ED23B:
Diversity in the Geoscience Community: Expansion is Necessary I Posters
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Session ID#: 26115
Session Description:
The geosciences continue to lag other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in the engagement, recruitment and retention of traditionally underrepresented and underserved minorities. Diversity is a vital priority because it promotes innovation, strengthens the community's ability to tackle complex geoscience problems, and engenders widespread Earth science literacy. Recent attention and funding have been dedicated to improving undergraduate and graduate STEM education, including an emphasis on diversifying the geoscience community. NSF’s INCLUDES, GOLD and IUSE:GEOPATHS solicitations attest to the commitment. Nonetheless recent studies suggest there is room for progress; in 2014 African Americans and Hispanics earned fewer than 4% of all of the PhD in the geosciences (Sidder, Eos, 2017). The lack of diversity in the professoriate likely contributes to comparable shortfalls in the geosciences overall. This session aims to provide a platform to share experiences, best practices and challenges in approaches to diversifying the geosciences.
Primary Convener: Jonathan C Lewis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences, Indiana, PA, United States
Conveners: Sharon K Cooper, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Brandon Jones, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, United States
Chairs: Brandon Jones, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, United States and Sharon K Cooper, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison: Jonathan C Lewis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences, Indiana, PA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
David Baratoux, IRD, Geosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France; Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Check Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, Hasnaa Chennaoui-Aoudjehane, Géosciences Appliquées à l’Ingénierie de l’Aménagement GAIA Laboratory, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock, Department of Geology, Casablanca, Morocco, Roger Gibson, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences, Johannesburg, South Africa, Atmane Lamali, Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique et Géophysique, Geophysics, Algiers, Algeria, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil, Maria Selorm Sepah, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Mouley Charaf Chabou, Université Ferhat Abbas, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Setif, Algeria, John Bosco Habarulema, Rhodes University, Department of Physics and Electronics, Grahamstown, South Africa; South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa, Mark Jessell, The University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration Targeting (School of Earth Sciences), Crawley, WA, Australia, Aberra Mogessie, University of Graz, Institute of Earth Sciences,, Graz, Austria, Zouhair Benkhaldoun, Oukaimeden Observatory, Laboratory of High Energy Physics and Astrophysics, FSSM, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco, Elyvin Nkhonjera, Young Earth Scientists (YES) Network, Lilongwe, Malawi, Ndivhuwo Cecilia Mukosi, Council for Geoscience, Young Earth Scientists (YES), Pietersburg, South Africa, Maram Kaire, Association Senegalaise pour la Promotion de l’Astronomie, Dakar, Senegal, Pierre Rochette, CEREGE ARBOIS, Aix En Provence, France, Amanda Sickafoose, South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), Cape Town, South Africa, Jesús Martínez-Frías, Complutense university of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Alex Hofmann, University of Johannesburg, Geology, Johannesburg, South Africa, Luigi Folco, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Angelo Pio Rossi, Earthgraph GmbH, Bremen, Germany, Gayane Faye, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Dakar, Senegal, Katrien Kolenberg, University of Antwerp, Physics Department, Heverlee, Belgium, Kelali Tekle, East African Regional office of Astronomy for Development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Djelloul Belhai, Université des sciences et de la technologie Houari-Boumédiène,, Faculté des Sciences de la Terre, de la Géographie et Aménagement du Territoire (FSTGAT), Bab Ezzouar, Algeria, Meryem Elyajouri, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France, Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria and Mamdouh Abdeem, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
Gregory Dick and Jenna Munson, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Diedre Avon Lamb, University of Arizona, Disability Resource Center, Tucson, AZ, United States and Rick A Bennett, Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Michelle Berry1, Vashan Desmond Wright2, Katherine Kelly Ellins3, Mercy Grace Jackson Browder4, Rocio Castillo4, Alissa Kotowski5, Julie C Libarkin6, Johnny Lu5, Nishma Maredia5 and Nicole Butler5, (1)Brigham Resources, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States, (3)The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (4)Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Eleanor Ann Rappolee1, Julie C Libarkin2, Carmen McCallum3 and Sarah Kurz3, (1)USGS Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, United States
Ambrose Jearld Jr, Woods Hole Partnership Education Program, Falmouth, United States
Joshua Knackert, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Daniel D Cadol, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, Bonnie Frey, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States and Chelsea Chee, New Mexico EPSCoR State Office, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Diane Irene Doser, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, Arturo Olivarez, University of Texas at El Paso, Educational Leadership, El Paso, TX, United States, Robert Rohrbaugh, El Paso Community College, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States and Joshua I Villalobos, El Paso Community College, Geological Sciences Discipline, El Paso, TX, United States
