Postbaccalaureate and other non-traditional training programs play a vital role in broadening participation in the geosciences. These programs create meaningful opportunities for students who are navigating varied pathways into graduate school or the geoscience workforce—recognizing that career trajectories are rarely linear and that different individuals in different circumstances enter and move through the field in different ways and at different times.

We invite presentations from mentors, program staff, and participants in postbaccalaureate and other non-traditional training programs, including bridge programs, research fellowships, near-peer mentoring initiatives, and institutional partnerships. We welcome contributions addressing program design, mentoring models, community-building strategies, recruitment and retention, outcomes assessment, sustainability, and lessons learned from programs serving students across the undergraduate-to-graduate career continuum.​