Program Partners
Become a Program PartnerEarthConnections Program Partners bring a wealth of expertise, programming or resources that can assist you in creating your regional pathway. All are committed to the Earth Connections Alliance and the EarthConnections pathway model. As described below bring deep expertise in one or more pathway elements. They are excited to talk with you about their programming and how it might be incorporated in your pathway. Some collaborations will require funding.
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Program Components
Geographic Scale
Audience
- Community/General Public 15 matches
- K-12 Students 22 matches
- Pre-Service K-12 Faculty 19 matches
- In-Service K-12 Faculty 22 matches
- First Generation College Students 5 matches
- Underrepresented Minority Students 14 matches
- Undergraduate Students 14 matches
- Graduate Students 3 matches
- Undergraduate Faculty 27 matches
- Graduate Faculty 11 matches
- College/University Staff and Administration 8 matches
- Researchers 8 matches
Results 1 - 10 of 35 matches
International Association for Geoscience Diversity (IAGD)
The IAGD is a global network of higher education faculty, staff and students, geoscience industry representatives, disabilities education researchers and anyone interested in fostering accessible science. Our goal is to provide training and support to promote inclusive communities of research, instruction, and active engagement for students, faculty, and geoscience practitioners with disabilities. The IAGD has led the development and implementation of accessible and inclusively-designed classroom and field-based instructional strategies that minimize the barriers to full participation for persons with disabilities.
LabX by the National Academy of Sciences
LabX facilitates Extreme Event, an in-person role-playing game in which players work together to make decisions and solve problems during an engaging, fast-paced natural disaster simulation. The game is used to build community resilience, tying together disparate groups and segments who might otherwise not engage with one another.
University of Texas El Paso Geological Sciences Department
We have had a number of National Science Foundation grants that target underserved students, from K-12, undergraduates here and in community college, to graduate students. We believe this strength can serve as a foundation to help build a southwest geoscience alliance that is aligned with the larger INCLUDES mission.
Geoscience Alliance
The Geoscience Alliance is a network of faculty and students from tribal colleges and universities, other universities and colleges, federal agencies, and other interested participants. The strength of our network is our ability to reach out to this group and support their inclusion in other efforts.
GeoCAT
The GeoCAT (Geoscience Career Ambassador Training) project is focused on introducing and familiarizing educators (teachers, advisors, 4-H volunteers) of Minority Serving Institutions/counties in Kansas with various career opportunities of Geosciences. The project is in partnership with the K-State Geology advisory Council.
National Girls Collaborative Project
The vision of the NGCP is to bring together organizations throughout the United States that are committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The goals of NGCP are to maximize access to shared resources within projects, and with public and private sector organizations and institutions interested in expanding girls' participation in STEM.
NCAR/UCAR
NCAR/UCAR is interested in being a program partner and would represent the atmospheric sciences in this effort. NCAR E&O can lend its expertise in faculty support, graduate student and postdoc support and general diversity work. Rising Voices program facilitates cross-cultural approaches for adaptation solutions to extreme weather and climate events, climate variability and climate change. SOARS' expertise is in student pathways and mentoring, as well as support of early-career faculty from diverse backgrounds through the Sparks for Change program.
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
SCEC coordinates research on earthquake science at more than 70 research institutions nationwide. SCEC leads California's Earthquake Country Alliance (ECA), a public-private partnership that created the Great California ShakeOut. With support from FEMA, SCEC has expanded ShakeOut across the country and worldwide (43.5 million participants in 2015). SCEC/ECA coordinate the EPIcenter (Education and Public Information Center) Network of museums, parks, and other venues that host ShakeOut activities, develop educational materials, and share best practices. SCEC also provides educator professional development, installs Quake Catcher Network (QCN) sensors in schools and museums, develops curricular resources, and coordinates two undergraduate intern programs with more than 30 students each summer.
AAAS STEM Volunteer Program
Our program has over a decade of experience recruiting and supporting STEM professionals as volunteers in DC area schools. We can provide guidance to regional alliances seeking to use STEM experts in the community to advance their efforts in schools and out-of-school settings.
International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) (U.S. Office)
IODP is the scientific ocean drilling program - we have numerous resources for geoscience data, samples, education and outreach materials, and people to do outreach programming into classrooms or informal science settings. We are a national program and would be able to provide these resources to all regional alliances.