<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Dear all, </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The NSF Geoscience Directorate has just posted some guidelines for principal investigators (PI's) concerning professional development training for postdocs and graduate students.</FONT></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06038/nsf06038.jsp"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06038/nsf06038.jsp</FONT></A></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">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.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">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:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><A href="http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/resources/">http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/resources/</A></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> I thank all the past DIALOG and DISCCRS symposium participants who have contributed to these resources!</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Best, Sue</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">**********</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Office for Earth System Studies Tel: 509-527-5948 </FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Whitman College </FONT></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Fax: 509-527-5961</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Walla Walla, WA 99362</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><A href="mailto:weiler@whitman.edu">weiler@whitman.edu</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Programs for Recent PhDs </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><A href="http://aslo.org/phd.html">http://aslo.org/phd.html</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><A href="http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/">http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"></FONT></SPAN></FONT> <P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">DIALOG poster <A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf</A> </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">DISCCRS poster <A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf</A> </FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"> </FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"> </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica"> </FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>