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From recruitment to retention

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Increased efforts in recruiting minority students have not proven to be enough to address the lack of diversity in the geosciences. A collaborative mentoring culture is needed to permanently change the make-up of our field.

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Haacker, R. From recruitment to retention. Nature Geosci 8, 577–578 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2501

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