Today our paper was published on "The role of professional societies in advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and accessibility in the fields of coastal and ocean science" in Oceanography magazine's special issue on building diversity, equity and inclusion. In this article, we examine 12 functional services that professional societies provide to the field, and how each service can be used to advance DEI goals. We provide examples of specific actions that ocean-themed societies have taken to advance these goals, and also provide some suggestions for how societies can continue to make improvements in the field. For example, The Oceanography Society maintains a fully open access journal and has recently formed the JEDI committee. However, TOS nominees and winners of honors and awards have historically been homogenous, so TOS is renovating the awards, the nomination process and the criteria, in the hopes of creating a more diverse and equitable honors program. Right whale up-calls were detected on our Norfolk buoy this morning! These detections triggered a voluntary slow zone that will last for 15 days called the "E Virginia Beach Slow Zone". A mom-calf pair were spotted off the coast of South Carolina last week. It's been a great start to the right whale migration season! To keep up with their movements, check out WhaleMap and Robots4Whales. |
AuthorErin Meyer-Gutbrod is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. Her lab researches human impacts to marine ecosysems. Archives
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