ED31A:
New Approaches to Professional and Career Development for Students and Postdocs in the Geosciences I Posters

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Session ID#: 13371

Session Description:
Best practices for student and postdoc training recognize that young scientists need to have exposure to career paths, and to acquire non-technical skills that prepare them for future careers. These skills include written and oral communication, leadership, teamwork, mentoring, grant-writing, managing, and diplomacy. Students and post-docs also need support in preparing application materials for graduate school and employment. Studies suggest that professional development activities lead to higher confidence in applying for graduate school or positions in the workforce, increased research productivity, better relationships with advisors, fewer conflicts, and higher job satisfaction. This session will present and discuss what faculty and mentoring programs do in this arena to increase students’ understanding of the non-research skills that are vital to a successful career in the sciences, academia, research and industry. Papers that present novel approaches and research on impact of these strategies are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Valerie Sloan, NCAR|UCAR, Education & Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Valerie Sloan, NCAR|UCAR, Education & Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States and Rebecca Haacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early Career Development, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Rebecca Haacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early Career Development, Boulder, CO, United States and Valerie Sloan, NCAR|UCAR, Education & Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Valerie Sloan, NCAR|UCAR, Education & Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Mentoring the Next Generation of Science Gateway Developers and Users (195001)
Linda B Hayden and Farrah Jackson-Ward, Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC, United States
Strategies for exposing students to potential careers in the geosciences and preparing them with skillsets valued by today’s workforce: a case study (165701)
Valerie Sloan, NCAR|UCAR, Education & Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States and Rebecca Haacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early Career Development, Boulder, CO, United States
Student Workshops for Severe Weather Warning Decision Making using AWIPS-2 at the University of Oklahoma (160066)
Alexander B Zwink1, Dale Morris1, Phillip J. Ware1, Sean Ernst2, Ben Holcomb2, Shawn Riley2, Jill Hardy1, Stephen Mullens1, Michael Bowlan1, Clark Payne1, Alyssa Bates1 and Brett Williams1, (1)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Warning Decision Training Division/OCLO of the National Weather Service, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorolgy, Norman, OK, United States
Professional Development For Community College Faculty: Lessons Learned From Intentional Mentoring Workshops (164270)
Aisha R. Morris, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Donna J Charlevoix, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Education and Community Engagement, Boulder, CO, United States
Professional Development for Graduate Students through Internships at Federal Labs: an NSF/USGS Collaboration (162751)
Eleanour Snow1, Erick Jones2, Lina C Patino3, Elizabeth Wasserman4, Alexandra Isern5 and Teresa Davies2, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Science Quality and Integrity, Reston VA, United States, (2)National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, (3)National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Youth and Education in Science, Reston, VA, United States, (5)U.S. National Science Foundation, Alexandria, United States
Interactive and Hands-on Methods for Professional Development of Undergraduate Researchers (190419)
Shelley N Pressley and Jennifer E LeBeau, Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA, United States
Building the Next Generation of Earth Scientists: the Deep Carbon Observatory Early Career Scientist Workshops (176485)
Katie Pratt, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Jonathan Fellowes, University of Manchester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom, Donato Giovannelli, Earth-Life Science Institute, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan and Vincenzo Stagno, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
'Ike Wai Professional Development Model for Students and Post-docs (153592)
Barbara Cabezal Bruno, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States

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