Subcommittee on Professional Culture & Climate
What is the Professional Culture & Climate Subcommittee (PCCS)?
Read the Charge [1].
What do we do?
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Aim to understand barriers faced by underrepresented communities in planetary science and communicate them to the DPS leadership and broader community.
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Annual duties:
- Choose a speaker for a plenary presentation on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) issues at the annual DPS meeting (see previous presentations below)
- After each DPS meeting, review anonymous survey results particularly with regards to EDI and accessibility matters.
- At least one member of our subcommittee serves on the LOC and SOC for the annual DPS meeting to advise on EDI and accessibility issues
- Arrange for yearly implicit bias or other EDI training for the DPS committee, DPS Prize subcommittee, and other DPS groups as requested.
- Submit recommendations to the DPS leadership to increase EDI in our community (see below)
- Present at various meetings, including DPS, on what the committee is working on and/or EDI information of value to the community.
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Additional efforts for generation of community/DPS resources are undertaken depending on community needs and subcommittee time availability.
Expectations of members:
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Attend most of the bi-weekly telecons and be responsible for taking detailed write telecon notes approximately twice per year.
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Take the lead or co-lead on at least one of the tasks above.
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Be aware of and engage in discussions and trainings (within and outside of PCCS) to learn about the varied lived experiences of all members of the planetary community (particularly underrepresented groups) and work to improve the culture and climate of our community.
Recommendations
Click on the year to download the PCCS recommendations to the DPS Committee. The DPS Committe responses will be posted in the future.
Resources
- Patricia Knezek's talk [8] on unconscious bias from the 2016 DPS meeting.
- William Smith’s talk [9] on the long-term effects of Racial Microaggressions on people of color in STEM from the 2017 DPS meeting.
- Christina Richey’s talk [10] on EDI in Science from the 2018 DPS meeting.
- K. Renee Horton’s talk [11] on supporting underrepresented minorities: “Don’t Silence Our Voice at the Table”, from the 2020 DPS meeting. A recording of the talk can be found here [12].
- PCCS position paper on Double Anonymous Reviewing for Planetary Science Journals. [13]
- PCCS Reading List [14]
Current DPS Professional Culture & Climate Subcommittee
| Member | Term Start | Notes |
| Michaela Leung | 2020 | |
| James Roberts [15] | 2020 | |
| Jodi Berdis [16] | 2020 | |
| Joseph Masiero [17] | 2020 | |
| Serina Diniega [18] | 2017 | 2020-present chair |
| Julie Rathbun [19] | 2017 | 2018-2020 Chair |
| Ingrid Daubar [20] | 2019 | |
| Shawn Brooks [21] | 2018 | 2020-present co-chair |
| Jennifer Piatek [22] | 2017 | |
| Edgard Rivera-Valentin [23] | 2017 |
