Talking the talk AND walking the walk: UMass Geosciences’ community-based efforts to increase diversity and inclusivity through improved department climate


Sarah Virginia McKnight1, Marsha Allen2, Isla S. Castañeda3, Julie Brigham-Grette3, Michele L Cooke4, Piper Gaubatz1, Helen Habicht5, Benjamin Andrew Keisling6, Adriane Renee Lam7, Mary Richards1, Jeff M Salacup8, Nick Scroxton9, Donald Sluter and Kaitlyn Suarez11, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Earth, Geographic and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States, (5)UMass Amherst-Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (6)University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (7)Binghamton University, Department of Earth Sciences, Binghamton, United States, (8)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States, (9)National University of Ireland Maynooth, Kildare, United Kingdom, (10)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States