Broadening Geosciences Disciplines at the National Association of Black Geoscientists Annual Technical Conference: Houston, TX, September 5-8, 2018

全国黑人地球科学家协会年度技术会议拓宽地球科学学科：德克萨斯州休斯顿，2018 年 9 月 5 日至 8 日

• 批准号: 1836331
• 负责人: Stephen Boss
• 金额: $ 3.8万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-15 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1836331&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Geosciences; Disciplines; National; Association

This project provides partial support for about 10 faculty from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and for about 50 students-of-color from across the nation to participate in the Annual Technical Conference of the National Association of Black Geoscientists (NABG), 5-8 September 2018 in Houston, TX. Engaging HBCU faculty in professional development opportunities such the NABG will help maintaining their scholarship and social capital among prospective employers of their graduates. Furthermore, most HBCU degree programs of relevance to the geosciences are environmental and atmospheric sciences programs. Students in these programs are historically under-represented at the NABG annual conference. The objective is to expand the disciplinary representation of NABG to include more people-of-color interested in broader disciplines of Geosciences. A primary aim of this project is to engage faculty and students in HBCU environmental sciences programs and aid their participation in a national conference of importance to placing them in the 21st Century geosciences workforce. Despite the efforts of professional organizations like NABG, underrepresentation of African Americans in geosciences remains low. Recent assessments found that degree awards in geosciences to persons from underrepresented groups remain very low; 10% of geoscience degrees at every academic level are awarded to those with minority status, and African Americans earn fewer than 3% of geoscience baccalaureate degrees. Earlier participants in NABG meetings have continued in their academic preparation in geosciences or entered the national geosciences workforce; including 100% career advancement for students who attended at least four NABG conferences. Thus, participation of students-of-color in NABG appears to be strongly correlated with career success.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.

该项目为来自历史悠久的黑人学院（HBCU）的大约10名教职员工提供了部分支持，并为来自全国各地的大约50名彩色学生参加了参加全国黑人地球科学家协会（NABG）年度技术会议，5个2018年9月8日在德克萨斯州休斯敦。让HBCU教师参与NABG的专业发展机会，将有助于维持其毕业生潜在雇主的奖学金和社会资本。此外，与地球科学相关的大多数HBCU学位课程都是环境和大气科学计划。在NABG年度会议上，这些课程中的学生的代表性不足。目的是扩大NABG的学科表示，包括更多对更广泛的地球科学学科感兴趣的彩色人。该项目的主要目的是让教职员工和学生参与HBCU环境科学计划，并帮助他们参加全国性的重要会议，以将他们置于21世纪的地球科学劳动力中。尽管NABG等专业组织做出了努力，但地球科学中非洲裔美国人的代表性不足仍然很低。最近的评估发现，地球科学的学位奖项授予来自代表性不足的群体的人的奖项仍然很低。每个学术水平的地球科学学位的10％都授予少数群体地位的人，而非裔美国人的地球科学学士学位不到3％的地球学学士学位。 NABG会议的较早参与者继续在地球科学的学术准备工作中或进入全国地球科学员工；对于参加至少四次NABG会议的学生，包括100％的职业发展。因此，彩色学生在NABG的参与似乎与职业成功密切相关。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估标准通过评估来支持的。