ED43A:
Geoscience Workforce Issues: Demography, Gender, and Diversity II Posters

Session ID#: 5055

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Dallas D Rhodes, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, United States; Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States and Chris Keane, American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, VA, United States
Primary Convener:  Dallas D Rhodes, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, United States; Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States
Co-Convener:  Chris Keane, American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, VA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
6630 Workforce [PUBLIC ISSUES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
ED43A-3456
Demographic Change in the American Geophysical Union's United States Membership, 2006-2014 (20061)
Dallas D Rhodes, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States
 
ED43A-3457
Highlights from the First Ever Demographic Study of Solar Physics, Space Physics, and Upper Atmospheric Physics (10194)
Mark B Moldwin1, Cherilynn Ann Morrow2, Susan C White3 and Rachel Ivie3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Aspen Global Change Institute, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)American Institute of Physics, Statistical Research Center, College Park, MD, United States
 
ED43A-3458
GeoFORCE Texas: An Outreach Program that is Increasing the Number and Diversity of Students Completing STEM Degrees and Entering the Workforce (13130)
Eleanour Snow, Univ of TX-Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Samuel L Moore, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
ED43A-3459
Extending the Pathway: Building on a National Science Foundation Workforce Development Project for Underserved k-12 Students (15447)
William Slattery, Wright State University Main Campus, Dayton, OH, United States and Thomas Smith, Ripley Union Lewis Huntington High School, Ripley, OH, United States
 
ED43A-3460
Increasing the Overall Quality and the Number of Women and Hispanic Geoscientists for the Workforce: Rebuilding an Undergraduate Program (26113)
Mark T Ford and Thomas L McGehee, Texas A & M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, United States
 
ED43A-3461
GENDER IN THE GEOSCIENCES: FACTORS SUPPORTING THE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF WOMEN IN THE UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR (29216)
Eric M Riggs1, Julie Sexton2, Kevin Pugh3, Cassendra Bergstrom4, Rhonda Parmley5 and Dr. Michael Phillips, PhD3, (1)Texas A&M University, College of Geosciences, College Station, TX, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Studies, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Northern Colorado, School of Psychological Sciences, Greeley, CO, United States, (4)University of Northern Colorado, Mathematics and Science Teaching Institute, Greeley, CO, United States, (5)Quaternia Services, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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