Assessing the demographics of the 2021 and 2022 CEDAR workshop

The Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) community is made engineers, scientists, physicists, students with a mission to understand the fundamental properties predictability space-atmosphere interaction region, including mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, inner magnetosphere. At 2020 CEDAR annual workshop, community-wide feedback received on diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) in warranted grassroots effort focused addressing DEI issues raised. This led creation task force, whose goals were 1) Assess formalize efforts CEDAR; 2) Establish normalize presence community; 3) Foster improvement through implementation actionable initiatives that promote inclusion. Of these items collecting demographic information those participating Annual Workshop was identified as top priority. paper therefore, reports obtained from registrants for virtual workshop 2021 in-person 2022. In general, demographics are consistent broader science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) fields, is, most participants identify male, White, or Asian/Middle Eastern. On average, women historically underrepresented races ethnicities STEM fields make up roughly 30% 10%, respectively, all 2022 over past 2 years. We further discuss relative published recent years by other organizations, where possible.