Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Science & Engineering

Earth Sciences

This page contains books, videos, journal articles, theses/dissertation, and other resources useful on topics related to equity, diversity, and inclusion within earth sciences. Most resources will require Ohio State user access. Please visit other disciplines or items for specific underrepresented groups on other pages, found to the left.

• Hostile climates are barriers to diversifying the geosciences 2020

• Programs to Build Capacity in Geosciences at HBCUs and MSIs: Examples from North Carolina A&T State University 2019

• An earth hazards camp to encourage minority participation in the geosciences 2017

• Understanding perceptions of the geosciences among minority and nonminority undergraduate students 2016

• Choosing the Geoscience Major: Important Factors, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender   2015

• Teachers' geoscience career knowledge and implications for enhancing diversity in the geosciences 2013

• Survey development for measuring the near-term effectiveness of a program to recruit minority geoscientists 2007

• Impacts of Experiential Learning on the Affective Domain: Gaining Insight into How to Broaden Participation in the Geosciences           2021
• Promoting Sense of Belonging and Interest in Geosciences among Undergraduate Women through Mentoring   2019
• A Study of Ethnogeological Knowledge and Other Traditional Scientific Knowledge in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic   2018
• Diversity in geoscience: Critical incidents and factors affecting choice of major  2016
• Training future geoscientists and collaborative scholarship: Strategies to recruit, retain and help diverse geoscience students succeed   2014
• Determining persistence of community college students in introductory geology classes    2011
• Broadening the Participation of Native Americans in Earth Science   2011
• Minority college student attitudes toward the geological sciences: Unearthing barriers to enrollment   2009
• Using rock art as an alternative science pedagogy   2008
• Development of a definition, classification system, and model for cultural geology  2004

Interviews of African American Scientists (HistoryMakers):

Geophysicist

• Frank Dale Morgan
• Waverly Person

Oceanographer

• Evan Forde
• Dawn Wright

Other Library Videos:

• Madam Mars, Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond 

• Mining (Career Options for Women) 

• Oil and gas technologies (Career Options for Women) 

From YouTube:

• Lisa White | Paleontology Meets Social Justice: Who Says We Can't Make Progress? 

• Women at the frontline of climate change 

• A Call to Action for an Anti-racisit Science Community from Geoscientists of Color: Listen, Act, Lead