DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2rbnzs836
title: Data from: Graduate student reflections on learning and implementing community science methods to tackle compounding climate extremes

description: In this article and with this data, we, a cohort of eight graduate
 students with the United States Geological Survey Southwest Climate
 Adaptation Science Center 2022 - 2023 Natural Resource Workforce
 Development Fellowship, reflect on our experience learning and using
 community science skills as an interdisciplinary team through the lens of
 an experiential learning research project. These data include answers to
 an anonymous survey of the graduate student fellows reflecting on the
 year-long fellowship and learning process. There are five multiple-choice
 questions and eight open-ended questions that the fellows answered as part
 of the end-of-fellowship survey. The questions were created by the fellows
 within the framework of Goolsby et al. (2023).
description: # Data from: Graduate student reflections on learning and implementing
 community science methods to tackle compounding climate extremes Dataset
 DOI: [10.5061/dryad.2rbnzs836](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2rbnzs836) ##
 Description of the data and file structure In these data and the
 accompanying article, we, a cohort of eight graduate students with the
 United States Geological Survey Southwest Climate Adaptation Science
 Center 2022 - 2023 Natural Resource Workforce Development Fellowship,
 reflect on our experience learning and using community science skills as
 an interdisciplinary team through the lens of an experiential learning
 research project. As part of our fellowship, we conducted a
 post-fellowship survey to better understand if we, as a cohort of graduate
 students, gained or improved upon a set of skills necessary for community
 and co-produced science. The survey also included questions regarding
 challenges we anticipated (at the beginning of the fellowship) compared to
 the challenges we actually faced throughout the fellowship. The skills and
 challenges were adapted from Goolsby et al. (2023). The survey was created
 by the fellows and completed by seven of the eight fellows. The survey
 included five multiple choice questions and eight open-ended questions.
 The open-ended questions have been de-identified for publication.  The 18
 skills listed in Goolsby et al. (2023) fall within three categories:
 cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Definitions for each of these
 skills (as defined by Goolsby et al. (2023)) are included in the
 supplemental material of the accompanying manuscript (Table S1). These
 skills are identified as necessary to build community science expertise
 and are coupled with 20 community science challenges (Goolsby et a1.,
 2023). Three additional challenges were added by the fellows to gain a
 better understanding of specific challenges that fall within two broad
 challenges identified in Goolsby et al. 20230.  Goolsby, J., Cravens, A.,
 & Rozance, M. (2023). Becoming an actionable scientist: Challenges,
 competency, and the development of expertise. *Environmental Management,
 72*(6), 1128–1145.
 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01863-4](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01863-4) ### Files and variables #### File: Community_Science_Skills_Learned__McClure_et_al_2025_V2.xlsx **Description:** Results from an internal survey created by eight graduate students who participated in a year-long fellowship on learning and implementing community and co-produced science. Seven of the eight graduate student fellows completed the survey. Of the eight graduate students in the fellowship program, six are co-authors on the accompanying manuscript, while two opted out of authorship on the manuscript.  ##### Tabs *Summary:* The summary tab includes all questions included in the survey, broken into two categories: Multiple Choice Questions and Open-Ended Questions *Q1-Q5:* Summary results from each of the multiple choice questions. ##### Variables * *Totals:* Within each question tab 'total' represents the number of graduate students that reported gained or improving upon that skill, or facing that challenge.  ##### References Goolsby, J., Cravens, A., & Rozance, M. (2023). Becoming an actionable scientist: Challenges, competency, and the development of expertise. *Environmental Management, 72*(6), 1128–1145. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01863-4](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01863-4) ## Code/software Microsoft Excel  ## Access information Other publicly accessible locations of the data: * None Data was derived from the following sources: * None Questions in the survey were adapted from: Goolsby, J., Cravens, A., & Rozance, M. (2023). Becoming an actionable scientist: Challenges, competency, and the development of expertise. *Environmental Management, 72*(6), 1128–1145. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01863-4](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01863-4) ## Human subjects data There was no identifiable information collected for this survey. All results are from an internal survey (i.e., generated by and answered by the fellowship participants who are all authors on this paper) on an experience participating in a graduate student fellowship. Results from the survey include answers to multiple choice and open-ended questions. For the open-ended questions, any names that were mentioned have been removed. There is no other identifiable information included in these data.