Topic: Diversity & Inclusion

Women's International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA)

📚 Category: Maritime Industry

🏷️ Topics include: Blue Economy; Diversity & Inclusion; Career Development Support

📍 Country/Region: International

WISTA is an international networking organisation whose mission is to attract and support women, at the management level, in the maritime, trading and logistics sectors.

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Women’s Aquatic Network

📚 Category: Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Diversity & Inclusion; Envionment/Sustainability; Oceanography; Policy/Governance; Socioeconomics; Coastal Communities

📍 Country/Region: USA


The Women's Aquatic Network (WAN) brings together professionals with interests in marine, coastal and The Women's Aquatic Network (WAN) is a volunteer-run, non-profit organization incorporated in 1985 in the District of Columbia that brings together professionals with interests in marine, coastal, and aquatic affairs. Membership and participation are open to all. The purpose of WAN is to facilitate networking by providing opportunities for professionals with interests in marine, coastal, and aquatic affairs in an atmosphere that encourages information exchange, career development, and fellowship.

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WISTA (Women's International Shipping & Trading Association) France

📚 Category: Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Diversity & Inclusion; Career Development Support

📍 Country/Region: France

WISTA France est l’association française de WISTA International, un réseau international de femmes qui occupent des postes à responsabilités dans le secteur maritime.

Soutenu par les acteurs publics et privés, WISTA France promeut la place et le rôle des femmes depuis 2004 afin de renforcer la mixité Femmes-Hommes, gage de performance, d’équilibre, d’attractivité, de développement durable et responsable des secteurs du maritime français.

Continuer à promouvoir la place des femmes, à les rassembler, à les accompagner et les soutenir dans leur développement professionnel Encourager la mixité Femmes-Hommes dans les entreprises dans les secteurs du maritime Apporter une solution aux instances de gouvernance des entreprises publiques et privées qui veulent se féminiser, à travers le cercle FAM WISTA France contribue à faire découvrir les métiers du maritime occupés par des femmes, auprès des jeunes filles.

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Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS)

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📚 Category: Ocean Professionals; Multidisciplinary

🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Data Science/Modelling; Scuba Diving; Diversity & Inclusion; Ocean Literacy; Environment/Sustainability; Fisheries; Aquaculture; Marine Science; Geoscience; Oceanography

📍 Country/Region: Africa; North America

Mission Statement

The Society for Women in Marine Science brings together marine scientists of all career levels to discuss the diverse experiences of women in marine science, celebrate the research done by women in the field, and promote the visibility of women in the marine science community.

Minorities in Shark Science

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Elasmobranchs (Sharks Skates & Rays); Diversity & Inclusion

📍 Country/Region: International

We were founded by four Black female shark researchers. We strive to be seen and take up space in a discipline which has been largely inaccessible for women like us. We strive to be positive role models for the next generation. We seek to promote diversity and inclusion in shark science and encourage women of color to push through barriers and contribute knowledge in marine science. Finally, we hope to topple the system that has historically excluded women like us and create an equitable path to shark science. We believe diversity in scientists creates diversity in thought, which leads to innovation.

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Black in Marine Science

📚 Category: Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Diversity & Inclusion

📍 Country/Region: International

We are a premier organization aimed to celebrate Black marine scientists, spread environmental awareness and inspire the next generation of scientific thought leaders.

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American Geophysical Union

📚 Category: Multidisciplinary

🏷️ Topics include: Policy/Governance; Diversity & Inclusion; Earth Sciences; Space Sciences

📍 Country/Region: USA

AGU is a global community supporting more than half a million advocates and professionals in the Earth and space sciences.

Through broad and inclusive partnerships, AGU aims to advance discovery and solution science that accelerate knowledge and create solutions that are ethical, unbiased and respectful of communities and their values. Our programs include serving as a scholarly publisher, convening virtual and in-person events and providing career support. We live our values in everything we do, such as our net zero energy renovated building in Washington, D.C. and our Ethics and Equity Center, which fosters a diverse and inclusive geoscience community to ensure responsible conduct.

AGU was established in 1919 by the National Research Council and operated as an unincorporated affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences for more than 50 years. We were independently incorporated in 1972.

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