Search the Site

Microaggressions
This educational webpage from the ADVANCEGeo Partnership defines microaggressions as subtle, often unintentional, identity-based insults and exclusions, detailing their classification into microinsults, microinvalidations, and microassaults, with specific examples in STEM, research on their impact, and strategies for recognition and response, including bystander intervention techniques. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

What is Bias?
This educational webpage from the ADVANCEGeo Partnership defines bias—explicit and implicit—and explores its impact on self-perception (e.g., imposter syndrome, stereotype threat), its manifestations in science and the geosciences, and provides evidence-based research and resources to recognize and address systemic inequities in STEM fields. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Responding to Hostile Behaviors
This informational webpage from the ADVANCEGeo Partnership addresses strategies for responding to hostile behaviors in academic and professional settings, covering community and leadership responses, bystander intervention techniques (including the "5 Ds"), online harassment, and wellness resources for targets, while emphasizing the importance of cultural change, support systems, and institutional accountability in combating harassment and discrimination. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

What is Harassment, Bullying and Discrimination?
This educational webpage from the ADVANCEGeo Partnership defines harassment, bullying, and discrimination in academic and professional settings, citing AGU and EEOC policies, and presents research on their impacts, offering resources for creating equitable, inclusive geoscience workplaces. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

ADVANCEGeo Partnership
The primary goal of the ADVANCEGeo project is to improve work climate conditions by developing bystander intervention workshops for department heads, chairs, faculty and grad students to appropriately respond to and prevent sexual and other types of harassment on campus and in the field as well as include awareness and prevention training of harassment in the teaching of ethical conduct in research.

ADVANCEing FieldSafety
Content page from the ADVANCEGeo Partnership site detailing the ADVANCEing FieldSafety program, a collaborative initiative developing an online course and toolkit to promote safe, inclusive field research environments through risk assessment, bystander intervention, and anti-harassment planning, aligned with NSF requirements. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Schedule at a Glance
A workshop schedule page detailing the two-day ADVANCEGeo Train the Trainers event from January 9–10, 2020, including session topics such as Trauma Informed Response, Hostile Workplace Climate training, pedagogy discussions, and breakout electives on codes of conduct and fieldwork considerations, with meal and logistical information. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Jane Willenbring
Associate Professor, University of California-San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Blair Schneider
, University of Kansas Main Campus, Kansas Geological Survey