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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

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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

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Notes in this font size and color were added after the Ocean Sciences meeting

to make this presentation understandable without the oral presentation.

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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

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Lessons Learned from 8 DIALOG Symposia

1993 - 2005

Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of

Limnology and Oceanography

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Communication is Key

Field A Field A

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…not emphasized enough:

?Field A Field B,C,D…

Students

BeyondIvoryTowers

.

.

.

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InterdisciplinaryThe key is to bring together faculty,

students and postdocs from many departments

SeminarsSHORT talks

Group projectsLunchesTGIF’s

InclusiveInteractive

Fun

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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.

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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

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Organization, Teamwork

Provide students and post-docswith opportunities to practice group/team skills.

And, give them some trainingto help them work togethermore effectively.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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http://www.hhmi.org/grants/pdf/

labmgmt/book.pdf

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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.

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Interdisciplinary Success

Common LanguageCollegial Spirit

Training

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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

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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

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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.

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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