Planning Grant: Connecting Our Unit throughv Relationships and Allyships in Geoscience (COURAGE)

规划补助金：通过地球科学领域的关系和盟友关系将我们的单位联系起来（勇气）

• 批准号: 2227402
• 负责人: Leilani Arthurs
• 金额: $ 27.17万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-15 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2227402&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Connecting; Our; Unit

The “Connecting Our Unit through Relationships and Allyships in GEoscience” or COURAGE project is a planning-track project that will lay the groundwork within the Department of Geological Sciences (GEOL) at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CUB) for a future implementation-track project. The goal is to transform the culture of the geoscience community by broadening participation of graduate students who come from historically underrepresented or marginalized communities in geoscience (HUCG) and building community partnerships for future community-based research that contributes to solutions to the complex environmental and societal challenges imposed by climate change. Recognizing that efforts to broaden participation in geoscience depends on relationships, this planning-track project will enact activities based on reciprocal relationships that foster community building within GEOL and lead to partnerships with local communities. To facilitate the alignment of relationships between geoscience faculty, graduate students, and community partners for the future conduct of community-based research, the proposed planning-track project will focus on building capacity among our GEOL faculty, building community among our GEOL graduate students, building relationships between faculty and graduate students, and building relationships between faculty and community partners. Thus, the intellectual focus of the proposed planning-track project is two-fold. First is to implement strategies and activities to overcome apparent barriers to community-based research with HUCG graduate students. Second is to undertake an introspective summative evaluation to describe (i) how existing norms and practices for broadening participation in GEOL evolve during the life of the project and (ii) the level of readiness for undertaking a future implementation-track project or similar activities. During the life of the project, GEOL faculty members and faculty members in other geoscience units will be impacted through their participation in two professional development programs as well as all geoscience graduate students through their participation in planning and/or participating in mentoring activities, recruiting activities, and other project activities. Furthermore, all GEOL faculty members are expected to be impacted by their graduate students’ engagement in project activities. The project will be a vehicle for open discussions and synergistic interactions between faculty and graduate students around broadening participation in geoscience. The project is also expected to impact ~10 faculty members and ~50 graduate students in other geoscience units; 100s of individuals from the local community; and ~10 local government agencies, private industries, and non-profit organizations. During the life of the project, it is also expected that geoscientists at CUB will connect with and develop relationships with members of local communities and form partnerships that could lead to mutually edifying community-based research that contributes to solutions to the complex environmental and societal challenges imposed by climate change. The cumulative impact of the planning-track project is to have the groundwork for geoscientists at CUB to pursue a CTGC implementation-track project or similar activities in the future.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.

“通过地球科学中的关系和盟友连接我们的单位”或 COURAGE 项目是一个规划轨道项目，将为科罗拉多大学博尔德分校 (CUB) 地质科学系 (GEOL) 的未来实施奠定基础。该项目的目标是通过扩大来自地球科学领域历史上代表性不足或边缘化社区 (HUCG) 的研究生的参与，并为未来基于社区的研究建立社区伙伴关系，从而改变地球科学社区的文化。认识到扩大地球科学参与的努力取决于关系，为解决气候变化带来的复杂环境和社会挑战做出贡献，该规划轨道项目将在互惠关系的基础上开展活动，促进 GEOL 内部的社区建设并与各方建立伙伴关系。为了促进地球科学教师、研究生和社区合作伙伴之间的关系协调一致，以便未来开展基于社区的研究，拟议的规划轨道项目将侧重于建设我们的 GEOL 教师的能力，在我们的 GEOL 中建立社区。毕业因此，拟议的规划轨道项目的智力重点有两个方面：首先是实施策略和活动，以克服社区的明显障碍。其次是进行反思性总结性评估，以描述 (i) 扩大参与 GEOL 的现有规范和实践在项目生命周期中如何演变，以及 (ii) 未来实施的准备程度。 -跟踪项目或类似活动。在项目实施期间，GEOL 教职人员和其他地球科学单位的教职人员将通过参与两个专业发展计划而受到影响，所有地球科学研究生也将通过参与规划和/或参与指导活动、招聘活动而受到影响此外，所有 GEOL 教职员工都将受到研究生参与项目活动的影响，该项目将成为教职员工和研究生之间围绕扩大地球科学参与进行公开讨论和协同互动的工具。该项目还预计将预计还会影响其他地球科学单位的约 10 名教职人员和约 50 名研究生；以及约 10 个当地政府机构、私营企业和非营利组织。 CUB 的地球科学家将与当地社区成员建立联系并发展关系，并建立伙伴关系，从而开展相互启发的社区研究，从而有助于解决气候变化带来的复杂环境和社会挑战。 -追踪该项目旨在为 CUB 的地球科学家在未来开展 CTGC 实施轨道项目或 NSF 的法定使命奠定基础，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，该项目被认为值得支持。