<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="times new roman, serif">Good morning, </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="times new roman, serif">I thought I would share this excellent <a href="https://eos.org/articles/seven-ways-pis-can-counteract-systematic-bias-right-now" target="_blank">article in EOS</a> with you. Our colleague <a href="https://geography.wisc.edu/profile.php?p=22" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none">Erika Marín-Spiotta</a>, a biogeochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, served as an independent reviewer of the work, and said it’s “a must-read for those leading lab, classroom and field activities and who therefore have the responsibility to build and ensure safe, equitable, just, and inclusive environments.”</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.67em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">Seven Ways PIs Can Counteract Systematic Bias Right Now</font></h1><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">Principal investigators are the monarchs of their science kingdoms. Here are seven things they can do for the betterment of the realm—ehrm, lab group</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit"><font size="4">By<b> </b></font></span><span style="font-weight:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;margin:0px 1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://eos.org/author/j-duncombe" title="Posts by Jenessa Duncombe" rel="author" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(26,26,26);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Jenessa Duncombe</a></span><span style="font-weight:600;font-size:1.5rem;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;speak:none;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;font-weight:inherit;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1"></span><span style="font-weight:inherit"> 3 hours ago</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">The geosciences have a problem with diversity, equity, and inclusion. In the past 40 years, the number of racial and ethnic minorities in the field <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0116-6" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">hasn’t risen</a>, and the geosciences are the least racially diverse field in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">When a worldwide call for racial justice in 2020 <a href="https://eos.org/articles/geoscience-commits-to-racial-justice-now-weve-got-work-to-do" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">resonated into the halls, labs, and fields</a> of geoscientists, postdoc <a href="https://people.llnl.gov/chen127" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Christine Y. Chen</a> saw departments discussing strategic plans and systematic changes. “But there was also so much low-hanging fruit that could be implemented immediately to reduce harm happening to our most marginalized community members right now.”</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">Chen wrote a <a href="https://www.essoar.org/doi/10.1002/essoar.10506277.1" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">practical guide</a> to be published in <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">AGU Advances</em> for principal investigators (PIs) to immediately enact change. The paper discusses actions leaders can take in the classroom, field, and lab and applies to any leader in science, including teaching assistants, lab technicians, and field organizers. These actions focus on how individuals can enact change in their spheres of influence.</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif"><a href="https://geography.wisc.edu/profile.php?p=22" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Erika Marín-Spiotta</a>, a biogeochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who served as an independent reviewer of the work, said it’s “a must-read for those leading lab, classroom and field activities and who therefore have the responsibility to build and ensure safe, equitable, just, and inclusive environments.”</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">Here are seven takeaways from the paper.</font></p><h3 style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-size:2.5rem;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">1. Normalize talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion in scientific settings.</font></span></span></h3><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">“I had to hide the fact that I was doing any kind of <a href="https://eos.org/articles/teaching-geoscience-history-in-context" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">work related to diversity, equity, and inclusion</a> because it was seen as an activity that would take away from my primary science,” said Chen of her past research.</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"></p><font face="times new roman, serif">“That discomfort is part of the growth.”</font><font face="times new roman, serif">PIs can encourage discourse in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by talking openly about their own work in that space or <a href="https://eos.org/topics/diversity-equity-inclusion" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">articles they read about DEI</a>. They can also organize a weekly seminar, like coauthor and assistant professor <a href="https://earth.usc.edu/cooperdock/" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Emily H. G. Cooperdock</a> has done at the University of Southern California.</font><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">Scared to talk about it? Know that you’re not alone. “It’s not like there’s a group of us for whom it is not uncomfortable,” said Cooperdock. “That discomfort is part of the growth.”</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">Training in bystander intervention and conflict mitigation can help too.</font></p><h3 style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-size:2.5rem;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">2. Write fair and balanced reference letters.</font></span></span></h3><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"></p><font face="times new roman, serif">“Faculty and PIs have the power to change the trajectory of their trainee’s career path.”</font><font face="times new roman, serif">Follow guides for reducing <a href="https://csw.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/avoiding_gender_bias_in_letter_of_reference_writing.pdf" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">gender bias</a> and <a href="https://www.montana.edu/lachowieclab/dei/ref_letter_racial_bias.html" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">racial bias</a> when writing reference letters. And remember to watch for biased language when reading reference letters, too.