ED002
Actions and Perspectives on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Earth and Space Sciences

Session ID#: 83227

Session Description:
The large global geoscience societies (e.g., AGU, EGU, JpGU) have increasingly been promoting and supporting diversity, inclusion, and equity in the Earth and Space sciences with varying degrees of success. This session will focus on remaining challenges, new ideas, or successful approaches for advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity in the geosciences.

Example topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Examples of successful high impact practices
  • The role of mentoring programs
  • Recognising and promoting role models
  • Gathering reliable longitudinal data to benchmark progress
  • Enabling greater participation of researchers from low to middle income countries
  • Use of community science and traditional knowledge to bridge underrepresented communities and the geosciences.

For this session, we aim to schedule 5-8 min presentations and then use the remaining time to synthesize contributions and discuss challenges and ways forward. In the centenary year of AGU, this is particularly relevant as we look towards the next 100 years.

Co-Organized:
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EGU: European Geosciences Union -
Index Terms:

0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
1974 Social networks [INFORMATICS]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]
6630 Workforce [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Conveners:  Sarah Ramdeen, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Westminster, CO, United States, Petra Dekens, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States and Corey Garza, California State University Monterey Bay, School Of Natural Sciences, Seaside, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
 
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Lisa D White, University of California Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, United States and Sharon K Cooper, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
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