The next panel is on the State of the Profession: Demographics of the Space Sciences Workforce with Susan White of AIP, Leila Gonzales of AGI, and Christopher Keane also fo AGI (American Geosciences Institute) #IDILCSM

White: 4 surveys: 2011 Planetary, 2011 Solar & Space Physics, 2018 AAS, 2020 Planetary. Some are limited to US residents, some exclude students. Planetary is largest (over 4000). Also need to point out that these fields overlap, but we don't know how much. #IDILCSM

White: the proportion of Physics Bachelor's degrees awarded to African Americans has remained flat for a long time. This is the group most often tapped into all of these fields. #IDILCSM

White: Percentage of physics bachelor's degrees to women increased until ~the year 2000 and has remained flat at ~20%. #IDILSCM

White: Pretty much all the surveys have low numbers of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx scientists. While the solar and space physics have very low numbers of women, Astro and planetary over 30% women. #IDILCSM

White: The more recent surveys on Astro and planetary also asked about Disability status and ~15% responded yes. #IDILCSM

White: When it comes to PIing a mission only 4% in solar and space physics, 9% of women in planetary, 16% of men in planetary #IDILCSM

Unfortunately, Leila Gonzales cannot be at this meeting today. #IDILCSM

Keane (will be covering Leila Gonzales' presentation also): Geosciences has traditionally had worse representation than other STEM fields, but has recently reached the same (bad) level of other STEM fields #IDILCSM

Keane: When looking at workforce participation by race, need to realize that Black and African-American also includes temporary workers brought in from Africa by natural gas industry during boom cycles. Need to disaggregate. #IDILCSM

Keane: Undergrad Geoscience degrees awarded to Hispanic students has increased, other underrepresented racial/ethnic groups have remained flat. Asian not tracked (not considered underrepresented by US gov), but it is very small #IDILCSM

Keane: Gender is one area where the geosciences do much better when compared to other STEM fields, second only to life sciences. Very close to parity at the PhD level. One major input at the master's level is people with English undergrad degrees. #IDILCSM

Keane: Strong growth in Hispanic engagement (ex: U Texas GeoFORCE program w/ ~$2M per year investment). Most students don't go far for college, large # of good geo programs in Hispanic areas, very few in African-American communities #IDILCSM

Keane: Only 8% of geoscience students are first generation and 50% of first generation are members of underrepresented groups (vs. 30% in general college population) #IDILCSM