Dear Colleagues,

(Please excuse any cross postings about this session that you may receive.)

Do you have experiences to share making workplaces more inclusive for geoscience professionals with disabilities? Are you a geoscience professional with a disability who would like to share your experiences?

We are excited to invite you to share your success stories with your peers at AGU 2019, Session 82989: Strategies to promote accessibility and inclusion for geoscientists with disabilities in geoscience research and industry.  Please consider submitting an abstract describing your experiences and current best practices of accessibility and inclusion at your place of work. The session aims to provide platform to showcase such practices, share resources available to students and professionals and ways to overcome barriers still present in geoscience workforce.

The AGU Fall Meeting will be held in San Francisco. from 9-13 December 2019.
 
The abstract submission closes 31 July 2019 at 23:59 EDT.
 
Link to submit abstract:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/82989

Session ID: 82989

Session Title: . Strategies to promote accessibility and inclusion for geoscientists with disabilities in geoscience research and industry

Section: Education

Accommodating students with disabilities in undergraduate geoscience programs is becoming more prevalent. However, what is less known is the support being provided for graduate level researchers and geoscience practitioners in the workforce. This session aims to provide a platform to discuss current best practices of accessibility and inclusion at research institutions and in the diverse geoscience work environments from the laboratory to the field.  Further, this session will share resources available to students with disabilities pursuing upper level research and careers in the geosciences and how to overcome the barriers still present in the geoscience workforce. Presentations in this session will showcase a variety of examples from both research and industry where access and inclusion is placed as priority to enable students and practitioners with disabilities to pursue graduate level training and pursue geoscience careers. Abstracts from all centers of employment (academia, research, industry and government) are welcome. 

Feel free to contact Sumant Jha ([log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]) if you have questions. We hope to see you in San Francisco in December!
 
Best regards,
Primary Convener: Sumant Jha (Colorado State University, IAGD)
Conveners: Dr. Michele Cook (UMass), Dr. Lauren Adamo (Rutgers), Dr. Anthony Gary (Chevron)