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Paper No. 206-8
Presentation Time: 2:00 PM-6:00 PM

WE HAVE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES - WHAT’S NEXT TO PROMOTE EQUITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND JUSTICE?


HILLS, Denise J.1, WILSON, Bruce E.2, RITCHEY, Nancy3, CARTER ORLANDO, Megan4 and SHINGLEDECKER, Susan4, (1)Energy Investigations Program, Geological Survey of Alabama, PO Box 869999, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-6999, (2)Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, (3)National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, NC 28801, (4)Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), Boulder, CO 80304

The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), formed in 1998 as a way for community stakeholders to be engaged with NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), has always attracted a diverse group of partners. Currently, ESIP includes more than 170 partner organizations spanning academia, state and local government, non-profits, and industry. From its inception, ESIP has valued openness, participation, inclusiveness, and innovation.

To help promote those values, ESIP community participants developed Community Participation Guidelines (CPG, modified from Mozilla’s CPG), which were initially adopted in July 2020. While similar to a code of conduct, the CPG includes what behaviors are expected as well as what behaviors will not be tolerated. By including expected behaviors, the CPG helps keep people at the heart of community interactions. ESIP’s CPG has served as a model for other groups and organizations (e.g., NSF’s EarthCube). Community participants are encouraged to report any incidents, no matter how insignificant, so that ESIP can address concerns and identify any systemic issues.

Recently, ESIP community participants called for more deliberate work on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice (EDIJ). The ESIP Board of Directors made a resolution in January of 2022 to establish an advisory committee on EDIJ. This short-term advisory committee is initially charged to look broadly across ESIP to determine what policies, practices, and priorities are needed to meet ESIP’s goals related to EDIJ, as well as to propose a permanent EDIJ committee to develop and promote those policies, practices, and priorities.

The committee began its work in April 2022. Several challenges were immediately identified, such as the lack of data on historical participation and lack of expertise in how to identify what rights-holders are not appropriately engaged. The committee is looking at ways to address such challenges so that ESIP can promote justice within the Earth and space science informatics community.

Session No. 206--Booth# 130

T161. Institutional and Grassroots Efforts Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Scientific Workplace (Posters)
Tuesday, 11 October 2022: 2:00 PM-6:00 PM
Exhibit Hall F (Colorado Convention Center)
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 54, No. 5
doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-378541
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