The Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PRYN) and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) propose to hold a one-day career development workshop on Sunday 12 December 2010, prior to the 2010 Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA.

The workshop will take place in the ARCUS Arctic Community Meeting Room - Sierra K of the San Francisco Marriott Marquis

This workshop will provide a great opportunity for young researchers working in the polar regions and the cryosphere to meet new colleagues and mentors, and develop skills not often taught during graduate education programs.

Topics of focus include, but are not limited to:

- Developing key messages about research projects

- Communicating research to various audiences (scientists in other disciplines, politicians, school children, media, the general public, etc.)

- Effective expressions and outreach methods in proposal writing
- Tips for what young researchers need to know to succeed in academic and research careers

The workshop will be limited to 30 participants and mentors will be invited to provide guidance and information to the participants. All plenary sessions will be recorded and archived on the APECS and PYRN websites, and used for career development courses being planned by the NSF ARCSS Thermokarst project and the McMurdo Dry Valley’s Long-term Ecological Research (LTER).

Biographies of the mentors are included on this webpage at the bottom of the page.

For more information, please contact the workshop organizers:

Kristin Timm, Anna Liljedahl, Anna M Wagner

This workshop is funded by the University of Alaska, the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, the Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS), and APECS.

 

Tentative Agenda

08:30 - 09:00	Continental Breakfast (Provided)
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome / Introduction - Kristin Timm, Workshop Organizing Committee, ARCUS - Larry Hinzman, International Arctic Research Center, Univeristy of Alaska - Fairbanks
09:15 - 10:00	Keynote Lecture: A Career in Academe; What Young Scientists Need to Know - Daniel J. Julius, Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Alaska Strategies, actions and behaviors that might be considered as younger scientists embark upon careers in academe.
10:00 - 10:30	Big Ideas and Bumper Stickers - Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, POLAR-PALOOZA, Passport to Knowledge Developing Key Messages and Advice on how to form Simple and Concrete Research Descriptions
10:30 - 11:00	Participant Introductions Participants practice communication strategies to introduce themselves and their research.
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00	NSF OPP Funding Guidelines – Broader Impacts - Erica Key, NSF Office of Polar Programs (TBC) Presenting grant writing tips including strategies for quality broader impacts
12:00 - 12:15	Strategies for Community Education and Outreach - Elena Sparrow, Director of Education and Outreach, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks A framework for education and public outreach and strategies for working with different stakeholders as well as citizen scientists.
12:15 - 12:30	So You Want to Affect Policy? - Bob Bindschadler, Chief Scientist, NASA Hydrospheric & Biospheric Sciences Laboratory Science (and Scientists) can, but too often the result turns out badly. Listen to one veteran’s ideas on what it takes to be successful.
12:30 - 12:45	Connecting with Educators and Classrooms - Lindsay Knippenberg, Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator, PolarTREC teacher 2009 How to connect with teachers and create a classroom visit students will remember.
12:45 - 13:00	Real Science, Real Scientists, Real Communication, Real Results - Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, Project Director for POLAR-PALOOZA, Passport to Knowledge Practical, easy and low-cost suggestions on communication tools and considerations for outreach from the field.
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch (Provided)
14:00 - 14:40	Breakout Sessions - Participants work further with mentors on developing concrete plans and skills related to their outreach goals.
14:40 - 15:20	Breakout Presentations Participants share their group work outcomes followed by group discussion.
15:20 - 15:40	Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:30	Mentor Panel Discussion (TBA) - Anna Liledahl, Moderator - Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University Senior polar professionals will share experiences and advice regarding their outreach experiences, followed by question and answers and open discussion.
16:30 - 17:00	Closing Keynote: Involving the Next Generation in Cryospheric Science -Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University 2010 Cryosphere Young Investigator Award Recipient Getting advising and mentoring experience during graduate school through participation in undergraduate and high school research programs.
17:00 - 17:15	Wrap up / Workshop Evaluation - Kristin Timm and Anna Wagner, Workshop Organizing Committee
	After the workshop, the group will proceed to AGU Registration and the Icebreaker with lots of ideas, energy, and new friends to talk with :)

Mentors

Hans-Peter Marshall - Boise State University
2010 Cryosphere Young Investigator Award Winner

I am a snow scientist and glaciologist who uses geophysics and engineering tools to study the cryosphere. A major focus of my research involves quantifying the spatial varaibility of the seasonal snowcover and its effect on remote sensing measurements, snow hydrology, and snow avalanches. Recent advances in technology have resulted in new rapid ground-based snow measurement methods, which I use to quantify snow properties at high spatial and temporal resolution. These measurements are used to test and improve snow models and microwave retrieval algorithms. My interests also include snow slope stability modeling, snow and ice mechanics, and melt water pathways in both snow and temperate ice.



Robert Bindschadler  - Chief Scientist, NASA Hydrospheric & Biospheric Sciences Laboratory

Dr. Robert Bindschadler’s career spanned more than 30 years at NASA where he retired in 2010 as the Chief Scientist of NASA’s Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory and a Senior Fellow of the Goddard Space Flight Center.  He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a past President of the International Glaciological Society.  He maintains an active interest in glaciers and ice sheets and has led 15 Antarctic field expeditions to study dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet.  During his NASA career, he has developed numerous unique applications of remote sensing data for glaciological research including measuring ice velocity and elevation using both visible and radar imagery, monitoring melt of the ice sheet by microwave emissions, and detecting changes in ice-sheet volume by repeat space-borne radar altimetry.  He has testified before Congress, briefed the U.S. Vice President, published over 140 scientific papers, including numerous review articles and is often quoted commenting on glaciological impacts of the climate on the world's ice sheets and glaciers.


