GP-UP: Project RESTORES (Retention of Earth Science Trainees through Opportunities in Restoration and Environmental Sciences)

高度城市化的沿海地区--如纽约市大都市区--是美国最容易受到海平面上升影响的地区之一。这些地区对沿海地质学家的需求将很大，以帮助恢复和准备沿海环境，然而，培养一支多样化和有才华的劳动力以满足这一需求的挑战依然存在。恢复项目(通过恢复和环境科学的机会留住地球科学实习生)建立在一系列关于历史上被STEM排除在外的学生需求的证据的基础上，并实施了从高中到职业生涯通过地球科学途径支持这些学生的最佳做法。PIS计划利用莫洛伊学院在招收多样化的STEM学生方面取得的成功，在沿海地球科学教育领域创造新的机会。目标“招聘”学校的人口结构确保了该项目将有助于缩小劳动力需求与即将毕业的地学学生技能之间的差距。该项目旨在培养能够帮助沿海生态系统为应对气候变化和我们不断变化的世界中的其他压力做好准备的地球科学专业人员。恢复项目的总体目标是增加地球科学专业的学生数量；保留历史上被STEM排除在外的高比例学生；建设可持续支持这些学生的教师和机构能力；培养高素质的地球科学毕业生，以满足项目区对这些专业人员日益增长的需求。为支持这些目标，恢复需要三个目标：1)实施和评估有针对性的招聘活动，以在三年内将地球科学的注册人数增加55%；2)制定一个强有力的框架，以支持和留住教育-职业管道中的参与者；以及3)为项目参与者提供严格的地球科学研究经验。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。

Highly urbanized coastal areas—such as the New York City metropolitan area—are among the nation’s most susceptible to the effects of sea-level rise. Coastal geoscientists in these areas will be in high demand to help restore and prepare coastal environments, yet the challenge of producing a diverse and talented workforce to match this need remains. Project RESTORES (Retention of Earth Science Trainees through Opportunities in Restoration and Environmental Sciences) builds on a body of evidence regarding the needs of students who have been historically excluded in STEM and implements best practices for supporting these students through geoscience pathways from high school to careers. The PIs plan to leverage Molloy College’s established success in recruiting a diverse STEM student body to forge new opportunities in coastal geoscience education. The demographics of the targeted "recruitment" schools ensure the project will help close the gap between workforce needs and the skills of graduating geoscience students. The project seeks to produce geoscience professionals capable of helping to prepare coastal ecosystems for climate change and other stressors in our changing world. The overarching goals of RESTORES are to increase the number of students in the geosciences; retain a high rate of students who have historically been excluded in STEM; build faculty and institutional capacity that supports these students sustainably; and produce highly qualified geoscience graduates to fulfill the growing need for these professionals in the project area. RESTORES entails three objectives in support of these goals: 1) to implement and evaluate targeted recruitment activities to increase geosciences enrollment by 55% over three years; 2) to develop a robust framework to support and retain participants in the education-career pipeline; and 3) to provide rigorous geosciences research experiences for project participants.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.