Science Teams' Effective Practices

The Science Teams and Effective Practices (NSF-STEP) Study examines how demographic and scientific diversity at both the individual and the team level affects the practices of environmental scientists and their teams. Data from individuals in environmental science were collected in 2017. We identified potential participants and teams from the awards database of three National Science Foundation interdisciplinary environmental science funding programs. As the database only reports contact information for project Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs), we requested that the project PIs provide contact information for all team members (e.g., graduate student research assistants, post-docs, technicians, etc.) whom we then invited to participate in an online survey via email. The larger study examined team practices around authorship, mentoring, and data sharing. The present dataset includes composites of individual and team diversity, perceptions of the team climate, general satisfaction on the team, satisfaction with authorship on the team, and the frequency of data sharing on the team.