[DIALOGnews] Call for Papers, Interdisciplinary Graduate and Post-Graduate Training

[Susan Weiler]

Dear Ocean Colleagues,

      We most cordially encourage you to submit an abstract to the  
following special session on interdisciplinary training for graduate  
students and recent PhD graduates planned for the upcoming AGU/ASLO/ 
TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting beiing held 20-24 February 2006 in  
Honolulu, Hawaii:
      Abstracts must be submitted by October 13 (postal mail  
deadline) or
October 20 (electronic submission deadline) at http://www.agu.org/ 
meetings/os06/.
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OS 002

The Right Stuff: Graduate and Post-Graduate Training for  
Interdisciplinary Research Careers

We tend to think of the PhD as the end of the educational cycle. Yet  
for many graduates, and especially those working on interdisciplinary  
questions, the roller coaster ride of professional training is far  
from over. After years of specialization, today’s graduates  
increasingly find themselves on a multidimensional trajectory that  
requires a breadth of knowledge sufficient to make connections  
between distant disciplines, and establishment of a global network of  
colleagues from divergent backgrounds. The historic divide between  
the natural and social sciences must often be bridged as well. On top  
of all this, work must increasingly be placed in a context relevant  
to and understandable by managers and policy makers.

How can we better prepare students and new professionals for these  
challenges? In this session we will take a top-down and bottom-up  
approach, requesting presentations by established faculty, program  
and institutional representatives and by students and recent  
graduates, who have developed or have suggestions concerning  
effective strategies to address these concerns at the graduate or  
post-doctoral level. We welcome papers from all institutions and  
countries describing institutional reform, long or short courses,  
symposia, seminars, workshops, professional-society activities,  
informal interactions and other means to address early-career  
development, communication across disciplines, working as part of an  
interdisciplinary or international team, and other topics related to  
work on complex environmental systems.

Co-Convenors:

C. Susan Weiler
Office for Earth System Studies
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA 99362
USA
509-527-5948
weiler at whitman.edu

Linda E. Duguay
University of Southern California
Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
Sea Grant Program
3616 Trousdale Parkway –AHF 209F
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0373
USA
213-821-1335
duguay at usc.edu

Susan B. Cook
Education Programs Office
Consortium for Oceanographic Research & Education (CORE)
1201 New York Avenue, Suite 420
Washington, DC 20005
USA
202-448-1223
scook at coreocean.org

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C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.
Office for Earth System Studies    Tel:   509-527-5948
Whitman College                          Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
    weiler at whitman.edu
    Programs for Recent PhDs                 http://aslo.org/phd.html
    DIALOG poster        http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
    DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf
   Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of
     Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduates in a
          Changing Global Environment
http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/

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