ADVANCE Partnership and Adaptation Initiatives

E&ER has worked with several projects supported by NSF ADVANCE Partnership and Adaptation grants that seek to foster women's advancement in the sciences. These projects have focused on career development in the form of workshops, networking and mentoring.

E&ER served as program evaluator for the Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching NeTworks (ASCENT) program for women in atmospheric science or meteorology. ASCENT offers an annual three-day networking workshop for junior and senior women scientists, with follow-up reunions at major national meetings. The workshops aim to encourage positive mentoring relationships, to educate participants about the obstacles faced by women in science, and to provide women with resources for overcoming these obstacles.

Publications

  • Hallar, A.G., Avallone, L.M., Thiry, H., & Edwards, L.M. (2015). ASCENT: A discipline-specific model to support the retention and advancement of women in science. Ch. 13 in M.A. Holmes, S. O’Connell & K. Dutt (Eds.), Women in the geosciences:  Practical, positive practices toward parity, AGU Special Publications 70, Washington, DC, & Hoboken, NJ:  American Geophysical Union & John Wiley & Sons; pp. 135-148. 
  • Avallone, L., Hallar, A.G., Thiry, H. & Edwards, L. (2013). Supporting the retention and advancement of women in the atmospheric sciences: What women are saying. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94(9), 1313-1316

Reports

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under award HRD-0820214. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these reports are those of the researchers, and do not necessarily represent the official views, opinions, or policy of the National Science Foundation.

The Earth Science Women's Network is a grassroots network formed to support early-career women geoscientists. As evaluators for ESWN, we gathered data to understand the issues that ESWN members face and to explore the outcomes of the network's in-person and online professional development offerings.

Publications

Reports

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under award HRD-0929829. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these reports are those of the researchers, and do not necessarily represent the official views, opinions, or policy of the National Science Foundation.

The Horizontal Mentoring Alliances project is designed to facilitate the advancement of senior women chemistry faculty members at liberal arts institutions to the highest ranks of academic leadership by achieving four linked objectives:

  1. helping senior women faculty articulate short- and long-range career goals and then formulate action plans to attain them;
  2. helping senior women faculty achieve professional recognition or leadership roles in their departments, institutions, and professional organizations;
  3. identifying and/or creating resources that address career development issues for senior women at liberal arts institutions; and
  4. disseminating best practices on mentoring strategies for academic women.

The external evaluation sought to document progress toward these objectives, assess the relative effectiveness of each of the project’s strategies, and explore what issues may differ for women at liberal arts colleges as compared to those at Ph.D.-granting institutions—and which therefore may require different strategies to solve.

A similar network of women physicists and astronomers developed this strategy further.

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under awards HRD-0619150 and HRD-1500529. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these reports are those of the researchers, and do not necessarily represent the official views, opinions, or policy of the National Science Foundation.