This catalog of external and internal resources has been collected by the LNO staff and committees and continues to grow each month. Here you’ll find toolkits, references, reports, and videos. It can be filtered by topic, format, and primary audience.
Lessons from the APLU INCLUDES Project. The Association of Public and Land Grant Universities has compiled evidence of promising practices for recruiting and retaining faculty from underrepresented groups.
Creators: Jessica Bennett, Lisa Lattuca, Kacy Redd, Travis York
The article outlines tangible actions white academics can take to support Black colleagues and students.
Creators: Jasmine Roberts-Crews
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
This book provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of Black women.
Creators: Stephanie Y. Evans
An Inside Higher Education article about the exploitation of scholars through inequities in labor in academia (cultural taxation) for faculty of color and gives career advice centered on ways to minimize the burden.
Creators: Eric Joy Denise
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Jornada Basin LTER Code of Ethics including their code of conduct.
Creators: JRN personnel
Audience(s): manager, mentor, program facilitator, student
Audience(s): manager, mentor, program facilitator, student
The Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER site code of conduct.
Creators: MCR personnel
Audience(s): manager, mentor, program facilitator, student
Audience(s): manager, mentor, program facilitator, student
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.
Creators: Fabio Crameri, Grace E. Shephard, Philip J. Heron
Article from Inside Higher Education, which calls for faculty to rethink their inclusion and accessibility statements in their syllabi which points to several elements beyond the content to focus on.
Creators: Freya Möbus
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, mentor, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, mentor, scientific organization, student
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.
Creators: Aara'L Yarber
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
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.
Creators: Diversify EEB
Audience(s): academic institution, event organizer, manager, scientific organization
Audience(s): academic institution, event organizer, manager, scientific organization
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.
Creators: Hendratta N. Ali, Sarah L. Sheffield, Jennifer E. Bauer, et al.
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
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.
Creators: The Fieldwork Initiative
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
LTER Diversity Working Group report from the 2012 All Scientists Meeting.
Creators: LTER DEI committee
Audience(s): academic institution, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization
Audience(s): academic institution, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization
This LTER page includes a description of the Broadening Participation Committee’s function, activities, and membership.
Creators: LTER Network Office, LTER Broadening Participation Committee
Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.
Creators: Stacy Hawkins
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student