ED44B:
Innovations in Interdisciplinary Ocean Leadership and Workforce Development for Early-Career Scientists Posters


Session ID#: 29798

Session Description:
If we prepare strong leaders who are effective at collaborative, interdisciplinary ocean problem solving, more successful solutions for issues facing the ocean are likely to be developed. In addition, as more and more early career ocean scientists are opting out of careers in academia, it is imperative that they have greater skill sets beyond research. Preparing these future ocean science leaders will entail:

  • Using best practices in STEM workforce development at the higher education level;
  • Increasing exposure to the variety of current and anticipated future ocean science careers and needed skills to attain them; and
  • Increasing access to experiential professional development opportunities that help build the technical and non-technical skills required in ocean science, policy, and resource management, both inside and outside of academia.

This session will look at the future of the ocean science workforce and will share innovative approaches, studies, projects, and programs that work to better prepare our future ocean science leaders as they plan for their careers. We invite presentations by individuals from federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions as well as private organizations and companies who can directly address in-demand skills, availability of student resources and effective employment pathways.

Primary Chair:  Laura H Good, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Monterey, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Todd Christenson, NOAA, Office of Education, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Stephanie Schroeder, University of Southern California, Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Andrea K Johnson, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
Moderators:  Stephanie Schroeder, University of Southern California, Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Laura H Good, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Monterey, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Laura H Good, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Monterey, CA, United States and Todd Christenson, NOAA, Office of Education, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]
6630 Workforce [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Preparing students to translate knowledge into action: The Training our Future Ocean Leaders program at the University of British Columbia (312163)
Simon D Donner and Dominika Ziemczonek, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Interdisciplinary Training of Early Career Scientists at Sea; Experiences on using the RV Polarstern as a teaching platform during the SMART/POGO North South Atlantic Training Transect (NoSoAT) (312963)
Peter L Croot, iCRAG (Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences), National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland, Peter Lemke, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany, Eva-Maria Brodte, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Helgoland, Germany, Pauhla McGrane, Strategic Marine Alliance for Research and Training (SMART), Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland and Karen Wiltshire, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, List/Sylt, Germany
Expanding the geoscience pipeline through innovative at-sea experiences (317511)
Sharon K Cooper, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Jonathan C Lewis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Geoscience, Indiana, PA, United States
Supporting early-career women through the Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) (319335)
Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Alexa R Sterling, University of Rhode Island, Cell and Molecular Biology, Kingston, RI, United States, Christina Hernandez, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Hilary I Palevsky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, School of Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Sophie N Chu, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Jillian Freese, University of Rhode Island, Biological Sciences, Narragansett, RI, United States
Coast Guard Academy: preparing ocean leaders through STEM education, experiential learning, and partnerships (322385)
Victoria Futch1, Karina L. Mrakovcich2 and Lucy Vlietstra2, (1)U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Department of Science, New London, United States, (2)U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Department of Science, New London, CT, United States
Developing and enhancing a university-level ocean science curriculum that supports ocean literacy for future ocean leaders (324328)
Alexander Parker1, Colin Dewey2, Steven Runyon1, Fred Reiman3, Katherine Sammler4 and Tamara Burback3, (1)CSU Maritime Academy, Sciences and Mathematics, Vallejo, CA, United States, (2)CSU Maritime Academy, Culture and Communication, Vallejo, CA, United States, (3)CSU Maritime Academy, Marine Transportation, Vallejo, CA, United States, (4)CSU Maritime Academy, Global Studies and Maritime Affairs, Vallejo, CA, United States
Connecting capable enthusiasm with meaningful opportunity through Stanford (325133)
Sierra Killian, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Examining the Professional Learning Needs of Emerging Environmental Leaders (326522)
Laura H Good, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Monterey, CA, United States and Stephanie Schroeder, University of Southern California, Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center: A model of Collaborative Programs for Training and Producing a Diverse Workforce in Marine and Fisheries Sciences (326816)
Paulinus Chigbu, NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, United States, Elizabeth Babcock, University of Miami - RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, Deidre Gibson, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, Dionne Hoskins-Brown, Savannah State University, Marine Science, Savannah, GA, United States, Rosemary Jagus, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science - IMET, Baltimore, MD, United States, Jessica Miller, Oregon State University, Portland, OR, United States and Stacy Smith, Delaware State University, Dover, DE, United States

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