[DIALOGnews] NSF Geoscience Directorate posts guidelines for postdoctoral and graduate student training

[Sue Weiler's Whitman Acct]

Dear all,

The NSF Geoscience Directorate has just posted some guidelines for  
principal investigators (PI's) concerning professional development  
training for postdocs and graduate students.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06038/nsf06038.jsp

These are great guidelines to follow even if you are not supported by  
NSF Geoscience. If you are on a post-doc, you could show this  
document to your advisor/mentor and ask for professional-development  
help if it is not already being provided. And, If you are now in a  
position to have graduate students and post-docs of your own, read  
the recommended workshop reports and visit the websites listed as  
resources to help you become a better mentor.

I thought you all might be interested in this, as it  
"institutionalizes" a  lot of the sorts of training that has gone on  
at DIALOG symposia. I'm pleased to see that the DIALOG/DISCCRS  
webpage on "Resources for Early-Career Development" is listed as one  
of three resource sites in the document:
http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/resources/
      I thank all the past DIALOG and DISCCRS symposium participants  
who have contributed to these resources!

Best, Sue

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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
       http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/
DIALOG poster        http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
DISCCRS poster      http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf



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