</font><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">“There are actual social science studies to support that there are racial and gender bias introduced into letter writing,” Chen explained. It’s “one specific example of where faculty and PIs have the power to change the trajectory of their trainee’s career path.”</font></p><h3 style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-size:2.5rem;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">3. Design your class field trips to be universally accessible.</font></span></span></h3><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif"><a href="https://eos.org/opinions/creating-spaces-for-geoscientists-with-disabilities-to-thrive" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Create spaces for geoscientists with disabilities</a> in class field trips. COVID-19 was a crash course in <a href="https://eos.org/features/accessibility-and-fieldwork-in-the-time-of-coronavirus" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">flexible course design</a>, and the <a href="https://theiagd.org/" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">International Association for Geoscience Diversity</a> is a great resource to keep the juices flowing.</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">Remember financial barriers, too.</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">Offer a gear-sharing locker so that first timers in the field can afford it. Consider dedicating a lecture to field basics: clothing, layering, tents, bathrooms, menstruation, hydration, etc. Chen lectured her sedimentology class about this and got great class reviews, she said.</font></p><h3 style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-size:2.5rem;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">4. Write safety plans for the field.</font></span></span></h3><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">People who are nonwhite, LGBTQ+, disabled, and members of gender minorities and other minoritized groups face dangers in the field. PIs can help make them safer by implementing these <a href="https://eos.org/opinions/ten-steps-to-protect-bipoc-scholars-in-the-field" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">10 steps to protect BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) scholars in the field</a>. Remember the <a href="https://eos.org/features/the-challenges-of-fieldwork-for-lgbtq-geoscientists" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">challenges that LGBTQ+ scientists</a> face in the field, too.</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">Use that information to write safety plans that include not only emergency medicine, supplies, and weather precautions but also field <a href="https://serc.carleton.edu/advancegeo/resources/field_work.html" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">inclusivity, accessibility, and procedures for misconduct.</a></font></p><h3 style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-size:2.5rem;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">5. Partner with local communities.</font></span></span></h3><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">Examples of <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-bears-fingerprints-colonialism-180968709/" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">scientific imperialism</a> are common, like the phenomenon of many <a href="https://eos.org/articles/why-arent-there-more-journal-papers-by-african-geoscientists" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Africa-focused geoscience papers being written by non-African scientists</a>. Scientists must break out of the colonial mold.</font></p><font face="times new roman, serif">“We asked them specifically what Indigenous environmental knowledge they felt was most important.”</font><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif"><a href="https://nni.arizona.edu/people/staff/dominique-m-david-chavez-phd-arawak-taino" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Dominique M. David-Chavez</a> <a href="https://eos.org/articles/keeping-indigenous-science-knowledge-out-of-a-colonial-mold" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">explained</a> how she avoided this pattern in her doctoral research studying her Indigenous community’s climate knowledge. She first met with community elders and leaders in the Cidra and Comerío municipalities in Puerto Rico. “We asked them specifically what Indigenous environmental knowledge they felt was most important for the youth and future generations to learn about.”</font></p><h3 style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-size:2.5rem;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">6. Feature scientists from many backgrounds in the classroom.</font></span></span></h3><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br>Try featuring careers and real-life scientists in lectures. One <a href="https://eos.org/features/the-two-year-on-ramp" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">community college professor</a> did that in Texas at the end of each class.</font><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">Don’t know where to look for scientists from diverse backgrounds? Check out the profiles on the <a href="https://www.diversegeologists.org/blog" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Diverse Geologist</a> website or the Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences page (<a href="https://twitter.com/GeoLatinas?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(214,123,15);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">@geolatinas</a>) and #BlackInGeoscience hashtag on Twitter.</font></p><h3 style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-size:2.5rem;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">7. Most important of all: You’re a leader. Just do something.</font></span></span></h3><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">PIs may be the royalty of the science world, but with that power comes great responsibility.</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">When it comes to working on these issues, “there’s a wave of enthusiasm from a grassroots level, mainly [by] students, postdocs, and early-career people,” said Cooperdock.</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">But where she sees the most progress is in places where people at the top match that energy.</font></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="times new roman, serif">“The ball is really in other people’s court now,” said Chen. “The limitation is really: Will other people pick up the mantle and move to action?”</font></p></div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="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