| NSF Org: |
RISE Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | September 1, 2016 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 24, 2021 |
| Award Number: | 1645467 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Elizabeth Rom
elrom@nsf.gov (703)292-7709 RISE Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER) GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | September 15, 2016 |
| End Date: | April 30, 2022 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $22,412.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $82,077.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2020 = $59,665.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
2020 HORNS POINT RD CAMBRIDGE MD US 21613-3368 (410)221-2014 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
PO Box 38 Solomons MD US 20688-0038 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch |
| Primary Program Source: |
01001617DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
Active Societal Participation In Research and Education (ASPIRE) aims to cultivate a generation of geoscientists with the leadership knowledge and skills, scholarship, and material support to communicate the social relevance of geosciences, and thereby, to broaden participation in these fields. The proposed project will evaluate the effectiveness of place-based science as a vehicle for increasing diversity in the Geoscience. The ASPIRE collaborators will organize Mobile Working Groups (MWG) that will be led by an academic geoscientist who works with a local community on issues that require an expertise in the geosciences. These MWG leaders are referred to as "gate-openers". Each MWG will focus on a single issue linked to a single community, but ASPIRE will support multiple MWGs working across a variety of issues and geoscience topics.
During the pilot period, ASPIRE will: 1) learn from the experiences and qualities of geoscientists who already possess experience leading community-relevant research, 2) support them "individually and collectively" as leaders of MWGs over a period of one year, 3) identify from their prior and current experiences the sort of leadership required to bridge underserved and geoscience communities, and 4) define and refine the leadership, networking, and logistical support needs that a fully implemented "bricks and mortar" center would require. Over the course of the pilot project, ASPIRE will conservatively involve up to forty individuals from across a variety of geoscience institutions, with an additional thirty or more participants, support staff and evaluators. The PIs hypothesize that in institutionalizing a new mode of geoscience research (MWG), learning from the leaders' experiences with MWG, and refining a leadership development program based on findings, they will have a scalable leadership tool and organizational structure that will rebrand the geosciences as socially relevant and inclusive of geoscientists from diverse backgrounds.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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The Active Societal Participation In Research and Education (ASPIRE) project focused on piloting support of mobile working groups embedded in historically marginalized communities with a geoscientist boundary spanner who had a “foot in both worlds” to navigate between academic and community spaces. In moving geoscience research outside of the "ivory tower" this project sought to center community needs and broaden participation via co-produced research. In addition to supporting mobile working groups, this project participated in scholarship emphasizing the idea of "Equitable Exchange" as a guiding principle for geoscience research with communities and as a mechanism for justice and cultivating a sense of belonging. This resulted in the publication of a commentary (Harris & Garza et al. 2021) in the American Geophysical Union's ADVANCES journal. Co-PI Harris led an additional manuscript focused on broadening participation in coastal science communities that highlighted the mismatch between the demographics of the coastal science and management community and the diverse communities in United States counties and coastal watersheds (Harris et al. 2021). Scholarship led by collaborators at the University of Southern California also identified key leadership characteristics of the geoscientists who engage in this work as boundary spanners (Southern et al. in review). We delivered a virtual discussion series around these leadership insights with an emphasis on 1) understanding critical scientific history 2) centering community voices 3) reciprocity and data sharing 4) navigating politicized relationships and 5) community facilitation and care. The discussion series drew 120 participants, including a team of community advisors who gave voice to their experiences working with academic researchers. In addition to the two publications described here, results of the work were also shared at national conferences, in briefings with institutions seeking cultural change, and at regional scales where co-production of science with communities is taking place.
Harris, L. A., Garza, C., Hatch, M., Parrish, J., Posselt, J., Alvarez Rosario, J. P., ... & Reyes, K. (2021). Equitable Exchange: A framework for diversity and inclusion in the geosciences. AGU Advances, 2(2), e2020AV000359.
Harris, L. A., Grayson, T., Neckles, H. A., Emrich, C. T., Lewis, K. A., Grimes, K. W., ... & Quispe, J. (2022). A socio-ecological imperative for broadening participation in coastal and estuarine research and management. Estuaries and Coasts, 45(1), 38-48.
Last Modified: 07/29/2022
Modified by: Lora A Harris
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