ED42A:
Innovations in Interdisciplinary Ocean Leadership and Workforce Development for Early-Career Scientists I


Session ID#: 37456

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:

ASLO 2018 Abstract. Innovations in Interdisciplinary Ocean Leadership & Workforce Development for Early Career Scientists. session ID# 29798. Presentation on How to get access to experiential professional development opportunities. (302632)
Teresa Davies, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
Individualized and Cohorted Professional Development Training for Graduate Students and Post-Docs: Research Basis, Implementation Successes and Challenges (307129)
Barbara Cabezal Bruno, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, Daniela Bottjer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Center for Teaching Excellence, Honolulu, HI, United States and Surely Wallace, University of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Honolulu, HI, United States
The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana (304591)
Brian K Arbic1, Augustus Addy-Lamptey2, Johnson Adjetey2, Lailah Gifty Akita3, Joseph K Ansong4, Kwasi Appeaning-Addo3, Aline Cotel5, Madeline Foster-Martinez6, Stephan Dixon Howden7, Winifred Johnson8, Brian Konecke9, Elizabeth B Kujawinski10, Edem Kyere-Yeboah3, Angela Lamptey3, Andrew Lucas11, Paige Martin1, Dimitris Menemenlis12, Jennifer Moskel13, Ebenezer S Nyadjro14, Elvis Nyarko15, Emily Shroyer16, Adam Charles Simon9, Senam Tsei2, Stephen Yeboa2, Lily Lisa Yevugah17 and Prosper Zigah18, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Regional Maritime University, Ghana, (3)University of Ghana, Ghana, (4)Univ of MI-Earth & Environ Sci, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (8)MIT/WHOI Joint Program, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (9)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (10)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (11)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (12)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (13)Oregon State University, United States, (14)University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States, (15)Regional Maritime University, Accra, Ghana, (16)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (17)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, (18)University of Minnesota, Water Resources Science and Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth, MN, United States
The Potential and Pain of Transdisciplinary Graduate Training for Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (314697)
Flaxen D.L. Conway and Lorenzo Ciannelli, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Using Research Experiences for Undergraduates Programs to Increase Diversity in the Ocean Sciences (320446)
Corey Garza, California State University Monterey Bay, School Of Natural Sciences, Seaside, CA, United States, Bridgette Clarkston, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada and Megan Bassett, California State University, Monterey Bay, CA, United States
The Environmental Innovation Clinic: A Transdisciplinary, Graduate Learning Experience to Train the Next Generation of Wicked Problem Solvers (315567)
Robert F Chen, Robyn Hannigan and Jennifer Bender, University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States

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