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Monthly Mentor Spotlight

Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Assistant Director of Administration and Operations for Geoscience Education

Our June 2017 “Mentor in the Spotlight” is Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page,  Assistant Director of Administration and Operations for Geoscience Education at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), COMET Program. Dr. Page has a passion for teaching weather forecasting techniques to operational meteorologists around the world. She works to connect information found through research in the geosciences and relay those findings to help people responsible for protecting lives through timely weather information improve their products and support. The COMET Program is a world-wide leader in support of education and training for the environmental sciences, delivering scientifically relevant and instructionally progressive products and services. The training materials we develop in the geosciences have far-reaching impact. Visit the COMET Program’s MetEd website to learn more! If you would like to get in contact with Dr. Page, just email Ilana and we’ll get you connected right away! 

Meet a Scientist

Dr. Laura Guertin, Professor of Earth Science, Penn State Brandywine
Emily Saunders, Graduate Student, Atmospheric Chemistry
Sarah A. Spaulding, Aquatic Ecologist with the US Geological Survey
Michelle Newcomer, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
Dr. Kate Brauman, Lead Scientist, Global Water Initiative, Univ of Minnesota
Dr. Corinne Wong, Assistant Professor, Environmental Isotope Geochemistry, Boston College
Dr. Danica Lombardozzi, Project Scientist in Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
Dr. Deanna Hence, Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Sciences, Univ of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

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The Network for Sustainable Climate Risk Management’s (SCRiM) is looking for Summer Scholars for 2016. They are currently accepting applications. This is an exciting opportunity … Read more

Resource highlights

Check out this nifty online resource for finding paid internships and entry-level jobs. A quick search for “Earth Science” internships in Colorado and North Carolina … Read more

How to (seriously) read a scientific paper… Someday you may need to read a slue of scientific papers, especially if you enter graduate school and/or … Read more

Numerous studies have illustrated that women are just has biased against female STEM students as men. Here is a nice infographic that summarizes how this … Read more

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