Compiled Demographics Data for \"Awards, Keynotes, and Gender Equity in Coastal Geoscience and Engineering: A Fifty-Year Perspective\"

This project assembled a database of more than 1,100 entries documenting the gender demographics of honorees within coastal geoscience and engineering (CGE) over the past 50 years (1978-2025). This comprehensive dataset enables evaluation of temporal and organizational trends in gender equity across the field and is used in the publication of Wilson et al., (in revision) \"Awards, Keynotes, and Gender Equity in Coastal Geoscience and Engineering: A Fifty-Year Perspective\". The dataset includes 984 instances of 45 awards given by 14 organizations and 154 invited keynote speakers from five conferences which lack established awards. This dataset considers nominated significant achievement and early career awards, invited keynote speakers and named lectures, best student presentation or paper awards, and grants for student research and conference attendance. For each record, we compiled the name of the awarding society, award name, years conferred, and the name of awardee from organizational webpages. Society section and career stage associated with the award were recorded when applicable. Gender classification of honorees – male or female and gender minorities (collectively, “female+”) – was carefully determined using names, photos, and self-identified pronouns on public-facing materials (e.g., professional webpages, university profiles, or other self-descriptive text) and self-identified pronouns where available. In cases where these details could not be found, gender of the individual was inferred using name-based gender associations relying on the common usage in the cultural context of the individual.