FIELD Fellows builds on the outcome of the FIELD Institute by designing a cohort-based program under the GOLD-en solicitation with the following objectives:
(1) Identify, support and initiate a network of potential leaders for diversity with a focus on the early career faculty and graduate students in the earth sciences isolated at different institutions;
(2) Provide a series of interventions designed to empower the individual voices of those groups underrepresented in the science;
(3) Create a professional development platform centered around networking, career development;
(4) Partner with other programs and professional societies focused on diversity and providing professional science experiences in the earth sciences; and
(5) Design interventions that creates cohort projects addressing diversity issues in the Earth Sciences.