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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: science education
It's Earth Science Week, and this year's theme is Understanding Climate. So it's the perfect time to share some cool videos of women earth scientists and how they are working to improve the diversity and representation of women in atmospheric...
Posted by SciWo at 8:29 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: diversity matters
After tropical forests are cleared for agriculture and then abandoned, secondary forests regrow on the site. But how do plant species composition, biomass and soil organic matter differ through this succession of primary forest, pasture, and secondary forest? Employing...
Posted by SciWo at 10:01 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: books
In support of our on-going DonorsChoose challenge, this month Minnow and I will be exploring science-related books for SciWo's storytime. I have to admit, I'm enjoying the challenge of finding sciencey books appropriate for a 2.5 year old's attention span....
Posted by SciWo at 7:19 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: blogging
While I'm working on my course design stuff, please help some of my lovely bloggy friends conduct some research on how women geoscientists use blogs. Over the past several years, the geoscience blogosphere has blossomed so much that this fall,...
Posted by SciWo at 12:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: women in society
After the weekend, I'll be back with a follow up to the post on my progress towards tenure, and I'll try to address some of the substantive and thought-provoking comments that you all have raised. But, here in the States,...
Posted by SciWo at 4:20 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: blogging
Retweeting Zuska: Kim at All of My Faults Are Stress Related asks: I've got a question for women readers, especially those in the geosciences, environmental sciences, or field sciences: what do you get out of reading blogs? And if you...
Posted by SciWo at 6:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: blogging
Fantastic volcano blogger, and all around cool guy, Erik Klemetti has put out a call for volcano pictures that he can use on his Eruptions blog. I'd love to be able to send him some fantastic shot of a plinian...
Posted by SciWo at 7:49 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: environment
Let me now sing the praises of NASA's Earth Observatory, a phenomenal web-based public education resource that is celebrating its 10th birthday today. Every day for the past decade, NASA has been uploading spectacular remote sensing images and astronaut photographs...
Posted by SciWo at 12:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: blogging
Thumbing a nose at Bobby Jindal, we enthusiastically welcome ScienceBlogs newest addition, Eruptions, written by Erik Klemetti. Erik is a post-doc in igneous petrology, which means he studies how the rocks under volcanoes work. Near daily ]posts on Eruptions profile...
Posted by SciWo at 10:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: geoscience
I've been to another workshop presented by the same group and I highly recommend them. Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences: A Workshop for Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Fellows July 16-July 19, 2009 University of Nevada, Las Vegas...
Posted by SciWo at 10:07 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
