ED13D:
Current Thinking on the Value and Best Practices of Mentoring Posters


Session ID#: 8781

Session Description:
One of the key factors cited as impacting individual career success is having a positive relationship with a mentor or mentors. This is particularly true for those who are minorities in the workplace, who might experience isolation, subcultural differences, or low self-efficacy or a lack of belief in one's own abilities. In this session, presenters will examine the rationale and impact of mentoring, the differences between advising and mentoring, and models of mentoring that do and don’t work well. Topics may also include preparing mentors for their role, mentoring on soft professional skills like networking and communicating, or dealing with difficult situations. The session will focus on best practices and lessons learned on mentoring, including what has been learned from research on mentoring, with the aim of increasing awareness about the value of and understanding of best practices for effective mentoring.
Primary Convener:  Meredith Galanter Hastings, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, RI, United States
Conveners:  Valerie Sloan, UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Bethany Holm Adamec, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Meredith Galanter Hastings, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, RI, United States
Chairs:  Valerie Sloan, NCAR|UCAR, Education & Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States and Meredith Galanter Hastings, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, RI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bethany Holm Adamec, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Mentoring Faculty: Results from National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE Program (Invited) (64769)
Mary Anne Holmes, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
The Earth Science Women's Network: The Principles That Guide Our Mentoring (Invited) (76706)
Manda S Adams, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States; UNC-Charlotte-Geo & Earth Scie, Charlotte, NC, United States, Allison L Steiner, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Christine Wiedinmyer, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
New Program for New Faculty Mentoring at California State University, Chico (75681)
Rachel Teasdale1, Kate McCarthy2, Celina Phillips2, Kathryn Silliman2, Christian Fosen2 and Matthew Thomas2, (1)National Science Foundation, Alexandria, United States, (2)California State University Chico, Chico, CA, United States
Strengthening Self-efficacy through Supportive Mentoring (Invited) (60073)
Rebecca Haacker, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early Career Development, Boulder, CO, United States
Best Practices in Mentoring in NOAA Scholarship Programs (67370)
Marlene Kaplan, NOAA Washington DC, Office of Education, Washington, DC, United States, Sandra Sarvis and Victoria Dancy
A Mentee and his Mentor Speak their Minds (66483)
Carl-Georg Bank and Konstantinos Sacha Papadimitrios, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Mentoring Undergraduate Students in Estuarine Research Experiences: Different Strokes for Different Folks (Invited) (68405)
Fredrika C Moser1, Mike R. Allen1, Ruby A. Montoya-Ospina2, Pedro Maldonado3, Maria Barberena-Arias4, Carlo Olivo-Delgado5, Lora Harris6, James J Pierson7 and Juan Pablo Alvarez7, (1)Maryland Sea Grant College, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Interamericana, San Juan, PR, United States, (3)Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, PR, United States, (4)Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, PR, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States, (7)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States
Multilevel approach to mentoring in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs (84002)
Katerina Dontsova1, Kevin E Bonine2, Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman3, Brian Paavo4, DaNel Hogan5, Erica Oberg4 and Justin Gay4, (1)University of Arizona, Environmental Science and Biosphere 2, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Environmental Science and Technology, College Park, United States, (4)California Polytechnic State University, STAR Program, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, (5)Office of the Pima County School Superintendent, Tucson, AZ, United States
The Transformative Impact of Undergraduate Research Mentoring on Students and the Role of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) in Supporting Faculty Mentors (84650)
Lydia K Fox, University of the Pacific, Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stockton, CA, United States and Jill Singer, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY, United States

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