Leader Profile Submission Form

Each year we ask the leaders of the Early Career Geoscience Faculty workshop to describe your own careers for the benefit of workshop participants. Your answers to these questions will be posted on a webpage on the workshop website.

Participants in the workshop are faculty members in their first five years of full-time teaching. They tend to be quite curious about how to be effective teachers, launch successful research programs, and prepare themselves to apply for tenure, while still maintaining some semblance of balance in their lives. Please answer the following questions with that audience in mind. You are, of course, welcome to skip any question you do not wish to answer publicly.

Please keep in mind that this form must be completed in a single session because leaving the page erases the data. It is also not possible to submit a partially completed form and return to it. You may find it easier to compose your answers in a separate document and copy and paste them into this form.

Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences and advice!

Your Name:

Name of Institution:

How would you categorize your institution? (e.g. 2-year college, liberal arts college, private research university,...)

Briefly describe your educational background and career path.

What were some of the challenges you faced in your early years of full-time teaching? Could you briefly describe how you overcame one of those challenges?

How did you make the transition from your Ph.D. research to your current research program? (You could answer this EITHER in terms of how you moved beyond your dissertation research to related questions, or in terms of more logistical issues, such as how you set up your lab, work with your students, etc.)

An essential component of achieving tenure is finding or making an alignment of your teaching/research goals with the goals of your institution.... How do your goals fit with those of your institution? Did you adjust your goals to achieve that fit? If so, how?

Many of the new faculty members in these workshops are interested in maintaining a modicum of balance while getting their careers off to a strong start. Please share a strategy or strategies that have helped you to balance teaching, research, and your other work responsibilities, OR balance work responsibilities with finding time for your personal life.

What advice do you have for faculty beginning academic careers in geoscience? What do you know now that you wish you had known as you started your career in academia?

Please upload a photo of yourself for your profile page.

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