ED21C:
Diversity in the Geoscience Community: Expansion Is Necessary ll
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Session ID#: 34525
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:
Jonathan C Lewis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences, Indiana, PA, United States, Sharon K Cooper, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Steven A Hovan, Indiana Univ Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, United States, R Mark Mark Leckie, Univ Massachusetts, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States and Lisa D White, University of California Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, United States
Kerrita Kimberly Mayfield, Organization Not Listed, Holyoke, MA, United States
Heather Macdonald, College of William & Mary, Geology, Williamsburg, VA, United States, Cathryn Allen Manduca, Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, MN, United States, Rachel J Beane, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, United States, Diane Irene Doser, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, Sue Chaplin Ebanks, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA, United States, Jan Hodder, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, John Robert McDaris, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States and Carol J Ormand, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States
Sally F McGill1, Mark L Benthien2, Bryan Adriel Castillo1, Jeffrey Fitzsimmons3, Anna Foutz4, Daniel Keck5, Cathryn Allen Manduca6, Gabriela R Noriega2, Rajul Pandya7, J John John Taber8 and Bernadette Vargas5, (1)California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA, United States, (2)Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)California Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, Victorville, CA, United States, (4)Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States, (5)Etiwanda High School, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States, (6)Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, MN, United States, (7)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, (8)IRIS, Washington, DC, United States
Diana M Dalbotten, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Antony Berthelote, Salish Kootenai College, Hydrology, Pablo, United States and Nievita Bueno Bueno Watts, California State Polytechnic University Humboldt, Indian Natural Resources, Science & Engineering Program, Arcata, United States
Rebecca Freeman1, Justin Bathon2, Alan E Fryar3, Eva Lyon1 and Michael M. McGlue4, (1)University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States, (2)University of Kentucky, Educational Leadership Studies, Lexington, KY, United States, (3)University of Kentucky, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lexington, KY, United States, (4)University of Kentucky, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lexington, United States
Rick A Bennett, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Diedre Avon Lamb, University of Arizona, Disability Resource Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
