Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee

The AmeriFlux DEI committee is a group of volunteers motivated to identify and tackle issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion. There are many organizations and institutes whose research focuses on these topics, so we hope to act as a link to share insights, news, and activities, as well as curate and collect best practices specific to this strongly field-driven and highly interdisciplinary community. We aim to provide practical resources, training, and discussion platforms for the AmeriFlux community across a range of aspects, such as to promote more inclusive hiring practices, field work suggestions, codes of conduct (for field work, lab environments, group activities and conferences), bystander intervention tactics, implicit bias awareness, as well as share research results on the situation and benefits of DEI in STEM fields.

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2024:

We launched our guidance for effective and inclusive job ads! Read more on this page and in this blog post.

We hosted a webinar series to highlight partnerships of flux or ecosystem sciences with indigenous groups and scholars. See this blog post for more information, and watch the recorded webinars here. If you want to suggest additional speakers for this series (including yourself), please contact ameriflux-dei@lbl.gov.

We led a roundtable discussion activity at the Annual Meeting, to begin a conversation about unspoken expectations, what skills really get people hired, and what skills we need as a community, to meet new challenges and opportunities in the field.

If you have thoughts, ideas, questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us! The topics we take on are driven by member interest and volunteers to lead.

2023:

We are working on developing guidance for inclusive job postings.

We are contributing to the new Early Career Day (Oct 3), which precedes the AmeriFlux Annual Meeting.

We are discussing how to better highlight, acknowledge and support indigenous science in the AmeriFlux community.

2022:

Launch of the AmeriFlux Resource for Inclusive and Safe Fieldwork

We are hosting a workshop to roll out our Resource for Inclusive and Safe Fieldwork. March 16, 10AM-12PM Pacific Time – Watch the recording here.

We are analyzing results from the DEI and workplace climate survey.

Report from the committee at the Annual Meeting (watch here)

We ran a twitter campaign collecting reactions and impressions to typical language in job postings.

2021:

We hosted a panel discussion at the 2021 AmeriFlux Annual Meeting: “Awareness and Action for Inclusive Fieldwork“, with Rebecca Barnes, Peter Griffith, and Rodrigo Vargas

We facilitated a breakout discussion at the 2021 AmeriFlux Annual Meeting: Interactive brainstorming on challenging scenarios around fieldwork.

We developed a DEI and workplace climate survey and gathered responses (also see Current Activities).

We developed a Resource for Inclusive and Safe Fieldwork (also see Current Activities).

2020:

We adopted a Meeting Code of Conduct for AMP Workshops and Events.

As a precursor to the formation of the committee, we held breakout discussions at the 2020 AmeriFlux Annual Meeting and the AGU Town Hall.