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... Community standards of conduct and equity processes that are uniformly accepted and sufficiently respected to be successfully self-policed, with a review process to externally address situations deficient in ethics, equity processes, and recognition of the value of diverse opinions within the science enterprise. At its most basic level, NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD)
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... Not all competent individuals in the science enterprise have had access to a well-supported educational and professional development pathway. Many have received their degrees from under-resourced universities or worked in smaller organizations.
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... Regular, temporal metrics to describe the many facets of the workforce provide a perspective of progress and opportunities. Sustaining a Diverse Science Enterprise Through Outreach, Acceptance, and Development The research community, an entire ecosystem of skills, professions, organizations, and experiential pathways, must recognize, respect, and nurture its component parts.
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... , have been instrumental in tracking progress and change. Resilience to Emerging Challenges Most NASA science missions take a decade or even decades from start to the return and analysis of data.
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... Foundations for the Health of NASA SMD's Research • Clarity of Science for Efficient Research and Public Support Community: Assuring Strong, Clear Science Priorities 4. Foundations for the Health of NASA SMD's Research • A Representative Workforce Community: Ensuring a Healthy People Enterprise • Sustaining a Diverse Science Enterprise Through Outreach, Acceptance, and Development 5.
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... . With this view of preparing for and enabling change, suggested processes include developing visualization tools that track and communicate multiple items: long-cycle science goals, the various separate initiatives being conducted by NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD)
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... Due Date (NoDD) or Rolling Submissions," NASA Science Mission Directorate, https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/NoDD.
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