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Subject: Call for Papers, Interdisciplinary Graduate and Post-Graduate Training

We most cordially encourage you to submit an abstract to the following special session on interdisciplinary training for graduate students and recent PhD graduates planned for the upcoming AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting beiing held 20-24 February 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii: Abstracts must be submitted by October 13 (postal mail deadline) or October 20 (electronic submission deadline) at http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/.
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OS 002 The Right Stuff: Graduate and Post-Graduate Training for Interdisciplinary Research Careers
We tend to think of the PhD as the end of the educational cycle. Yet for many graduates, and especially those working on interdisciplinary questions, the roller coaster ride of professional training is far from over. After years of specialization, today’s graduates increasingly find themselves on a multidimensional trajectory that requires a breadth of knowledge sufficient to make connections between distant disciplines, and establishment of a global network of colleagues from divergent backgrounds. The historic divide between the natural and social sciences must often be bridged as well. On top of all this, work must increasingly be placed in a context relevant to and understandable by managers and policy makers. How can we better prepare students and new professionals for these challenges? In this session we will take a top-down and bottom-up approach, requesting presentations by established faculty, program and institutional representatives and by students and recent graduates, who have developed or have suggestions concerning effective strategies to address these concerns at the graduate or post-doctoral level.

We welcome papers from all institutions and countries describing institutional reform, long or short courses, symposia, seminars, workshops, professional-society activities, informal interactions and other means to address early-career development, communication across disciplines, working as part of an interdisciplinary or international team, and other topics related to work on complex environmental systems.
Co-Convenors:
C. Susan Weiler
Office for Earth System Studies
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA 99362 USA
509-527-5948
weiler@whitman.edu

Linda E. Duguay
University of Southern California
Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
Sea Grant Program
3616 Trousdale Parkway –AHF 209F
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0373 USA
213-821-1335
duguay@usc.edu

Susan B. Cook
Education Programs Office
Consortium for Oceanographic Research & Education (CORE)
1201 New York Avenue, Suite 420
Washington, DC 20005 USA
202-448-1223
scook@coreocean.org

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