Programming for Graduate Students & Post-Docs

EER 2024 Recommended events geared toward students and post-docs attending the Career Prep workshop. These are just a few recommendations from the Career Prep leaders and is not an exhaustive list of possibilities. We invite you to review the program to find other events that may appeal to you!

Featured Events

Sunday

• Evening reception 6:30-8:00pm

Monday-Wednesday Morning Workshop (M-W, 8:30 - 11:30 am)

• Preparing for an Academic Career
• Innovative Tools for Project Managements in Academia

Thursday-Friday Morning Workshops (Th-F, 8:30 - 11:30 am)

• Getting the most out of your TA experience
• Developing Collaborative Operations Manuals for Research Groups

Afternoon Programming

Monday Afternoon Events

• Attend afternoon mini-workshops (1:30 - 4 pm)
  • LGBTQ+ Representation in the Geosciences...Showing Our Students That They Belong!
  • Guiding Students to Use Evidence to Support their Scientific Reasoning
  • Teaching Environmental Justice Through Geoscience
  • The Wow Factor: Cutting Rocks to Engage Students
  • Improving Food-Energy-Water-Nexus-based Education: Defining new research directions from problems of practice
• Or check out some of the contributed sessions! Talks are 1:30-3:30 pm and posters are 4:30-6:00 pm

Tuesday Afternoon Events

• Check out some of the Share-a-thon (1:30 - 2:40 pm) and Teaching Demonstrations (2:50 - 4:10 pm)
• Join in the Round Table Discussions (3:00 - 4:15 pm)
  • Getting Started in Geoscience Education Research (GER)
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Can we love our job while being squeezed under its weight?
  • Supporting Neurodivergent Students
  • Sustainability of Geosciences Departments: Looking to the Future
• Plenary (4:30 - 5:45 pm): The rocks don't care how you get there: Addressing inaccessibility in the Earth Sciences for a more inclusive discipline with Anita Marshall

Wednesday Afternoon Events

• Group photo before lunch!
• Attend afternoon mini-workshops (1:30 - 4 pm)
  • Environmental Ethics: Theory and practice
  • Sustainability: Intentional integration
  • Facilitating Effective Group Projects in Geoscience Courses
  • H5P Activities for Summative and Formative Assessment in Online and Web-Enhanced Courses
  • Pedagogies and Practices for Boosting Spatial Understanding of Fluid Earth
• Forum & Mid-week Icebreaker (4:30 - 5:45 pm)

Thursday Afternoon Events

• Attend afternoon mini-workshops (1:30 - 4 pm)
  • Developing Dispositions to Help Students Succeed in the Workforce
  • On the Air: Exploring air pollution sources
  • Making Sense of Your Course Evaluations
  • Conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Your Courses
  • Soil Science: Bridging Geology and Environmental Science in a Sustainable World
• Or check out some of the contributed sessions! Talks are 1:30-4pm
• Plenary (4:30 - 5:45 pm): Supporting meaningful collaborations in the classrooms of the future: What is the role of AI? with Monica Ko

Friday Afternoon Events

• Join in the Round Table Discussions (1:30 - 2:45 pm)
  • Online Introductory Geoscience Labs: Challenges and strategies to support engagement and learning
  • Diverse Geoscience Career Mentorship
• Check out some of the contributed sessions! Talks are 1:30-4pm
• Town Hall 4:30-5:45pm