HR: 0800h
AN: ED11B-0474    [Abstracts]
TI: The Benefits of Peer-to-Peer Mentoring: Lessons from The Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN)
AU: * Holloway, T
EM: taholloway@wisc.edu
AF: SAGE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1710 University Ave., Madison, WI 53726, United States
AU: Steiner, A
EM: alsteiner@umich.edu
AF: AOSS, University of Michigan, Space Research Building 2455 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143, United States
AU: Fiore, A
EM: Arlene.Fiore@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, 201 Forrestal Rd., Princeton, NJ 08542- 0308, United States
AU: Hastings, M
EM: mhasting@atmos.washington.edu
AF: University of Washington, Box 355351, OSB 227, Seattle, WA 98195-7940, United States
AU: McKinley, G
EM: galen@aos.wisc.edu
AF: AOS, University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1225 W. Dayton Street, Room 1511, Madison, WI 53706, United States
AU: Staudt, A
EM: staudta@nwf.org
AF: National Wildlife Federation, 11100 Wildlife Center Drive, Reston, VA 20190-5362, United States
AU: Wiedinmyer, C
EM: christin@ucar.edu
AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305, United States
AB: The Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN) is a grassroots organization that began with the meeting of six women graduate students and recent Ph.D.s at the Spring 2002 AGU meeting in Washington, DC. Since then, the group has grown to over 400 members, completely by word of mouth. We provide an informal, peer-to-peer network developed to promote and support careers of women in the Earth sciences. Through the network, women have found jobs, established research collaborations, shared strategies on work/life balance, and built a community stretching around the world. We maintain an email list for members to develop an expanded peer network outside of their own institution, and we have recently launched a co-ed jobs list to benefit the wider geoscience community. We will present a summary of strategies that have been discussed by group members on how to transition to a new faculty position, build a research group, develop new research collaborations, and balance career and family.
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 0855 Diversity
DE: 6630 Workforce
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting