The ESA-Early Career Ecologists Section runs a Professional Development Webinar Series targeting technical skills, developing research and teaching careers, and navigating the hiring process.
If you are interested in receiving Zoom invites to the webinars, sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/5KaRWkemwlDSdnQK2 Upcoming webinars include: Careers in Science Policy and how to get involved no matter your current/future position - November 19th, 3pm EST with Jacob Carter of the Union of Concerned Scientists. To tune in click here: https://msu.zoom.us/j/935058476 Networking and working with Ecological Networks - December 5th hosted by Dr. Tom Bell of UCLA/UCSB Mentoring Practices - January 28th hosted by Dr. Amanda Hund & co-authors of a recent paper on mentoring in STEM (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ece3.4527) Project Management - February 26th hosted by Reilly Henson & Dr. Kelly Cobourn from Virginia Tech Careers in Community Colleges - March 15th hosted by Dr. Meeghan Gray of Truckee Meadows Community College All past/current webinars are recorded and archived here: https://vimeo.com/esaearlycareerecologist If you are interested in contributing, please contact the chair, Nate Emery at emery...@msu.edu We are an organization dedicated to meeting the needs of early career ecologists in the Ecological Society of America. “Early career” is broadly defined as any post-graduate individual who currently has less than 8 years of full-time employment in an ecology-related position, or otherwise self-identifies as early career. Such individuals may include postdoctoral researchers, assistant professors, lecturers, adjunct faculty members, and employees of government, non-profit, advocacy, university, and industrial scientific entities, though Section membership will be open to any member of the Society.The overall purpose of the Early Career Ecologist Section is to provide support to this sizeable demographic of the Society in the transitional period of their professional development (i.e. from student to professional). Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the job search process, tenure and promotion, non-academic career options, securing research funding, course development, and fulfilling committee and other service responsibilities. http://esa.org/earlycareer/
