Speakers will address their path into the private sector, the nature of the work in their current position as well as the range of positions available in their field, and the skills and experiences that can best prepare a student interested in a similar career pathway.
This webinar will review the range and evolution of skills necessary to prepare students, within the ocean sciences, for academic employment in the 21st century. Learn more about ocean technologies, ICT (big data), diverse engineering (renewable energy, aquaculture), social sciences (e.g. Coastal & Marine Spatial Planning), resource economics and their role in the academic forum.
Modeled after NSF’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, COSEE Florida’s Research Experience for Pre-Service Teachers (REPT) project is an educationally valuable capstone element within the Bachelor’s Degree in Middle Grades Science Education with a Concentration in Ocean Science at Indian River State College (IRSC). In summer 2011, junior and senior level science education majors conducted research with mentors from three local marine research organizations, produced a scientific poster and crafted an educational multi-media presentation.
To increase diversity in one influential science community, a consortium of public and private institutions created the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program, or PEP, in 2008. Aimed at college juniors and seniors with some course work in marine and/or environmental sciences, PEP is a four-week course and a six-to-eight-week individual research project under the guidance of a research mentor. Forty-seven students have participated to date. Investigators from the science institutions serve as course faculty and research mentors.
The Association of Polar Early Careers Scientists (APECS) is an organization for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early career faculty members and educators with interests in Polar Regions. APECS developed during the 4th International Polar Year (IPY 2007-2008) with the primary objectives of stimulating interdisciplinary and international research collaboration and developing effective future leaders in polar research, education and outreach.
Four COSEE Centers - Ocean Systems, West, Networked Ocean World, and California - held concept mapping collaborative workshops to help scientists mentor graduate students to improve their teaching and research. Formative and summative evaluation results indicate that the workshops promoted more peer to peer interactions between faculty and graduate students and more familiarity with Ocean Literacy and Climate Literacy principles.
