UMass Amherst's Gloucester Marine Station is committed to the success and well-being of every individual in our community regardless of group identity.
GMS is also committed to the development of a community that recognizes and encourages the power of diverse perspectives and mutual respect. In alignment with UMass Amherst’s actions toward building a more diverse and inclusive community, we will include metrics of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness into our undergraduate, graduate, postdoc, and internship opportunities. To accomplish this, we are working from the Department of Environmental Conservation Anti-Racism Action Plan. This plan’s action items include:
- Dismantling structural elements that maintain the status quo
- Combating complacency
- Embedding learning about social justice
- Increasing accountability and transparency
GMS is dedicated to fostering learning opportunities and filling positions with qualified people from underrepresented groups to ensure the personnel reflects the diversity of the broader community.
At Gloucester Marine Station, we acknowledge we are on what is, and always will be, Indigenous land.
The site we know as Hodgkins Cove in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is part of occupied land that was, and is, the homeland of Pawtucket and Agawam tribal nations and other Indigenous peoples going back many thousands of years to the present day.
Read the UMass Amherst Land Acknowledgment.
Learn more about the UMass-led Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledge and Science.