ED34A:
New Approaches to Professional and Career Development for Students and Postdocs in the Geosciences II

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Session ID#: 16510

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
Convener:  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:

Investigating Education and Immediate Career Paths of Master’s and Doctoral Graduates over the Past Few Decades (135168)
Carolyn E Wilson and Christopher M Keane, American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, VA, United States
A Geoscience Workforce Model for Non-Geoscience and Non-Traditional STEM Students (123707)
Janet Liou-Mark, CUNY New York City College of Technology, Mathematics, Brooklyn, NY, United States, Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, United States, Hamid Norouzi, CUNY New York City College of Technology, Civil Engineering Department, Brooklyn, NY, United States, Daniela Viviana Vladutescu, CUNY New York City College of Technology, Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department, Brooklyn, NY, United States and Laura Yuen-Lau, CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Career Options after an REU: Not just Grad School (166992)
Martin A Snow1, Claire L Raftery2, Erin L Wood1 and Mikki M Osterloo3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
An update from AGU about the Virtual Poster Showcase (157084)
Pranoti M. Asher, Harry Furukawa and Virgil Brown, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Training Graduate Teaching Assistants in the Geosciences: Our Practices vs. Perceived Needs (139871)
Rachel Teasdale, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, United States, Katherine Ryker, University of South Carolina Columbia, School of Earth Ocean and Environment, Columbia, United States and Kelsey S Bitting, Northeastern University, Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research, Boston, MA, United States
A new Model for the Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences Workshop (154226)
Lisa A Gilbert, Williams College, Williams-Mystic, Mystic, CT, United States, Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Lynsey LeMay, Thomas Nelson Community College, Geology, Hampton, VA, United States, David E Reed, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States, Ankur R Desai, University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States and Heather Macdonald, College of William & Mary, Geology, Williamsburg, VA, United States
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists: a model for experiential learning in professional development for students and early career researchers (133933)
Alice C Bradley, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, United States, Ruth S Hindshaw, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, Gerlis Fugmann, Association of Polar Early Career Scientist, Tromsø, Norway and Heather Mariash, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
Early Career Investigator Opportunities in Geophysics with IRIS (164607)
Harmony Colella, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Danielle F Sumy, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States and Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States

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