Category Archives: Mentoring activities

Mentoring activities

Mentoring for students and faculty outside of Penn State University

Institutes/Panels/Workshops

    • National Science Foundation (NSF) Geoscience Ideas Lab, Leesburg, Virginia (March 3-7, 2014)
    • Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL)’s Summer Leadership Institute for STEM faculty, Crestone, Colorado (July 17-22, 2012)
    • Workshop co-organizer/co-leader, “Career Options in Academia: Paths Through Science” (w/E. Klemetti), AGU Professional Development Event at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (December 13, 2019)
    • Invited panelist for “Geoscience Career Exploration,” Student and Early Career Professional Workshop, Geological Society of America Section Meeting (March 2016, 2017); Invited panelist for National Meeting (October 2020)
    • Discussion leader, Women in Geology Career Pathways Mentor, Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, September 25, 2016
    • Invited panelist for session “Mid-Career Faculty: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities,” Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 6, 2008
  • Society of Women in Marine Science (SWMS) Mentoring Program, 2018-2019 (1 graduate student)
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU) Science Communication Mentoring Program, December 2015-2018 (3 graduate students)
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU) Undergraduate Mentoring Program, December 2015-2017 (1 student 2015, 1 student 2016)
  • Scientist pen pal for middle school girls as part of the Letters to a Pre-Scientist program, sharing four personal letters per year focused on careers in oceanography (2015-2018)

 

Penn State Undergraduate student mentoring

In my time at Penn State Brandywine (2001 thru Fall 2022), I have supervised 58 unique undergraduate students on 51 unique independent/group projects outside of course-based projects, with some students completing more than one project with me. I have mentored twenty-seven undergraduate students as lead/co-authors on publications (peer-reviewed journals to reviewed magazine articles for independent and course-based projects). Over 50 conference presentations have students as presenters and/or co-authors.

Publications with student lead/co-authors have included the Journal of Geoscience Education, Journal of Science Education and Technology, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, The Earth Scientist, The Pennsylvania Geographer, Honors in Practice, Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas.

From May 2005 to July 2014, I served as the honors thesis advisor for 8 Cooper and Schreyer Honors College scholars at Penn State Brandywine/Penn State University Park in the disciplines of environmental inquiry, STS (science, technology & society), information science & technology, and civic engagement. Selected thesis titles include:

  • Two Hundred Years of Discovery: Using Google Earth to Raise Awareness of Scientific Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
  • Message in a Bottle: Creating an Oceanographic Google Earth Tour Using Spreadsheet Mapper
  • Living Walls: Varieties, Benefits and Global Distribution
  • Educating Young Women About Water Science and Geoscience Careers

From January 2012 to May 2013, I supervised 7 students completing 8 internships under the Penn State Brandywine Laboratory for Civic Engagement (which I coordinated during this period). The internships focused on fair trade, communications, and the community.

 

Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Researcher Mentorship/Committees

Graduate student dissertation committee member
Lauren Haygood, Oklahoma State University (August 2022-present)

Post-doctoral researcher mentoring program
Dr. Claire Routledge, University of Kiel (Germany), through the via:mento-international program (a two-year program for female scientists that wish to pursue an academic career outside of Germany) (November 2022 – July 2024)

I have completed additional one-on-one mentoring for graduate students through these organizations:
• Society of Women in Marine Science (SWMS) Mentoring Program, 2018-2019 (1 graduate student)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) Science Communication Mentoring Program, December 2015-2018 (3 graduate students)