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ADVANCEGeo collaboration with FieldSAFE

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500

A collaboration of scientists from six organizations, including the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas, has received a $1.16 million grant from the National Science Foundation to implement and study the effects of a field safety, anti-harassment and bystander intervention training certificate program. FieldSafe is a continuation of a field safety training collaboration between the NSF-funded ADVANCEGeo partnership and CIRES. In addition to Gold, Hastings, and Schneider, FieldSafe co-PIs include scientists and researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, California State University in Los Angeles and New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

ADVANCEGeo workshop contributes to efforts to reduce sexism and harassment in wildlife science

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500

ADVANCEGeo workshop is recognized in this press release from The Wildlife Society about award given to a UW-Madison graduate student, Jennifer Merems, on her efforts to address sexism and harassment in her field. Congratulations, Jen, soon to be Dr. Merems!

Collaboration with FieldSafe highlighted

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500

FieldSafe has linked up with AdvanceGeo Partnership, an initiative housed at Carleton College, that aims to make the geosciences more inclusive, to offer a bystander intervention course as part of its training.

Refining Anti-racist Conversations

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500

ADVANCEGeo partners with URGE (Unlearning Racism in Geoscience) and the Geological Society of America to co-sponsor a webinar on Refining Anti-racist Conversations with Drs. Ann Marie Garran and Lisa Werkmeister Rozas on June 28th.

CUAHSI features ADVANCEGeo work

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500

CUAHSI is a leader in open science and open data, hosting HydroShare, hydrology lectures and short courses; providing countless resources to early career researchers including small grants and virtual panels on navigating life as a scientist. These resources were built in response to our community's needs. Similarly, we created the ADVANCEGeo Partnership in response to the need to address the lack of diversity across the earth sciences...

How geoscientists are making their field more welcoming

Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Article in Nature published 15 May 2023 features findings from our workplace climate survey and interviews PI Erika Marin-Spiotta on ADVANCEGeo work and former co-PI Asmeret Asefaw Berhe for work with Department of Energy.

UW Geography news article on our two workplace climate papers

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500

UW MadGeog News featured PhD student Emily Diaz-Vallejo and Erika Marin-Spiotta's co-authorship on two collaborative workplace climate survey papers.

KU press release on geoscience climate survey

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500

"The results validate our argument that you can't just throw all your resources toward recruitment, which is where the majority of previous diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have focused," said Blair Schneider, Kansas Geological Survey science outreach manager and associate researcher.

Schneider is co-principal investigator on the National Science Foundation-funded ADVANCEGeo Partnership, which conducted the research. The ADVANCEGeo Partnership includes scientists from the KGS and seven other institutions for research focused on reducing hostile workplace climate barriers in the geosciences.

Nature Geoscience journal features our research

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600

Results from a recently published survey of geoscientists reveal that many are facing pervasive discrimination and hostile working conditions.

Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600

Hostile workplaces undermine efforts to make the ecological sciences more inclusive and welcoming. A new study surveyed ecologists to provide a snapshot of workplace experiences. The bottom line is that identity matters. While workplace climates are positive overall, hostile and exclusionary behaviors still occur surprisingly often and disproportionately affect people who have been historically excluded from the field. The results were published this week in the journal "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment."