08:55:57 From Lesley Knoll - Itasca : Auction items are also on the home page: https://www.obfs.org/ under "news and upcoming events" 09:00:11 From Jennifer Seavey : Hi everyone! Great to see you!! 09:00:34 From Angie Patterson : Hi All, good morning! 09:00:49 From Lara Roketenetz : Good morning everyone! So glad to be with you all! 09:01:07 From Skip Van Bloem : I want to wear my orange flannel Clemson Forestry shirt that I wear every year (because it’s the only flannel shirt I have), but it’s 80+ degrees here. 09:01:10 From Sarah Oktay : Hi Lara! 09:01:59 From Jorge Ramos : Buenos dias!!! 09:02:06 From Elizabeth Long (she/her) : At some point today I’ll be adding a new item to the Live Auction: A station trip to Iracambi in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Many thanks to Robin for that donation! 09:02:07 From AJ (Alison Jolley) : Mōrena (morning) all! It's te reo Māori (Māori language) week in Aotearoa New Zealand right now :) 09:02:10 From Sarah Oktay : Hi Jorge! 09:02:23 From Laura Hainsworth : Hi All! So great to see everyone!! 09:06:35 From Jennifer Seavey : Thanks for the recognition of the hardship! 09:28:25 From Jorge Ramos : All good, we are following slides perfectly no worries. :-) 09:37:50 From Sara Syswerda (she, her) : Thanks Nia! 09:37:58 From Jorge Ramos : Super! Thank you so much for sharing! 09:38:01 From Matt Snider (he/him) : Great talk! 09:38:02 From Jennifer Seavey : Thank you Nia! Go Gators! 09:38:09 From James Elser : Welcome to OBFS Nic! 09:38:09 From Sarah Oktay : Thanks Nia! 09:38:10 From Jason Wallace : Great job!! 09:38:11 From Angie Patterson : Thank you so much Nia! That was great 09:38:15 From Elizabeth Long (she/her) : that was wonderful Nia, thank you 09:38:21 From Chuck Yohn : Great presentation, thanks! 09:38:24 From Lara Roketenetz : So good! Thank you! 09:38:27 From yvonne vaillancourt : Thank you Nia, that was great! 09:38:31 From James Elser : use raise hand function 09:38:44 From Matt Snider (he/him) : Do you feel like these changes are applicable in International Field Stations as well as American based ones? 09:38:46 From Andrew Rappe : Thanks Nia! 09:38:47 From Caitlin Potter (she/her) : thank you - that was awesome! 09:38:50 From Stefanie Whitmire (she/her) : Thank you Nia!! These were things I heard as a professor at an HBCU. 09:39:13 From AJ - Alison Jolley (she/her) : http://ufern.net/ 09:39:16 From Sarah Oktay : susan flowers had her hand up 09:39:18 From Suzanne Olyarnik : Thank you, Nia! 09:39:43 From Tom Bansak : Plenary Discussions Goal 1: Establish OBFS-wide policies and procedures that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in OBFS and at member stations Hosts: Elizabeth Long, Sara Syswerda https://umontana.zoom.us/j/98156997127?pwd=MVdBTDRZSm9qdUZqd1dpbCtpOUJTdz09 09:40:00 From Kari O'Connell (she/her/hers) : Thanks Nia!! Nia made her presentation by adapting her ESA Inspire Session talk so I do think there was a timer on her talk so thanks for your patience all! 09:40:10 From Cora Johnston (she/her) : So much helpful information - enthusiastic to discuss even without a specific question right now. (Thanks for including the citations.) 09:40:15 From Tony Barnosky : Great presentation! Thanks. Question: For financial incentives, at Jasper Ridge we are thinking of coming up with some sort of diversity/outreach award to honor students for their efforts in this regard, say at the $1000 level. Do you think something like this would be effective? 09:40:48 From Lara Roketenetz : Matt Snider also had a question above about international stations 09:41:01 From Jennifer Seavey : I have a question related to $$ too 09:41:07 From Tom Bansak : Goal 2: Improve and expand relationships with diverse user groups Hosts: Stacy McNulty, Amy Whipple https://umontana.zoom.us/j/94162635793pwd=U1lsbm1lQ2tNRzY5a1JPSlFZWGV1Zz09 (Same link as previous session: Plenary Talk) 09:41:56 From Stefanie Whitmire (she/her) : I have a question about pay as well. 09:42:32 From Angie Patterson : I have a question as well 09:42:46 From Matt Snider (he/him) : Thank you! 09:43:30 From Teresa Mourad, ESA : Competitive pay means at least $400 per week or $500 per week for the summer. + support for housing and transportation to get to and from field station. This is typical for REUs 09:44:26 From AJ - Alison Jolley (she/her) : A great paper just came out from the geoscience world, on using mobile technologies to support and enable accessible field trips - https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG462A.1 09:44:27 From Cora Johnston (she/her) : Thanks, Teresa - that helps! 09:44:30 From Susan Flowers (she/her) : I have a question about how to make sure BIPOC voices are at the table for the work of increasing inclusivity at predominantly white field stations. 09:45:04 From Claudia Luke : I have a comment about diversity and innovation 09:46:48 From Susan Flowers (she/her) : Thank you! 09:47:24 From Skip Van Bloem : We do have some urban members of OBFS, for example the Wayne State U station that centers on a wastewater treatment plant. Though they are certainly an outlier among the group. 09:47:36 From Lara Roketenetz : Stephanie and Angie had indicated that they have questions too 09:47:37 From Sarah Oktay : previous participants in diversity based groups visiting field stations would be a good group for the focus group Nia, I would have some names for you of BIPOC field station groups who would be perfect for that disucssiion, great idea!! 09:48:23 From Tony Barnosky : Echoing Claudia’s comment: diversity actually makes our science better. 09:49:05 From Nia Morales : n.morales@ufl.edu if anyone would like to contact me! 09:49:09 From Russell Bradley : Agree with Susan on the need to partner with organizations that are led by memebers of the communities we want to reach. Here is one: SACNAS – Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science – is an inclusive organization dedicated to fostering the success of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans, from college students to professionals, in attaining advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in STEM. https://www.sacnas.org/ 09:49:18 From Jorge Ramos : Gracias Nia! 09:49:54 From Sarah Oktay : Thanks Nia! 09:49:54 From Jorge Ramos : Here at Jasper Ridge, we work with SEEDS and SACNAS, strongly recommend you reaching out to your students in your campus and support them to start a chapter and then work with them. 09:50:35 From Teresa Mourad, ESA : Thanks Jorge, happy to talk to anyone who would like to host field trips. in this case, we have funding to do this! 09:50:36 From Sarah Oktay : McNair program is great too, worked with them for 12 years in a field compoent 09:51:02 From Stacy McNulty : US scientists can also encourage REU program reviews to be more inclusive... 09:51:05 From Skip Van Bloem : Re: orgs: Also Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS) chapters are present at many units, probably more prevalent at land grants 09:51:05 From Marty Downs (she/her) LTER Network Office : Lots of aquarium, natural history museums, and and science museums are miles ahead of us in making these connections — also great partners. 09:51:14 From Philippe S. Cohen : Jorge, Bullseye! I can confirm that the DEI strategic planning group has definitely incorporated that advice as one of the components in our recommendations. 09:52:03 From Chuck Yohn : Just an example, Lamar Gore at Heinz NWR is doing interesting work connecting the urban population to wild areas. 09:53:01 From Nia Morales : I worked with Lamar during my PhD- I interviewed his CDIP students 09:54:15 From Sarah Oktay : BIPOC students in our field program, program would come shop with me (food and personal care) as soon as they arrived on Nantucket to get comfort food they were familiar with - they loved it and it was a good introduction to living and cooking together for a week. 09:54:29 From Tom Bansak : Plenary Discussions Goal 1: Establish OBFS-wide policies and procedures that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in OBFS and at member stations Hosts: Elizabeth Long, Sara Syswerda https://umontana.zoom.us/j/98156997127pwd=MVdBTDRZSm9qdUZqd1dpbCtpOUJTdz09 09:54:38 From Teresa Mourad, ESA : Hi Susan, sure! I can connect our SEEDS staff with you. Please write me about your ideas : teresa@esa.org 09:55:04 From Tom Bansak : Goal 2: Improve and expand relationships with diverse user groups Hosts: Stacy McNulty, Amy Whipple https://umontana.zoom.us/j/94162635793?pwd=U1lsbm1lQ2tNRzY5a1JPSlFZWGV1Zz09 (Same link as previous session: Plenary Talk) 09:56:05 From Alicia Farmer (she/her) : Thanks again, Nia. 09:56:12 From Rhonda Struminger : Thanks, Nia!! 09:56:15 From Lesley Knoll - Itasca : Thank you Nia!!! 09:56:20 From AJ - Alison Jolley (she/her) : Thank you! 09:56:24 From Marty Downs (she/her) LTER Network Office : Thanks Nia! 09:56:26 From Nia Morales : Thanks for all your questions and comments! Hopefully I can meet you all in person at some point!! 