Early Career Committee Seeks New Members

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Early Career Committee Seeks New Members

January 7, 2022 / Announcements, Opportunities /

The Early Career (EC) Committee of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) actively acknowledges the many challenges aquatic science researchers and professionals face in their early careers. ASLO supports early career professionals in many ways, in particular by benefiting from the rich knowledge of the ASLO community. Right now, we are looking for new committee members. If you (or your students) are interested in working with …

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Early Career Opportunity – Amplifying Voices: ECRs Making Waves in Aquatic Sciences

January 25, 2022 / Announcements, Science and Society /

The ASLO Early Career Committee is proud to announce the call for speakers for a new early career researcher (ECR) webinar series, “Amplifying Voices: ECRs making waves in aquatic sciences.” This series will focus on promoting the exciting work of early career aquatic scientists from underrepresented groups in our global community. We welcome all ECR members to apply to present novel research on any aspect of aquatic science, freshwater or …

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Online Conversations for Equity, Action, and Networking in Marine Sciences (OCEAN)

September 4, 2020 / Announcements, Science and Society / , ,

Guest post by Kelly Luis OCEAN is a webinar series committed to amplifying early-career Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) working in marine environments. OCEAN is a pilot initiative hosted by the School for the Environment Graduate Student Anti-Racism Taskforce at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and is funded by Woods Hole Sea Grant. The OCEAN webinar series invites early-career BIPOC in New England to present the fullness of their …

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My strategies for attending academic conferences as an ECR

October 16, 2019 / RCEF / ,

By Laura Falkenberg Ten years ago I attended my first ever international scientific conference. It was in my hometown and my supervisors had encouraged me to go – I arrived not really knowing what to expect. I spent the week feeling overwhelmed and slightly out of place, especially at the poster session where I presented my work. This year I went back to that same conference… for the 5th time! I …

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Early career peer reviewers should feel confident to evaluate big ideas

October 24, 2019 / RCEF /

By Laura J. Falkenberg As an Early Career Researcher (ECR), being invited to peer review is an important milestone. It shows that a journal Editor recognizes you as an expert, and believes that you can evaluate the work of others. But, once you’ve accepted the invitation to review, worry can creep in – you might ask yourself if you actually know enough to be reviewing the paper? Are you qualified …

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L&O Bulletin Chapter One Challenge: Call for Papers

October 16, 2019 / Publications / ,

Still haven’t published that first chapter of your dissertation that you worked so hard on? Eager to let your peers in those “other” sub disciplines of aquatic science know why what you study is so important, novel, and cutting-edge? Well here’s your chance! The editors of the L&O Bulletin invite you to submit a one paragraph summary of your first chapter (or whichever chapter is a review of your field!) and tell …

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Interacting with editors at academic conferences: tips for early career researchers

October 16, 2019 / RCEF /

By Laura J. Falkenberg As the Raelyn Cole Editorial Fellow, one thing I have learnt from talking with journal editors is that they are often open to helping authors, particularly those early in their careers, develop ideas and manuscripts for publication. A key opportunity many researchers have to interact with journal editors is at scientific meetings. Journal editors can, however, be intimidating figures difficult for early career researchers to approach …

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The ASLO-Wiley Strategy Day – an Early Career Researcher (ECR) perspective

October 24, 2019 / RCEF / ,

By Laura J. Falkenberg As the inaugural Raelyn Cole Editorial Fellow with ASLO I recently had an opportunity to get a glimpse behind the scenes of academic publishing at the ASLO-Wiley Strategy Day. For context, the Strategy Day is an annual meeting of representatives from ASLO and its journals (ASLO President, Executive Director, Communications Director, as well as the Editor/Deputy Editor in Chiefs of many of the Limnology and Oceanography journals), and the publisher …

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