First-generation college students (FGCS), defined as students whose parents did not earn a baccalaureate degree, encounter distinct obstacles navigating academia. Barriers faced by FGCS, including lack of financial security, lower sense of belonging, and
Anahi Carrera, T. Luckie, E. Cooperdock
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Reflections on Negotiating the Science-Society Relationship Together
At the Tropical Rivers Lab at Florida International University, rivers have convened us to think deeply about how to best understand them and apply that understanding towards their conservation and sustainable management.
The Tropical Rivers Lab
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Prospective Study on Geosciences On-Line Education: UNESCO Global Geoparks in Spain and Portugal
UNESCO Global Geoparks (UGGps) stand out as territories of excellence for the development of educational activities in the international arena. Their didactic potential, their multidisciplinarity and their importance for the development of non-formal and
Jesús Enrique Martínez-Martín +3 more
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Knowledge graph construction and application in geosciences: A review
Knowledge graph (KG) is a topic of great interests to geoscientists as it can be deployed throughout the data life cycle in data-intensive geoscience studies. Nevertheless, comparing with the large amounts of publications on machine learning applications
Xiaogang Ma
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Electron Probe Microanalysis In Geosciences: Analytical Procedures And Recent Advances
Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) is an in-situ and non-destructive analytical technique with high spatial resolution and an increasingly important analysis tool in materials science and geosciences.
Shuiyuan Yang
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Machine Learning for the Geosciences: Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]
Geosciences is a field of great societal relevance that requires solutions to several urgent problems facing our humanity and the planet. As geosciences enters the era of big data, machine learning (ML)—that has been widely successful in commercial ...
A. Karpatne +4 more
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Equitable Exchange: A Framework for Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences
We highlight a mechanism for the coproduction of research with local communities as a means of elevating the social relevance of the geosciences, increasing the potential for broader and more diverse participation. We outline the concept of an “Equitable
L. A. Harris +18 more
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Physically Interpretable Neural Networks for the Geosciences: Applications to Earth System Variability [PDF]
Neural networks have become increasingly prevalent within the geosciences, although a common limitation of their usage has been a lack of methods to interpret what the networks learn and how they make decisions.
B. Toms, E. Barnes, I. Ebert‐Uphoff
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"Maybe this is just not the place for me:" Gender harassment and discrimination in the geosciences
Rampant gender-based harassment and discrimination are recognized problems that negatively impact efforts to diversify science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
A. Mattheis +4 more
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LA-ICP-MS imaging in the geosciences and its applications to geochronology
Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) mapping is a rapidly expanding field in the geosciences because of the wealth of spatial information it provides on the petrogenesis of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and
D. Chew, K. Drost, J. Marsh, J. Petrus
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