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Brown Bag lunch with Dr. Jesse Reimink: Feb 10 @ noon

We’re going to have our first brown bag of the semester next Wednesday (2/10) at high noon! We’ll be hosting our very own Dr. Jesse Reimink, who does science outreach as a co-host of a podcast called Planet Geo which launched last fall. We aim to discuss science outreach and communications with Jesse, as well as what it’s like to contribute to a podcast.

Planet Geo Ep 5 (can also be found on Spotify):
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1237277/5541907

Blog Article:
https://blog.bakerinstitute.org/2020/12/15/lessons-from-2020-to-avoid-future-disasters-improve-science-communication/
If you’d like to come, you can prepare by checking out a blog article on science communication as well as a recent episode of Planet Geo, both linked above. Jesse has emphasized that these materials don’t represent expert advice, but are an opinion-based springboard for our discussion.

We hope to see you there!

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion: November 11 @ noon

    We are hosting a virtual brown bag lunch discussion this Wednesday (11/18) at 12pm, accessible through this Zoom link. Our brown bag series has typically been an opportunity for members of the department to lead informal discussions on various societal or institutional issues in the geosciences or broader academia, and is open for all students, staff, researchers, and faculty to participate.

 

    This week, Julia Carr and Ben Barnes will be revisiting the topic of accessibility in conferences, and framing the discussion around how virtual conferences this year have handled the new format, and what aspects of virtual conferences could be repeated following the quarantine to boost accessibility. We will anchor this discussion primarily in two recent articles: Sohn’s interviews in Nature which highlight the aspects of in-person scientific conferences that limit accessibility to many attendees, and Bailey’s recent GSA Today article enumerating the positive aspects of virtual conference formats during lockdown.

 

    In addition to these articles, you may be interested to hear more perspectives on conference accessibility: we have attached links to many resources below which give excellent advice for presenting talks and posters effectively and conscientiously.

 

All are welcome to join in our discussion this Wednesday! We look forward to seeing you there,

 

Thanks!
Julia and Ben

 

Talks:
Posters:
Both:
  • Stay color-blind friendly! Why should we care? Resources for figuring it out:
  • Viz Palette — want to see what your color scheme looks like in line, area, scatter plots, words, on different backgrounds, and check for color blindness all at once? Integrates with Chroma.js and other great color resources, and auto-generates hex color codes for your scripts. I think this is the best tool out there, and I use it all the time.
  • Paletton –have no idea where to start? Find logical combos based on color theory & export all the color tables. Good for categorical data.
  • Chroma.js Color Palette Helper — need to create perceptually uniform color gradients (sequential or diverging)?  Also auto-generates hex color codes to put into your scripts

Brown Bag lunch discussion on being a grad student during COVID19

Brown bag lunch discussion o’clock. COVID can’t stop us from having engaging conversations about the world around us, so we will continue the tradition but virtually.  For those not familiar: Brown Bag lunch discussions are a time to talk with fellow grad students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, post-docs (whoever shows up, honestly) about all the life things that shape us as grad students, as a community, humans, etc. On the docket for discussion: I’d like to talk about “being a grad-student during COVID-19.” Beloware two links to make you think: 1) a science article about some COVID workarounds, and 2) a CE&N (chemical and engineering news) interviewing a bunch of graduate students and their experiences with COVID and grad school.
Example questions you may have after reading these articles, or just in general 1) How are grad students holding up? 2) What’s it like being a first year student during the pandemic? 3) What are you strategies for stress relief? 4) How are you able to focus on your work when you have a cat sitting beside you? 5) What can the grad school do to help?
To note: I personally don’t have any answers, but talking it out is the best way to get answers!
Above are merely some example questions, so feel free to bring your own thoughts, feelings, questions, comments, concerns, or even other literature! I’d love to talk with you, and have a great discussion. And if anyone has an immediate answer to question 4, please email me.
this FRIDAY 09/25/2020 a 12:00PM on ZOOM
Brown bags not required.
See you there!

Brown Bag Lunch, Wednesday October 16th at 12 PM

We would like to invite you to another AWG-hosted brown bag lunch discussion on Wednesday (10/16) at 12pm in Deike 541. Julia Carr will lead a discussion on accessibility in the geosciences, particularly with regards to issues surrounding invisible illnesses.

To focus the discussion, we have selected a few articles that show lived experiences in the geosciences with suggestions for improvement. First, two blog posts written by Gabi Seratto Marks, a Ph.D. student in geoscience at MIT, which relate her experiences attending conferences while chronically ill and her advice for future conference organizers. In addition, we will discuss a blog post by Dr. Anita Marshall about her experience navigating field science after a near-fatal injury.

We hope to use these posts to launch our discussion around accessibility in our daily lives as geoscientists from the classroom to traveling for field trips, conferences, and more, and thinking about different ways we can incorporate accessibility best practices into our teaching and work.

Hope to see you there!

Conferencing while chronically ill: https://medium.com/@gsm/conferencing-while-chronically-ill-190664c9a4cd

How to make professional conferences more accessible for disabled people, by Gabi Seratto Marks: https://medium.com/@gsm/how-to-make-professional-conferences-more-accessible-for-disabled-people-6a15ea2e0b5a

 

Moving forward: Overcoming our ideas about disability in the Geosciences, by Dr. Anita Marshall: https://speakingofgeoscience.org/2018/10/08/moving-forward-overcoming-our-ideas-about-disability-in-the-geosciences/