Geoscientists will play key roles in the grand challenges of the twenty-first century, but this requires our field to address its past when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Considering the bleak picture of racial diversity in the UK, we put forward steps institutions can take to break down barriers and make the geosciences equitable.

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Fieldwork is a key aspect of most Physical Geography, Earth and Environmental Science (GEES) degrees. From sampling Caledonian granites in Ireland, to measuring water turbidity in the Zambezi River, to logging sedimentary sequences in Utah, to using drones to analyse glaciers in Iceland, fieldwork means so many different things to geographers, earth, and environmental scientists.Yet this diversity of field environments is not mirrored by the wider GEES community itself. Numerous publications have now demonstrated that these disciplines have alarmingly poor representation of disabled, ethnic minority, and LGBTQ+ scientists (e.g.,

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