Resources

Geology Department Resources:

• IDEA Google Shared Drive (UMD only)
• Lab and Field Codes of Conduct

• Updated IDEA Action Flow Chart (Dec 2019)
• Karla Nunez’s 2022 Colloquium IDEA Workshop
  • Karla’s slides 
  • Literature cited
  • Video
• Belinda Huang’s slides, selected photos, and handouts from the Inclusivity Workshop (2019)
  • Individual responses to the post-workshop survey are available

UMD Resources:

• Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct
  • VI-1.00(B) UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY AND PROCEDURES (Approved on an Interim Basis October 1, 2015; Amended March 22, 2016;
    Amended and approved by the President May 6, 2016; Amended May 2, 2018)
• Student Crisis Fund
  • Apply for up to $500 of crisis funding; available once per academic year.

External Resources:

• Association of Women Geoscientists (AWG) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources page
• Seven ways PIs can counteract systemic bias right now, by Jenessa Duncombe in EOS (12 March 2021)
• an overview of systemic racism (from historical context to inequality today) with 158 resources furnished by the Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/158-resources-understanding-systemic-racism-america-180975029/
• a submission that informs on how to be a co-conspirator (“doer”) versus an ally (“talker”) https://www.vox.com/2020/6/2/21278123/being-an-ally-racism-george-floyd-protests-white-people
• an analysis of how to reduce police violence with 8 simple policies
• a recently released PNAS article (28 Apr 2020) on the paradoxical relationship between diversity and scientific innovation (PDF attached)
• NASA 2016 Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Implementation Plan
• Working Toward Gender Parity in the Geosciences, an EOS interview with Mary Anne Holmes, author of Women in the Geosciences: Practical, Positive Practices Toward Parity (2015)
• Increasing Diversity in the Geosciences, an AGU project update (2015)
• Gender bias found in Earth-science society journals, a Nature News piece (2018)
• These labs are remarkably diverse — here’s why they’re winning at science, a Nature News Feature (2018)
• Why Don’t the Geosciences Have More Diversity?, a Scientific American Voices piece (2018)
• No progress on diversity in 40 years, A Nature Comment by R.E. Bernard and E.H.G. Cooper (2018)
• The Importance of Ending All-Male Speaking Panels, A statement from Antonio Busalacchi, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
• Updated Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct released by the Geological Society of America
• Race and racism in the geosciences, A Nature Comment by Kuheli Dutt
• Creating Spaces for Geoscientists with Disabilities to Thrive, an EOS Opinion Article  by Anita M. Marshall and Sean Thatcher (2019)
• Women from some under-represented minorities are given too few talks at world’s largest Earth-science conference, a Nature Comment by Ford et al. (2019)