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.

Published:  2020 

Sherilynn Black, Ph.D., and Angela Byars-Winston, Ph.D., describe the value of cultural awareness in mentorship. They also review highlights from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on effective mentorship and discuss resources on culturally aware mentorship for mentors and mentees. Learn more about how NIGMS supports mentorship through the National Research Mentoring Network

Authors:  National Institute of General Medical Sciences 

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Published:  2020 

Geoscience graduate programs are increasingly abandoning the controversial test as an admissions requirement, a welcome development for equity and inclusion in the field. How can your school be next?

Authors:  S. H. Ledford, M. M. Monteagudo, A. N. Flores, J. B. Glass, K. M. Cobb 

Published:  2020 

By analyzing data from nearly all US PhD recipients and their dissertations across three decades, this paper finds demographically underrepresented students innovate at higher rates than majority students, but their novel contributions are discounted and less likely to earn them academic positions. The discounting of minorities’ innovations may partly explain their underrepresentation in influential positions of academia.

Authors:  Bas Hofstra|Vivek V. Kulkarni|Sebastian Munoz-Najar Galvez|Daniel A. McFarland 

Published:  2019 

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

Authors:  LTER Network Office, LTER Broadening Participation Committee 

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Published:  2019 

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.

Authors:  Aara'L Yarber 

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Published:  2019 

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

Authors:  MCR personnel 

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Published:  2019 

The INTERACT Fieldwork Planning Handbook covers all aspects of fieldwork, from the initial idea, to the actual fieldwork, through to getting safely back home with samples and data to wrap up the project. A particular focus is put on all aspects of planning until you venture into the field and safety aspects when working at INTERACT stations or in the field.

Authors:  Fiona Tummon, Andrea Schneider, Julie Bull, Gwenaëlle Gremion, Gabriela Roldan, Morgan Seag, Ruth Vingerhagen Hindshaw 

Published:  2019 

It’s easy to get stuck in an endless whirl of grants and papers. Jeffrey McDonnell offers tips for becoming a leader in your field to ascend to the next professional level.

Authors:  Jeffrey McDonnell 

Published:  2019 

Researchers are urging universities across the United States to find a new way to identify the next generation of scientists. A new study discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics, which is already the least diverse of the sciences.

Authors:  Casey W. Miller|Benjamin M. Zwickl|Julie R. Posselt|Rachel T. Silvestrini|Theodore Hodapp 

Published:  2019 

A case for abandoning the GRE in the geosciences

Authors:  Jane Willenbring