transitioning to graduate-level degree programs in geography, the geosciences, and geospatial sciences. The targeted undergraduates will have had preparation and demonstrate substantial promise for graduate study in those discipline fields through completed elective and required coursework in relevant major and minor degree programs. HBCUs located in the Chesapeake region of the United States are the principal talent pools of the program, and are inclusive of Bowie State University, Coppin State University, Howard University, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The aim of the program is to equip the next generation of scientists representing geography, the geosciences, and geospatial sciences with conceptual and practical tools that serve to produce culturally relevant solutions to water hazards and climate change matters of an environmental, political, and economic quality. Those matters most often disproportionately impact people of color residing in urban, suburban, and coastal environments. The program will provide classroom-based and virtual workshops emphasizing leadership principles and values espoused by geographers, geoscientists, geospatial scientists, and those in other disciplines. Additionally, field-based study opportunities are offered to help participants formulate a higher degree of understanding towards scientific research and advocacy relating to water hazard mitigation in Baltimore City and elsewhere in the Chesapeake region that reflect past, present, and forecasted climate change exposures of variable cause and consequence which lead oftentimes to disasters of small and extreme proportions. By combining training workshops and field study exercises relating to water hazards and climate change in different environment types, particularly for those who encounter institutional and other place-based constraints, the program has great potential to stand as a model example of leadership development for people of color to empower themselves to be scientists who hold in the highest regard and practice principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion within the academy and beyond through their research and citizenship duties. Furthermore, the program may offer non-participating HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions across the United States functional approaches for increasing their number of undergraduates who intentionally seek and view the acquisition of advanced degrees in the disciplines of program focus as the means for greater representation and leadership across other scientific fields of endeavor and in the larger society. This two-year pilot bridge program serves to build the quantity and quality of United States graduate students of color in geography, the geosciences, and geospatial sciences through hands-on research training exercises, expert guidance, and mentoring support. The program targets those enrolled at HBCUs located in the Chesapeake region who possess a major as well as moderate relationship with the disciplines of focus through degree enrollment status and coursework completion yet may lack additional stimuli, supports, and pathways towards graduate-level study. The program aims to enable target students to go beyond traditional classroom structures and embark on field research adventures that contribute to building their: (1) comprehension of scientific viewpoints in geography, geosciences, and geospatial sciences relating to water hazards and climate change; (2) confidence in the use of scientific research instruments towards knowledge production for policymaking and practice purposes; and (3) communication skills for public awareness campaigns in close proximity and equal partnership with city neighborhood residents, community-based nonprofit organizations, government agencies, professional organizations, local and national conservation groups and institutes, and environment-centered laboratories. Three principles defining program suggest that: (1) high-touch field-based research experiences are effective learning and career development pathways towards environmental matters like water hazards and climate change; (2) the chances for graduate program application and enrollment success with the disciplines of focus rise when HBCU undergraduates receive intentional and caring support; and (3) community-university partnerships lead to better science and discovery towards greater public understanding and implementation of culturally responsive approaches towards dealing with variable and disproportionate water hazard and climate change impacts when people of color in cities, suburbs, and coastal towns across the Chesapeake region and perhaps beyond its boundaries are centered in such work.This project is jointly funded by the Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity (GOLD-EN) Program and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Excellence in Research (HBCU-EiR) 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.