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What Ph.D. Graduates Want Strategies for building successful interdisciplinary Careers. C. Susan Weiler Office for Earth System Studies Whitman College http://aslo.org/phd.html NSF OCE-0217056 NOAA NA16OP1435 ONR , NASA N00014-98-1-05. Notes in this font size and color were added - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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What Ph.D. Graduates Want Strategies for building successful
interdisciplinary Careers
C. Susan WeilerOffice for Earth System
StudiesWhitman College
http://aslo.org/phd.html
NSF OCE-0217056NOAA NA16OP1435
ONR, NASA N00014-98-1-05
Notes in this font size and color were added after the Ocean Sciences meeting
to make this presentation understandable without the oral presentation.
DIALOG Goals Interdisciplinary understanding
and collegial networks
Target • Aquatic-Science Ph.D. graduates • Biologically focused, 0 - 2 years post PhD. • Interdisciplinary research interests
Mechanism
• Symposia (40 - 43 invited participants) See http://aslo.org/phd.html for application instructions
• Electronic Resources
Lessons Learned from 8 DIALOG Symposia
1993 - 2005
Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of
Limnology and Oceanography
Communication is Key
Field A Field A
…not emphasized enough:
?Field A Field B,C,D…
Students
BeyondIvoryTowers
.
.
.
InterdisciplinaryThe key is to bring together faculty,
students and postdocs from many departments
SeminarsSHORT talks
Group projectsLunchesTGIF’s
InclusiveInteractive
Fun
OUTREACH
http://www.cosee.net/
Don’t reinvent the wheel: COSEE and other organizations & resources are available to help you get started. Be sure to checkScientific-society webpages.
Scientific Society pages
Outreach is a fabulous wayto enable students, post-docs and faculty to communicatewith colleagues across disciplines as well as beyond the IvoryTowers. Take it seriously, andchoose something you care about.
Team of Experts Vs
An Expert TeamAnyone who has sat through a faculty meeting knows these are not the same thing! We have the experts, let’s train this next generation to work more effectively as a team
Organization, Teamwork
Provide students and post-docswith opportunities to practice group/team skills.
And, give them some trainingto help them work togethermore effectively.
Townsend & DonovanThe Facilitator’s Pocketbook
TropmanMaking Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions
Robert’s Rules of Order
These books provide an easy way to get started. Read and discuss them with your students and post-docs -- then practice in small groups, alternating responsibilities.
400 B.C.
Hippocrates to Larson:4 types
20th Century
Jung8 types
Myers & Briggs16 types
Sanguine Melancholic
Phlegmatic Choleric
Nobody likes to be “typed” but let’s face it,from Hippocrates to Larson, we all do it to some degree. Training can enable us to understand ourselves, appreciate the differences in others, and work more effectively together than any of us can alone.
Laney The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
Berens et al. Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types in Organizations: Understanding Personality Differences in the Workplace
I have been using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It is the most frequently used indicator and has been used effectively for more than 50 years.
If you are a skeptic, and even if you aren’t, I recommend starting with a book called THE INTROVERT ADVANTAGE: Most of us accept these two basic types/preferences. These ARE preferences, as we use all of the types to some degree. Learning more about introversion/extroversion will help you ease into the other preferences (how we take in/process information, how we make decisions, and how these preferences interact with each other). Use a trained professional to help you identify and understand your individual type.
Mentors Needed
PROFESSIONAL SKILLSJobs
Lab Set upCollaborations
StudentsStaffPapersGrantsTeachingServiceTenure
Time Mgt.
Advisors/Mentors need to do more to prepare students, post-docs and new hires for the “business” side of research -- everything from getting a job to setting up a lab, hiring and managing staff, grants, time, teaching, etc. etc. Be sure everyone in your lab learns the necessary professional skills to succeed.
http://www.hhmi.org/grants/pdf/
labmgmt/book.pdf
DIALOG Resource Page
http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/resources/
This page contains resources developed for, and by, DIALOG and DISCCRS Symposium Scholars. They provide a useful complement to the book mentioned in the last slide.
Interdisciplinary Success
Common LanguageCollegial Spirit
Training
Register your Ph.D. dissertationNOW
http://aslo.org/phd.html
Once registered, you will be added to the
DIALOG/DISCCRS newsletterand receive updates on
Symposium dates, locations andApplication deadlines.
http://aslo.org/phd.html
DIALOG
NSF OCE-0217056Antarctic Biology and Medicine
Biological OceanographyEcosystem Studies
International Science & Engineering
NOAA NA16OP1435Coastal Ocean Program
National Sea Grant College Program
ONR N00014-98-1-05Ocean Optics & Biology Program
NASAOcean Biology & Biogeochemistry
Program
Special Thanks to
Maarten BoersmaAlfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine
Research
W. Monty GrahamDauphin Island Sea Lab
334 DIALOG Symposium Scholars
For sharing their insights and their efforts to help this next generation of scholars be the
best they can be.
14 Co-sponsoring SocietiesIn-kind Support, advertising, international
participants
ASLO American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
AFS American Fisheries SocietyAGU American Geophysical Union
ERF Estuarine Research Federation ESA Ecological Society of AmericaJSL Japanese Society of Limnology
NABS North American Benthological SocietyNALMS North American Lake Management Society
PSA Phycological Society of AmericaSIL International Society of LimnologySCL Society of Canadian LimnologistsOSJ Oceanographic Society of Japan
TOS The Oceanography Society WSN Western Society of Naturalists