{"id":6047,"date":"2020-06-11T12:16:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/?page_id=6047"},"modified":"2022-01-21T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:56:49","slug":"goals-and-plans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/chapters\/goals-and-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"SEEDS Chapter Program Goals and Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Goals and Outcomes<\/h1>\n

Today, we face challenges that are unprecedented in scope and scale as the impacts of environmental change become increasingly felt across the nation. Yet, these environmental issues often have local or regional impacts that disproportionately impact\u00a0particular communities\u00a0of color, low-income communities, and indigenous communities.\u00a0<\/span>Increasing the participation of African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in ecology and environmental sciences is crucial to achieve relevant and effective results in the policies and management decisions that impact our air, water, food, energy, wildlife, natural resources, recreation areas and sacred spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Achieving this will require trained ecological scientists representing all racial and ethnic groups in the workforce. In order to address the serious issues threatening our ecological systems at different scales, it is essential to engage our communities, foster divergent thinking and engender innovative solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The proposed\u00a0ESA\u00a0SEEDS Chapters Engagement\u00a0program\u00a0will\u00a0support and\u00a0expand opportunities for many more\u00a0students\u00a0underrepresented in ecology,\u00a0on campuses across the nation, to:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Increase\u00a0<\/span>their\u00a0<\/span>understanding of\u00a0<\/span>ecological\u00a0<\/span>systems and functioning\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Learn about the wide spectrum of ecology and environmental science careers in all sectors<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Organize local or regional field explorations and community-oriented<\/span>,\u00a0culturally-relevant<\/span>\u00a0activities<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Develop their\u00a0<\/span>leadership<\/span>\u00a0skills<\/span>\u00a0in communication<\/span>, policy<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>stakeholder engagement <\/span>among diverse populations<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Expand their personal and professional networks in the field<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    SEEDS Chapter Engagement Plan<\/h1>\n

    The SEEDS Chapters Engagement Plan will be driven by ideas proposed by SEEDS Chapters. We seek to establish consistent and regular communications with all SEEDS chapter leaders and advisers e.g. through Virtual Cafes to exchange ideas for chapter activities and fundraising.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    Among the possibilities for SEEDS Chapter engagement, we envision:<\/p>\n

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    1. Regional undergraduate conferences<\/span> that feature student research and career development activities<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Local or regional <\/span>field\u00a0<\/span>experiences or campus\u00a0Bioblitzes\u00a0<\/span>to encourage local ecological knowledge<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>and connection to local scientists and professionals<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Collaborative thematic projects<\/span> to build a sense of cohesion in the SEEDS chapter network such as a water sustainability program or urban ecology project.<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. And more!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      We have reactivated the SEEDS Chapter Grants Program<\/a> to support individual chapters and regional activities such as the above.<\/p>\n

      Be sure to sign up for the SEEDS monthly newsletter t<\/a>o receive timely information on all of SEEDS opportunities!<\/p>\n

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      Our university chapters have been very vocal about how much the opportunity to have more of these excursions means to them:<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \u201cW<\/span>e were s<\/span><\/i>uccessful in providing a low cost [field]\u00a0<\/span><\/i>trip and engaging everyone who went with information abou<\/span><\/i>t the environment around Tahoe\u2026.<\/span><\/i>we learned about Lake Tahoe\u2019s history and the ongoing research occurring there was especially productive because everyone, including those returning to Tahoe, was able to learn something new.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

      Because of the low cost per person a diverse group of students was able to go and experience this exciting outdoor adventure and get exposed to new ecosystems.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

      ~UC-Davis, SEEDS Chapter report<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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      \u00a0 Goals and Outcomes Today, we face challenges that are unprecedented in scope and scale as the impacts of environmental change become increasingly felt across the nation. Yet, these environmental issues often have local or regional impacts that disproportionately impact\u00a0particular communities\u00a0of color, low-income communities, and indigenous communities.\u00a0Increasing the participation of African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in ecology and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":6068,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6047","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6047\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}