Purpose:
This survey is part of AGI's Geoscience Program Adaptation to Natural Disruptive Events (GRANDE) project. The goal of the GRANDE project is to identify best practices for incorporating natural hazard events into the operations, teaching, and research activities of geoscience academic departments. By doing so, the project aims to strengthen geoscience academic programs and improve institutional resilience, ensuring a robust knowledge base and workforce capable of helping society sustain or even thrive in the face of increasing hazards from earth processes. For more information, please visit the GRANDE project website: https://grande.americangeosciences.org
To participate in this survey, you must be at least 18 years old, reside in the United States, and either hold a geoscience degree or are a college or university student pursuing a geoscience degree.
Procedure:
The survey will provide participants with the opportunity to share examples of how they have incorporated natural hazards into their education, research, and teaching, as well as if departments have made changes to their operations to become more resilient to hazard impacts.
Risks:
There are no foreseeable risks for participating in this study, but some potential minimal risk includes the time spent completing the surveys, oral history interview, or focus group activities, and the risk of breach of confidentiality.
Benefits:
While there may not be any immediate benefits for you as participants, there would be indirect benefits. The opportunity for lessons learned by the geoscience discipline and innovations by departments and faculty can be used in modeling potential mitigation of impacts and unique learning opportunities within higher education, as well as across all formal education levels. Identifying the universe of responses is the first step towards developing systemic approaches and strategies for advancing educational resilience in increasingly disruptive environments.
Confidentiality:
All the data collected from this study will be housed in a secure database and your identity and survey responses will be separately stored, only joined via an offline stored token. The only people that will have access to the study’s data will be the project’s research team who are all employees of AGI. We will keep your identity and the information you supply private. We will not share your personal information with anyone outside the project team. The only instance—and such occasions are rare—when we would release information about you to anyone without your permission would be if we were required to do so by law.
Voluntary Participation:
Your participation in the survey is completely voluntary and will not affect your future engagement with activities or programs of the American Geosciences Institute. You can decide to not participate or to discontinue your participation at any time without penalty.
If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please contact the primary investigator:
Christopher Keane, Director of Geoscience Profession & Higher Education
keane@americangeosciences.org
(571) 483-5430
4220 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22302
Statement of Consent:
If you have read the above information, received answers to any questions, and agree to participate in the study, please click, “Next.” If you do not wish to continue, please close your browser to exit this survey.
