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Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue University. She blogs at the intersection of women's studies and engineering, a pretty empty space but with potential to grow. She wants to be a feminist-but-tenured professor when she grows up.
SciWo is an assistant professor of geosciences. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found here.
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Category: in the field
I'm preparing material for this week's class on experimental design and data analysis, and I ran across this paragraph which I thought was very interesting: "The cost of analyzing collected sediment samples usually exceeds that of collecting them. However, the...
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Category: in the field
A loyal reader of the blog sent me a copy of an article in the spring edition of the LTER Network News. In the article (pdf here), Laura Gough discusses how her research at the Toolik Lake field site in...
Posted by SciWo at 11:21 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: in the field
Let me start by saying that I love my upper-level undergraduate students. They are engaged, enthusiastic, willing to try anything, hard-working, and asking great questions. I have near perfect attendance in my class, and when a student misses class, I...
Posted by SciWo at 8:08 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: in the field
A semi-coherent point-by-point reply to the nearly incoherent, yet overwhelmingly disturbing, musings of Greg Laden on the subject of women scientists in the field. SIWOTI alert. If you don't understand why many of us get so riled up by Greg...
Posted by SciWo at 9:49 AM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: women in science
For those of you who liked my footwear selection, you may be interested in knowing about Red Ants Pants. They claim to be "the first ever company dedicated to manufacturing workwear for women" and it is a small woman owned...
Posted by SciWo at 12:47 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: in the field
Dr. Isis has issued quite the challenge with her prompt for the December Scientiae. I knew exactly how I wanted to respond. My science is hotter than Dr. Isis's Naughty Monkeys, because I wear better shoes [when I do my...
Posted by SciWo at 6:30 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: in the field
Well, my data collecting trip could have gone better. Besides the 2" of snow, and the fact one participant had to bow out (hopefully to be rescheduled soon), I discovered that one of my participants was not actually at the...
Posted by Alice at 12:06 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: in the field
I'm back at the ranch of the Aged Parents, and preparing to COLLECT REAL DATA tomorrow. It may be that it is supposed to snow 1.5" tomorrow and I have to drive 4 hours, it may be that one of...
Posted by Alice at 7:31 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: in the field
Hat tip to a reader who pointed me at this recent Chronicle article by two women scientists who tell their stories of bringing their infants along to their field research sites. And pretty hardcore stuff too. Two months in the...
Posted by SciWo at 7:52 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: in the field
Earlier this week, I thought that it would be a great idea to nip over to a local field site and get some work done. Wednesday seemed like the perfect day. The mere fact that I am only now getting...
Posted by SciWo at 9:39 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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