09:57:08 From Susan Flowers (she/her) : Can we have meeting id and passwords? 09:58:07 From Dexter Mardis (he/him/his) : https://umontana.zoom.us/j/98156997127?pwd=MVdBTDRZSm9qdUZqd1dpbCtpOUJTdz09 09:58:18 From Dexter Mardis (he/him/his) : other room^ 09:58:45 From Tom Bansak : Additional info other Zoom 09:58:48 From Tom Bansak : Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83612326866?pwd=L0kvUVJWRnQ3YlFHTzd1N2NwUE9NQT09 Meeting ID: 836 1232 6866 Passcode: 547555 09:59:08 From Mary Cortese : Is this document posted somewhere for future reference? 09:59:24 From Rhonda Struminger : Outreach is one area where you can partner with other informal learning institutions as well as schools that already work with underrepresented populations 09:59:54 From Lara Roketenetz : We will be diving into the strategic plan later in the meeting and it should get shared out to everyone because we really want our members input! 10:01:41 From Brian Keas-Au Sable (he/him) : Could you explain acronyms in the document? 10:02:39 From Lara Roketenetz : Hey Brian - I will make a list of the acronyms and get them back to you. 10:03:10 From Jorge Ramos : Did someone send the doc? 10:03:16 From Jorge Ramos : Sorry chat was moving super fast 10:03:31 From Brian Keas-Au Sable (he/him) : Thanks Lara 10:03:33 From Stacy McNulty : Thanks Mary for the question. The board has the draft strategic plan doc and I believe will share it during or after this week's meeting. 10:03:34 From Susan Flowers : Is anyone else having trouble getting in to the other Zoom? 10:03:39 From Peter McCartney : I am indeed here 10:04:35 From Brian Keas-Au Sable (he/him) : Added file that was sent by e-mail with links. 10:05:23 From Brian Keas-Au Sable (he/him) : Sorry - doesn't look like it will let me upload a file. 10:06:43 From AJ - Alison Jolley (she/her) : @Susan I think this is the link - https://umontana.zoom.us/j/98156997127?pwd=MVdBTDRZSm9qdUZqd1dpbCtpOUJTdz09 Meeting ID must be: 98156997127 (but not sure of password) 10:07:55 From Jorge Ramos : Does someone have the link to the doc? 10:08:05 From Stacy McNulty : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hOSJnOyEazTKmgZkicw5rIwXff7giAwPLNn8Facdg50/edit 10:09:37 From Rhonda Struminger : Welcome Jorge!! 10:11:09 From Stefanie Whitmire (she/her) : Great points Jorge! 10:11:29 From Cora Johnston (she/her) : I agree with Jorge and think this is an important part of thinking about partnerships 10:12:00 From Jorge Ramos : Rhonda! Finally get to meet you 10:12:00 From ESA Education and Diversity : As a membership organization, you have distributed opportunities. And you may only support 1 or 2 people of color per year. OBFS can play a role to create a cohort experience of all the BIPOC to find each other and support each other. And then from there form a structure within your leadership/support your alumni and they will spread the word. But also when you have real permanent jobs, go back to the pool to hire. 10:13:11 From Alicia Anne Farmer : That’s a great point ^ 10:13:13 From AJ - Alison Jolley (she/her) : ^^^the cohort experience is SO important for sense of belonging and community! 10:14:49 From William Schuster : Maybe we should tacitly address the fact that there are different age groups to invite into the field. We should indeed reach out to students and groups at colleges and universities. But people's career trajectories are often started earlier thus we might emphasize the importance of reaching out to younger students as well. Some do not even know these opportunities and career tracks exist. 10:15:09 From ESA Education and Diversity : Yes what is the measure of success is a crucial conversation that OBFS can lead -- and engage funders in that. 10:15:19 From Lara Roketenetz : I'd like to add an comment 10:15:41 From Elizabeth Braker : Stacy's experience at NSF review for an REU is an example of the "hidden curriculum" embedded in the REU process. 