Broadening Participation Committee

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

This LTER page includes a description of the Broadening Participation Committee’s function, activities, and membership.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

The Fieldwork Initiative

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

The Fieldwork Initiative is a grassroots network of over 3,500 students and researchers facing trauma, unsafe conditions, or sexual harassment and assault during research fieldwork. The Fieldwork Initiative seeks to maintain a network for victims who have struggled with gendered violence while conducting research and to proliferate pre-fieldwork training seminars that break open the blackbox of data collection.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

An actionable anti-racism plan for geoscience organizations

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

This paper presents a twenty-point anti-racism plan that organizations can implement to build an inclusive, equitable and accessible geoscience community. Enacting it will combat racism, discrimination, and the harassment of all members.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

Diversify EEB

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Diversify Ecology and Evolutionary Biology seeks to identify ecologists and evolutionary biologists who are women and/or from a group traditionally underrepresented in the sciences (e.g., those from racial or ethnic minorities, those with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTQIA). The group’s goal is to help people identify scientists who might diversify seminar series, award nominees, etc. A companion list at diversify EEB grads focuses on PhD students.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

What is Bias

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This page defines bias (explicit and implicit) microaggressions, and then aggregates resources on bias in sciences general and geosciences specifically. The page also shares resources on how implicit bias affects self-perception.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

The misuse of colour in science communication

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This publication details how commonly used color maps distort perception for all readers and how they may make visualizations unreadable or misleading for those with color vision deficiencies. The artilce includes recommendations for improved color mappings.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

MCR Code Conduct

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The Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER site code of conduct.

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Jornada Basin LTER Code of Ethics

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

Jornada Basin LTER Code of Ethics including their code of conduct.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.