ED21A:
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in Geosciences I: Gender Issues and Solutions


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Session ID#: 59270

Session Description:
In recent years the large global geosciences unions (e.g., AGU, EGU, JpGU) have been increasingly promoting and supporting diversity, inclusion and equality in geosciences. In this session we will invite presentations on remaining challenges, new ideas, or successful concepts that improve or maintain diversity, inclusion and equality. Example topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Diversity data within geosciences communities
  • Mentoring programs
  • Role models
  • Representation of minorities
  • Examples of solutions
  • Best practices and successful strategies

For this session, we aim to schedule 5-8min presentations and use the remaining time to synthesize the contribution and discuss challenges and ways forward.

Primary Convener:  Tim H M van Emmerik, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Conveners:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Jill L Karsten, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences (Retired), Arlington, VA, United States and Claudia Jesus-Rydin, European Research Council, Scientific Department, Brussels, Belgium
Primary Liaison:  Tim H M van Emmerik, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Chairs:  Jill L Karsten, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences (Retired), Arlington, VA, United States, Tim H M van Emmerik, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands and Michael Guidry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Global Environmental Science Program, Honolulu, HI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Co-Organized with:
Education, and Public Affairs

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • PA - Public Affairs

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
6630 Workforce [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Heather L Ford, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cameron Brick, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Karine S Blaufuss, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Petra Dekens, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
Blair Schneider, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, United States, Rebecca Barnes, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, United States, Asmeret Asefaw Asefaw Berhe, University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, Meredith Galanter Hastings, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Allison Mattheis, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Billy M Williams, American Geophysical Union, Executive Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Science, Washington, DC, United States and Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, United States
Aude Vincent, Ensegid, Pessac, France
Tania G Villaseñor, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Santiago, Chile, Juan Pablo Queupil, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Centro de Investigación para la Educación Inclusiva, Valparaiso, Chile, Luisa Pinto, Universidad de Chile, Geología, Santiago, Chile and Maisa Rojas, Universidad de Chile, Department of Geophysics, Santiago, Chile
Milena Marjanovic, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Ilaria Meggetto, EAGE, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amandine Caillot, WGE EAGE, Madrid, Spain, Katie Bernard, CEPSA, Madrid, Spain, Jennifer McKinley, Queen's University Belfast, School of Natural and Built Environment, Belfast, United Kingdom and Fargana Exton, Schlumberger, Perth, Australia
Sonya Legg, Center for Ocean Leadership at UCAR, Boulder, United States, Colleen B Mouw, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, Sarah Clem, Duke University, Durham, United States and Jean Stockard, University of Oregon, Eugene, United States
Lisa Wingate, INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris Cedex 07, France
Katherine Casey, Chemonics International, Inc, Washington, United States; SERVIR Support Activity, Washington, DC, United States, HA Nguyen, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok, Thailand; SERVIR - Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, Pranita Bhushan Udas, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal; SERVIR - Hindu Kush Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, Mariama Nouhou Koutcha, AGRHYMET Regional Center, Niamey, Niger; SERVIR - West Africa, Niamey, Niger, Emily Caitlin Adams, SERVIR NASA Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States; University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Sciences Center, Huntsville, United States, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States and Rebekke Muench, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States; SERVIR NASA Science Coordination Office, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Melanie Gerault1, Alice Adenis2, Maelis Arnould3, Marie Bocher4, Claire Mallard5, Nicolas Coltice6 and Martina Ulvrova4, (1)MIT, Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, Cambridge, United States, (2)LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, (3)Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, France, (4)ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, (5)University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (6)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France
Michelle Tigchelaar, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Marena Lin, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Cristian Proistosescu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States and Lisa Xu, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, United States

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