10:16:06 From AJ - Alison Jolley (she/her) : I was going to say the same thing, Elizabeth! 10:16:22 From Marty Downs : The INCLUDES hub provides a lot of great resources. 10:17:02 From Marty Downs : https://www.includesnetwork.org/new-a/coordinationhub 10:17:12 From Matthew Dykstra : I think another thing for all of our field stations to be thinking about is our relationship with our local communities and whether or not we are working to make our localcommunities a welcoming place for our diverse user groups. I know that we can work to make people feel safe when onsite, but when they travel offsite they may run into difficult and/or dangerous situations. 10:20:40 From ESA Education and Diversity : there have been a series of articles published recently that speak to what Angie is saying about what BIPOC want. 10:21:05 From Cora Johnston (she/her) : Angie - I like this idea. One of my biggest hesitations with our outreach is that we have the underrep. audience but our scientists and staff don't look like them. How inviting is that? Maybe partnerships can help us build interest among earlier students while we are doing the work to diversify our scientific community. 10:21:20 From Lara Roketenetz : Can you post links to those papers ESA? 10:22:50 From Jorge Ramos : Cora, work and fundraise to hire BIPOC and give them paid assistants to help them build a team. Think about how universities are doing cluster hires, think about this in your own stations. 10:24:51 From AJ - Alison Jolley (she/her) : If you don't have connections with schools, one option is to start with your institutional Outreach Office or College/Faculty/Division of Education (if you have them). They likely know people who would be thrilled to work with you, and might even have access to funds too :) 10:24:56 From Luanna Prevost (she/her) : I second Jorge's comment. This format of a team was important for the POCs during my undergraduate OTS field experience 10:25:39 From ChrisTracy : Great point, Lara. I was thinking the same thing about the perception that conservation careers aren’t a pathway to a living wage, so aren’t popular with underrepresented groups trying to improve the next generation’s lot. 10:26:06 From Cora Johnston (she/her) : Jorge, we're working on that, but we have so few positions based at our station (only a few staff), that turnover and hiring opportunities are on a really slow cycle. I'm trying to figure out more that we can do in the meantime. 10:26:13 From Angie Patterson : Great point Lara, thanks 10:26:59 From Rhonda Struminger : Yes, Lara - career pathways with lots of support throughout is so needed! 10:27:35 From Cora Johnston (she/her) : Yes, Stefanie! What can we really offer? How do we communicate that? 10:29:03 From ChrisTracy : cheers to the cohort idea 10:29:20 From Lara Roketenetz : Affinity groups like Angie mentioned are really important for making folks feel safe 10:29:36 From gordo2jj : I want to add to AJ's comment. Several universities have programs that focus on recruiting minorities and employ people to work in inner city schools. Here at CMUBS, I have been able to tap into our program and have had several inner city colored kids from Detroit come to Beaver island and have a field experience. 10:29:45 From Claudia Luke : Got to go. Great conversation and plenary! 10:30:02 From Lara Roketenetz : Please continue to add to the conversation!! 10:30:04 From Stefanie Whitmire (she/her) : Thank you everyone for all your ideas!! 10:30:14 From Kari O'Connell (she/her/hers) : thanks everyone!!!!! and thanks to Nia!!! 10:30:19 From Cora Johnston (she/her) : Two action item suggestions: 1) Clarify what we have to offer to the partners we are seeking. 2) Plan a listening session/conversation with SEEDS, because they visit so many stations. 10:30:23 From Brian Keas-Au Sable (he/him) : Thanks everyone - have to head to an in-person meeting so I can be back this afternoon. 10:30:37 From AJ - Alison Jolley (she/her) : To Stefanie's comment - those nearby streams, grasses, etc are also part of the community, they have meaning as a significant place that students care about and are connected to. That can't be underestimated! 10:30:44 From ChrisTracy : great discussion everyone! 10:30:49 From Rhonda Struminger : Thanks!!!