ED22B:
Diversity in the Geoscience Community: Expansion Is Necessary lll

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Session ID#: 34531

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
Index Terms:

0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
6630 Workforce [PUBLIC ISSUES]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Bringing cutting-edge Earth and ocean sciences to under-served and rural audiences through informal science education (274229)
Sharon K Cooper, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Katerina E Petronotis, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, Carrie Ferraro, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States, Kevin T M Johnson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Kristen Yarincik, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, DC, United States
Doctoral Programs Need Changes to Attract and Retain Underrepresented Groups (Invited) (212744)
Rachel E Bernard, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, United States and Kerrita Kimberly Mayfield, Organization Not Listed, Holyoke, MA, United States
Graduate student driven efforts to increase diversity of department lecture series (297116)
Raquel Bryant, Wesleyan University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Middletown, CT, United States and Benjamin Andrew Keisling, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States
GOLD (GEO Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity): Building capacity for broadening participation in the Geosciences (274809)
Brandon Jones, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, United States, Lina C Patino, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States, Elizabeth Lynch Rom, National Science Foundation, GEO/OCE, Arlington, United States and Amanda Adams, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
ASPIRE: Active Societal Participation in Research and Education (261148)
Corey Garza, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Seattle, United States, Julia Parrish, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Lora Harris, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States, Julie Posselt, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States and Marco Hatch, Western Washington University, Bellingham, United States
Geoscience Diversity Experiential Simulations (GeoDES) Workshop Report (229386)
Heather R Houlton, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Jason Chen, College of William and Mary, Educational Psychology, Williamsburg, VA, United States, Brentt Brown, Mursion, San Francisco, CA, United States, Dena Samuels, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Women's & Ethnic Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, United States and Carolyn Brinkworth, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States

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