Implementation grant: Community Resilience integrated into an Earth System Science Learning Ecosystem (CRESSLE)

实施补助金：将社区复原力纳入地球系统科学学习生态系统（CRESSLE）

• 批准号: 2228205
• 负责人: Jay Banner
• 金额: $ 705.73万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228205&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; grant; Community; Resilience; integrated

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Project CRESSLE, Community Resilience integrated into an Earth System Science Learning Ecosystem, will partner University of Texas (UT) geoscience researchers and community members to create a learning environment that is welcoming to marginalized and minoritized (MMG) researchers, community members, and students while supporting close collaboration on research using Earth System Science in service of communities. This ecosystem integrates theory and successful practice with four integrated strategies: 1) Discovery Research, to assess assets and needs in both MMG communities and UT geoscientists, 2) a Community of Practice, joining UT and MMG communities in cohorts to address issues around three research themes (Water Resources, Climate Resilience, and Communities & Landscapes), 3) advancement of the successful Scientist in Residence program to train and inspire early career researchers, and 4) development of Informal Geoscience Learning experiences co-designed by the cohorts. These four strategies will build a rigorous and inclusive Participatory Research (PR) program facilitated by the Community of Practice that will co-design and co-produce research to address community resilience and sustainability challenges, centered on Environmental Justice. Project leaders apply a PR approach to long-standing institutional, cultural, and scientific challenges to the resilience and sustainability of communities facing impacts on the natural resources of water, climate, and landscapes. Based on the successes of PR in other disciplines, CRESSLE will test the idea that PR integrating the four strategies and applying geoscience to address environmental resilience can produce four key outcomes: 1) increase engagement of MMG persons in geoscience careers; 2) increase research productivity and career pathways for early career geoscientists; 3) produce enduring university-community partnerships, and 4) help understand environmental justice problems and potential solutions on the neighborhood scale.A long history of racially-biased institutional and cultural actions on national scales has led to underrepresentation of MMG groups in the discipline of geoscience/Earth System Science. Over the same period, a history of racially-biased community and city planning in Austin, TX led to the segregation of MMG groups into neighborhoods that have been subject to disproportionate environmental impacts. Project leaders argue that CRESSLE will transform the culture of the geoscience community and advance MMG communities’ ability to address resilience issues using geoscience by increasing the diversity of the geoscience workforce, building university-MMG community connections, and advancing methods for PR and informal geoscience learning experiences that engage and transform the STEM discipline of geoscience. Project leaders will develop a best practices model that will be disseminated locally and nationally and support career development of early-career MMG researchers through PR opportunities, professional development training, and mentoring. The goals of the career development and dissemination plan are to: 1) expand the implementation of the innovative approach to enhance engagement of MMG communities in geoscience PR, 2) gain institutional and community endorsement and private/corporate support for sustaining efforts beyond NSF support; and 3) ‘normalize’ CRESSLE activities as a step towards transforming the culture of the geoscience community.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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金来源于《2021 年美国救援计划法案》（公法 117-2）。CRESSLE 项目（将社区复原力融入地球系统科学学习生态系统）将与德克萨斯大学 (UT) 地球科学研究人员和社区成员创造一个欢迎边缘化和少数群体（MMG）研究人员、社区成员和学生的学习环境，同时支持利用地球系统科学为社区服务的研究密切合作。该生态系统将理论和成功实践与社区相结合。四个综合战略：1) 发现研究，评估 MMG 社区和 UT 地球科学家的资产和需求，2) 实践社区，将 UT 和 MMG 社区联合起来，解决围绕三个研究主题（水资源、气候恢复力、和社区与景观），3）成功推进驻场科学家计划，以培训和激励早期职业研究人员，4）开发由团队共同设计的非正式地球科学学习体验。这四项战略将建立一个由实践社区推动的严格且包容的参与性研究 (PR) 计划，该计划将共同设计和共同开展研究，以解决社区复原力和可持续性挑战，以环境正义项目领导者应用 PR 方法为中心。针对面临水、气候和景观等自然资源影响的社区的恢复力和可持续性所面临的长期制度、文化和科学挑战，基于公共关系在其他学科中的成功，CRESSLE 将测试公共关系整合的想法。四大战略以及应用地球科学解决环境复原力问题可以产生四个关键成果：1) 增加 MMG 人员对地球科学职业的参与；2) 提高早期职业地球科学家的研究生产力和职业道路；3) 建立持久的大学与社区伙伴关系；4) 帮助理解环境正义问题。国家范围内种族偏见的制度和文化行为的悠久历史导致了 MMG 群体在地球科学/地球系统科学学科中的代表性不足。德克萨斯州奥斯汀的种族偏见社区和城市规划导致 MMG 群体被隔离到遭受不成比例的环境影响的社区中。 项目负责人认为，CRESSLE 将改变地球科学社区的文化，并提高 MMG 社区解决问题的能力。通过增加地球科学劳动力的多样性、建立大学与 MMG 社区的联系以及推进公关和非正式地球科学学习经验的方法，利用地球科学解决复原力问题。项目领导者将开发一个最佳实践模型，该模型将促进地球科学的 STEM 学科的发展。是在当地和全国范围内传播，并通过公关机会、专业发展培训和指导支持早期职业 MMG 研究人员的职业发展。职业发展和传播计划的目标是：1）扩大创新方法的实施，以提高参与度。 MMG 地球科学社区的公关，2) 获得机构和社区的认可以及私人/企业的支持，以维持 NSF 支持之外的努力；3) 将 CRESSLE 活动“正常化”，作为转变地球科学社区文化的一步。授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。