Pandemic Intensifies Inequities in STEM
If efforts to broaden participation in STEM are to succeed, we must acknowledge and address the institutional structures, policies, and cultures that continue to exclude.
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Rebecca
Bring me your tap water!
Can you spare 2 mL of tap water? Citizen Science + Isotopes + SPATIAL family = a project I want to help out with. The isotopes of water vary systematically across landscapes due to evaporation and precipitation processes. Given this, we can pretty easily distinguish water between Miami and Omaha …
Molecule Dances, #SciComm, #WomenInSTEM
Teaching EV128: Introduction to Global Climate Change is always great because i get seniors who are psychology and political science majors as well as the first years and sophomores who just starting the Environmental Science major. (Syllabus) I had a great group of students in Block 1 who learned the …
Adventures in Teaching Hydrology, Take 1
Teaching a new class is always hard – I am not quite sure how to describe teaching a new class on the block (as a reminder – 3.5 weeks, 18 days), but needless to say, it reminds me of just how difficult teaching is. Especially when you are teaching something …
a craving for elemental super heroes?!
Amy Burgin (KU), Rachel Gabor (OSU), Rose Smith (UU) and I are organizing a #biogeofeminist mixer Tuesday evening of this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Freshwater Science in Salt Lake City. Our hope is to bring together the biogeochemists who really like watery environs to help make our community …
Building Resilience: PROGRESS one-day workshops
Given the success of our PROGRESS program (Hernandez et al. 2018 Geosphere) we conducted a series of one day workshops in early Feb 2019 at Colorado State University and North Carolina A&T with supplemental funds from the National Science Foundation. Over the two weekends we ran five workshops – reaching …
