ED052
The next generation of Geoscience leaders: contributions from graduate students and early career scientists

Session ID#: 77611

Session Description:
Early career scientist and graduate student-led efforts to close gaps in diversity, inclusion, equity, and access in the Geosciences transform our scientific landscape and provide enriching professional development experiences for the next generation of Geoscience leaders. Institutional support (e.g., funding agencies, colleges and universities, scientific organizations) of these efforts has a positive effect on the broader Geoscience community while also promoting the cultivation of effective leadership skills. We invite abstracts which highlight the work of graduate students, postdocs and early career scientists aimed at making academic spaces more supportive, diverse, inclusive, and equitable. This includes, but is not limited to, efforts to:

  • recruit, train, and retain students from underrepresented backgrounds,
  • document differential professional outcomes for scientists with marginalized identities,
  • and identify or dismantle systems of oppression that operate in academic contexts.

In addition, we invite contributions illuminating efforts to support, encourage, mentor, train and retain diverse early career geoscientists.

Index Terms:

0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
6630 Workforce [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Benjamin Andrew Keisling, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
Conveners:  Raquel Bryant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States and Rachel E Bernard, University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin Andrew Keisling, UMass Amherst-Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
 
R-Ladies Global: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the R Community (490269)
Sheila M. Saia, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States and R-Ladies Global, R-Ladies Global, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
Non-Foreboding Coding: Empowering Underrepresented Undergraduate Researchers through Leveraging R and GitHub in Conjunction with International Field Work. (495091)
Andrew Roderick Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geography, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Diego Riveros-Iregui, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
 
Wielding Disruption to Catalyze Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts in the Geosciences (Invited) (499926)
Darryl Reano, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
 
Reducing barriers for geoscientists with physical disabilities: A case study by scientists with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Invited) (502327)
Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Emily Armstrong, University of Glasgow, Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Jillian Freese, University of Rhode Island, Biological Sciences, Narragansett, RI, United States, Janine Krippner, Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program, Washington DC, DC, United States, Solveig Schilling, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geology, Amherst, United States, Jesse Shanahan, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, D.C., United States; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States and Circe Verba, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Research and Innovation Center, Albany, OR, United States
 
From sport to science: improving LGBT+ inclusivity within geoscience (516330)
Simon Clark, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom and James Lea, University of Liverpool, School of Environmental Sciences, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom
 
Teaching Across Cultures: American Indian Models for Global Diversity (518784)
Claire Cecelia McKinley, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Thomas L Crofoot, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, United States and Max Showalter, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Queers in STEM: Creating spaces for LGBTQIA2+ in STEM (543483)
Robert Nguyen Ulrich1, Hannah Friedman2, Hannah Marvin3, Matthew Voss2, Andrea O'Riordan4, Jeremy Engels5, Aanand Patel6, Justin Valliere7 and John Billingsley8, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Raising Visibility: Materials for LGBT+ Diversity and Inclusivity in STEM (544945)
Joseph Razzell Hollis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
When Mentee Becomes Mentor: Graduate Perspectives on Mentorship (548134)
Natasha Krell, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
BRiDGE: Enhancing lecture series with broader impacts and mentoring opportunities (598819)
Mariela Garcia Arredondo1, Kadambari Devarajan2, Carolyn Anderson3, Emily Bechtold2, Raquel Bryant4, Brooke Burrows1, Katherine Chacon-Vargas2, Elsa Cousins2, Adaeze Egwuatu1, Nadia Fernandez2, Nigel Allen Golden5, Srishti Kashyap6, Benjamin Andrew Keisling7, Sarah McCormick8 and RoseAnn Vik2, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences Division, Richland, WA, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Environmental Conservation, Amherst, MA, United States, (6)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Microbiology, Amherst, MA, United States, (7)UMass Amherst-Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (8)University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States
 
Student-led organizations as a mechanism for improving department culture (599180)
Joanmarie Del Vecchio1, Chloe Lane Stanton2, Troy M Ferland2, Gabriella Rossetto-Harris3, Julia C. Carr2, Perri Silverhart3, Allison Karp4, Benjamin Davis Barnes5, Elena Stiles3, Beth Ann Eberle3, Judi Sclafani3 and Elizabeth A Hajek6, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (6)Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
 
Race Talk: Ending the Conspiracy of Silence at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (604440)
Lorelei Curtin, Carly Peltier, Kailani Acosta and Kuheli Dutt, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Growing Healthy Labs: A Student-Run Workshop for Future Faculty on Creating Effective Research Environments (612713)
Christine Y. Chen and Rohini Shivamoggi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Inclusive Earth: Promoting Excellence through Diversity and Inclusion in the Earth Sciences (615205)
Monique Maria Holt1, Kevin Mendoza2, Gabriela St. Pierre3 and Jory Chapin Lerback1, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Geology & Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States
 
You Belong: Empowerment, Education, & Environment Program at Stanford Earth (621880)
Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Davila, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Audrey M. Yau, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences Office of Educational Affairs, Stanford, CA, United States and Lupe Carrillo, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences Office of Multicultural Affairs, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Geoscience Camp! Methods for Introducing Geosciences to Middle School Girls (623530)
Julia Cisneros, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Geology, Urbana, IL, United States and Aida Rosalia Guhlincozzi, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Geography and Geographic Information Science, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Beyond Title IX: understanding protections against racial and national-origin-based discrimination in Titles VI and VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (Invited) (625386)
Marena Lin, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
How the Wind and Waves of STEMSEAS Voyage towards a Diverse Scientific Experience (625902)
Yasmin Sharbaf, Wellesley College, Neuroscience, Wellesley, MA, United States, Alhasan K Alshaarbaf, University of St. Thomas, Biology, Houston, TX, United States and Benjamin Andrew Keisling, UMass Amherst-Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
 
ECoGSS: A student-led departmental symposium integrating research and critical discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (626094)
Carolyn Anderson, Mariela Garcia Arredondo, Ashleigh J Novak, Grace A Casselberry, Michael Roberts, Erin Coates-Connor, Nischal Neupane, Allison Gage, Donovan Drummey, Laura Hancock, Lian Guo and Beatriz Dias, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
 
Learning Outcomes of Field Experiences From the Perspective of Undergraduate Students (626211)
Michael Martins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Mathematics, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Kevin Huo, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Anthropology / Political Science, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
GeoLatinas (Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences) Contributing to Professional Development and Retention of Underrepresented Groups at Large (629336)
Frances Rivera-Hernandez, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, Rocio P Caballero-Gill, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States, Betina Brockamp, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States, Adriana Crisostomo-Figueroa, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Clairet Guerra, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, Yalimay Jimenez, Homeward Bound Project, Perth, Australia, Catalina Llano-Ocampo, Schlumberger Houston, Houston, United States, Isadora Macedo, Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Priscilla Nowajewski B., The Mars Society Chile, Valparaíso, Chile
 
Participation In Science Oriented Programs Facilitates Undergraduate Learning and Future Success in Research (633608)
Anjali Malati Khisty, Spring, TX, United States and Benjamin Andrew Keisling, UMass Amherst-Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
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