Lindsay Knippenberg - Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator, PolarTREC Teacher 2009

Lindsay is currently an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator fellow in the NOAA Office of Education in Washington DC. She received her bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Michigan State University and her master’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Before becoming a fellow she was a high school Biology and Environmental Science teacher in St. Clair Shores, MI. As a teacher Lindsay strived to connect her students to the environment and community through service learning projects. As a result of her and her students’ efforts, they were awarded several local and national awards. In the austral spring of 2009, she had the incredible experience of accompanying the ICIBASE (Interdisciplinary Collaboration Investigating Biological Activity in a Subglacial Environment) team to the Dry Valleys of Antarctica as a PolarTREC teacher.


Geoffrey Haines-Stiles  - Project Director, POLAR-PALOOZA, Passport to Knowledge

Having studied History at Cambridge and Communications at the Annenberg School of Communications (U. Penn), Geoff Haines-Stiles was an admitted science "newbie" when hired as Senior Producer/Director on Carl Sagan's COSMOS on Space, Time and Life, which went on to win 3 Emmies and a Peabody Award for broadcast excellence. His background in the humanities, Geoff believes, has helped him function as an intermediary and honest broker between scientists and the public. He's always on the lookout for unique ways to communicate authentic research while remaining informative, accurate and entertaining. He produced and wrote several programs for NOVA, including "Is Anybody Out There?" with comedian Lily Tomlin, and directed "The Creation of the Universe" with Timothy Ferris, where the 8-member Advisory Board included four Nobel Laureates. More recently, he developed the LIVE FROM... series of electronic field trips, which included the first-ever interactive broadcasts from the South Pole, from an airborne astronomical observatory high in the stratosphere, and - again, for the first time - from the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Working with support from NSF, NASA and NOAA, his multimedia production group, PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE, has created educational modules for school districts and networks, broadcast programs for PBS, Discovery/Science Channel, CNN and NASA-TV, and taken some of America's leading scientists and engineers on the road with LIVE FROM MARS and POLAR-PALOOZA,
including appearances at National Geographic in Washington DC, and at the New York Times and AMNH in Manhattan. The latter project also involved researcher presentations on all seven continents from McMurdo to Oslo, and China, Brazil, Russia and Australia. Nearly 40 IPY-related video podcasts were produced and remain freely available online.


Elena Bautista Sparrow - Director of Education & Outreach for the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Dr. Elena Bautista Sparrow is Director of Education Outreach at the International Arctic Research Center and the Center for Global Change at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). She is also a Research Associate Professor of Soil Microbiology at the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, also at UAF. Her research interests are climate change, microbial ecology, nutrient cycling and science education. Elena has over 25 years research and more than 18 years teaching experience including science education for K-12 teachers. She is also the Director of the University of the Arctic IPY Education Coordination Office and the Alaska Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program that brings together scientists, pre-college teachers and their students in studying the Earth. Elena is the principal investigator of the NSF funded GLOBE Seasons and Biomes project that is an IPY Earth system science education project engaging students from all over the world in conducting local science investigations on their biomes while connecting globally. Additionally, she leads other science education programs in Alaska such as the Long Term Ecological Research Schoolyard Project, the Alaska Rural Research Partnership Education Outreach program of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and the GK-12 Teaching Alaskans Sharing Knowledge program.

Daniel J. Julius - Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of Alaska

Daniel J. Julius is the Vice President for Academic Affairs for the University of Alaska System and Professor in the College of Management, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He arrived in 2007 and brings over thirty years of experience in academic and research administration. Most recently he served as Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor at Benedictine University in Illinois. Prior to that he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California; Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor at the University of San Francisco; Assistant Vice Chancellor for Faculty and Staff Relations for the California State University System; Director of Personnel Services for the Vermont State College System; and Director of the Center for Higher Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a past president of the College and University Personnel Association and the Academy of Academic Personnel Administrators, and has been a Visiting Scholar or adjunct faculty member at the University of New Hampshire, University of Toronto, Stanford University, University of Hawaii, the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, the Sorbonne in France, the Universidad Católica San Antonio in Spain, Shanghai University and Shenyang University of Technology in the Peoples Republic of China. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals, has grant and contract administration experience with major federal and state agencies, and has written or co-authored approximately seventy articles and six books. He is a recipient of Fulbright and Kellogg Fellowships and has served on or led approximately ten accreditation teams. He holds an undergraduate degree in Humanities from The Ohio State University. His graduate and post graduate work in organizational behavior, industrial labor relations, and higher education was completed at Columbia and Stanford Universities.

Erika Key - Office of Polar Programs, US National Science Foundation

Erica Key is an associate Program Officer for Arctic System Science in the Office of Polar Programs at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Arctic System Science is one of seven programs within the Arctic Division at NSF, which work in concert to advance Arctic research, cyberinfrastructure, education, and observation. Erica joined NSF with an MSc and PhD in meteorology and physical oceanography from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School for Atmospheric and Marine Science. Her primary research focus has been on cloud radiative forcing, particularly in complex regimes such as the polar regions and areas with aerosol-laden atmospheres or complex oceanic surface features. This work has led her to conduct extensive field studies in each of the world's five oceans, including two IPY campaigns, one in the Arctic, and one in the Antarctic. She has been an invited researcher at the Centre d'etude des Environnements Terrestre et Planetaires (now Laboratoire Atmospheres, Milieux, Observations Spatiales), a member of the Arctic Icebreaker Coordinating Committee, and a mentor both at sea and on shore to graduate, undergraduate, and elementary students and K-12 science teachers.