ED11E:
Professional Development for Graduate Students in the Geosciences Posters


Session ID#: 8738

Session Description:
A challenge of graduate education is not only developing a student’s understand of the concepts and techniques of their own discipline, but to prepare them to take on the activities of a professional. These not only include self-directed research, but also proposal writing, mentoring students, mission planning, reporting to funding agencies, communicating with the scientific community, and engaging in education and public outreach. Graduate education should also include preparation for careers outside of research science. These activities often take place in programs and activities outside of the students research group or even outside of their home institution. Summer schools, workshops, special sessions at professional meetings, and non-discipline based professional meetings are often important aspects of a graduate students training. This proposal invites abstracts that describe unique training opportunities for graduate students that prepare them for careers as working scientists or for jobs outside of the traditional scientific community.
Primary Convener:  Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, United States
Conveners:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States and Andrew J Shaner, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States and Andrew J Shaner, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SSERVI Opportunities for the Next Generation of Planetary Researchers (Invited) (61380)
Brad E Bailey1, Brian Hamilton Day2, Joseph Minafra3 and Jennifer Baer1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)NASA, Washington, DC, United States
The Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School: Career and Research Benefits to Students and Mentors (62044)
Misa Cowee, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
FameLab: A Communication Skills-Building Program Disguised as an International Competition (75793)
Daniella Scalice, NASA Astrobiology Program, Mountain View, United States
Preparing Graduate Students for Solar System Science and Exploration Careers: Internships and Field Training Courses led by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (Invited) (76087)
Andrew J Shaner, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States and David A Kring, Universities Space Research Association Houston, Houston, TX, United States
On-the-job, real-time professional development for graduate students and early career scientists at the University of Hawaii (83172)
Barbara Cabezal Bruno1, Michele Guannel2, Elisha Wood-Charlson3, Anela Choy4, Johanna Wren3, Chantel Chang3, Rosie Alegado5, Sherril Leon Soon2, Heidi Needham2 and Carlie Wiener6, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, C-MORE/SOEST, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD, Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, (6)Schmidt Ocean Institute, Palo alto, CA, United States
Graduate Education in a Small Business Environment (Invited) (63412)
Edgar A Bering III1, Benjamin Longmier2 and Matthew Giambusso1, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

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