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RISE Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 14, 2021 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 14, 2021 |
| Award Number: | 2131066 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Aisha Morris
armorris@nsf.gov (703)292-7081 RISE Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER) GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2021 |
| End Date: | August 31, 2022 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $8,784.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $8,784.00 |
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4333 BROOKLYN AVE NE SEATTLE WA US 98195-1016 (206)543-4043 |
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| NSF Program(s): | GOLD-GEO Opps LeadersDiversity |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
This project aims to host a four-day summit with fifteen leaders from Geoscience organizations with a demonstrated interest in improving belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusivity (BeAJEDI). The summit will provide these leaders with opportunities to share successful strategies for improving BeAJEDI in Geoscience. Leaders at the summit will design a conference where ~100-300 Geoscientists network, present their research, and share successful strategies for improving BeAJEDI in Geoscience. The summit will thus begin the process of increasing interagency and interpersonal sharing, design, and refinement of the strategies used to strengthen BeAJEDI in Geoscience.
The main goal of this project is to host a four-day summit with 15 leaders from the largest and or influential Geoscience organizations with a demonstrated interest in improving belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusivity (BeAJEDI) in Geoscience. Summit participants will collaboratively design a conference workshop while sharing successful strategies for improving BeAJEDI for Geoscientists of Color. This designed workshop will be primarily attended by Geoscientists and will allow attendees to present research and network. The workshop will also include surveying and interviewing attendees to collect information that are germane for successfully recruiting and retaining People of Color within Geoscience. The questions that the surveys and interviews seek to answer are:
1. What attracts People of Color to Geoscience?
2. What are the experiences of Geoscientists of Color?
3. What do full belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusivity look like to Geoscientists of Color?
Alongside developing a novel method of answering the questions listed above, this project's broader impacts are strengthened by including a mentorship component. The summit will pair early-career researchers interested in BeAJEDI issues with established and experienced individuals. The early-career researchers will gain conference proposal writing experience while expanding their network.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
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This project collaborated with the PI at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) to plan a summit meeting at the Scripps campus, will address broadening participation of underrepresented groups in geoscience, a field that still lacks diversity compared to other science and engineering fields. The summit meeting is scheduled to take place Monday, March 20 to Friday, March 24, 2023, at the Martin Johnson House, La Jolla, California. This collaboration facilitated the creation of a new working group called Representation and Retention in Geoscience (R2GEO) to organize a summit meeting that will support the cost of travel and lodging for attendees. The mission of R2GEO is to host a summit that will invite approximately 15 people that want to be a part of a team to plan a future inaugural conference focusing on improving representation and retention of underrepresented groups in geoscience. The project focused on creating outreach communication and promotional materials to engage with the geoscience and related communities to generate interest to apply to the R2GEO summit meeting. Specifically, we marketed the summit to geoscientists and social scientists from all professional stages. To promote the summit, we communicated with several geoscience organizations and affinity groups to apply. A website and twitter account were created to publish information about the summit meeting. We created an application that surveys the interests and skills of the applicant. The R2GEO group will review applications until February 24, 2023. The project has served to complete the planning and promotion of the forthcoming R2GEO summit meeting in March 2023. Updates about the summit meeting will be posted on the website at https://r2geo.ucsd.edu.
Last Modified: 02/05/2023
Modified by: Kevin Kwong
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