tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25632895618720460402024-03-14T01:19:13.015-07:00Sabbatical in Belfast, N. Ireland 2013-2014Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-52864091568334476452016-09-16T11:37:00.002-07:002016-10-26T11:54:37.372-07:00Sabbatical "Full Circle"<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">
It seems fitting somehow that I kicked off my sabbatical year during summer 2013 by attending the SEFS conference in Germany, and then in October 2014 I traveled back to Europe for the 8th International Shallow Lakes Conference held in Antalya, Turkey (<a href="http://shallowlakes2014.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://shallowlakes2014.org/</a>). It feels as if the professional part of my year abroad is complete, having closed the loop.<br />
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Last year, I presented at SEFS in July, gave invited talks in Scotland in Oct, at Trinity in Nov, and talks in two different departments at Queen's in Feb and March. All of these international presentations gave me lots of experience giving longer seminars to broad audiences, as well as helped to build my professional network. As a result, I was invited to give a landscape limnology plenary/keynote address at the 8th International Shallow Lakes Conference in Turkey. What an honor! <span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">I also agreed to give a lunchtime workshop about how to make and maintain high-performing research teams while at the conference.</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span></div>
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My plenary and workshop both went well, with ~200 and 35 people attending each, respectively. People asked me a lot of questions after each, and I had many conversations afterwards about the topics I presented. Because some of the scientists at this conference do not work at very broad scales (e.g., they tend to work on one to a handful of lakes at a time), my landscape limnology talk presented them with some different ideas to think about. Overall, being at the conference was intellectually stimulating - I even got a new idea for a research project that I will propose to my CSI Limnology group related to shallow lakes!<o:p></o:p><br />
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One day, the whole conference took off on excursions to see the area. I went on one that went to Phaselis, Mount Chimaera, and Omlypos. The countryside is just beautiful. So many olive, citrus, and pomegranate trees… and very dramatic vistas of mountains and beaches. We were lucky weather-wise, it poured rain while we were on the bus between two different stops, but cleared up for our hikes. Phaselis was mainly strolling thru old ruins (the theatre was especially neat) - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaselis" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaselis</a>.<br />
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Mount Chimaera was a really nice hike up to an area with methane emissions that are on fire (lots of mythology there!) and back - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Chimaera" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Chimaera</a>.<br />
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Olympos was this really expansive ancient city - the ruins were in amongst the forest and along a river all the way out to the Sea and even along the beach and on cliffs (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympos_(Lycia)" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympos_(Lycia)</a>). We only saw a small part of it, and it was amazing.<br />
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We also had an hour on the beach at Olympos. Here are two articles about this beach and area from the Guardian: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/aug/22/turkey-guesthouse-budget-beach" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/aug/22/turkey-guesthouse-budget-beach</a> and the Telegraph: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/bestbeaches/7634792/Best-beaches-in-Turkey-Olympos-Antalya.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/bestbeaches/7634792/Best-beaches-in-Turkey-Olympos-Antalya.html</a>.<br />
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In May, I got word that my lab will grow by two during the 2014-2015 year. I'm very happy to announce that I'll have two new postdoctoral research scientists join my lab next year.<br />
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Dr. Jean-Francois Lapierre (above) has received a FQRNT Fellowship from the Quebec Government (<a href="http://www.frqnt.gouv.qc.ca/en/bourses/index.htm">http://www.frqnt.gouv.qc.ca/en/bourses/index.htm</a>) to partially support his 2-year postdoc in my lab. He comes from the University of Quebec, Montreal where he recently finished his PhD working with Dr. Paul del Giorgio (<a href="http://www.carbbas.uqam.ca/en/group/present-members/41-jean-francois-lapierre.html">http://www.carbbas.uqam.ca/en/group/present-members/41-jean-francois-lapierre.html</a>). He will join the CSI-Limnology team (<a href="http://www.csilimnology.org/">www.csilimnology.org</a>) researching large-scale patterns and processes governing lakes. I'm looking forward to working with him starting in September.<br />
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Dr. Caroline Wynne (above) has received an Irish EPA Fulbight Fellowship to join my lab for six months (<a href="http://www.fulbright.ie/record-breaking-40-irish-recipients-awarded-prestigious-fulbright-award">http://www.fulbright.ie/record-breaking-40-irish-recipients-awarded-prestigious-fulbright-award</a>). She comes from Dublin, Ireland where she has been a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Ian Donohue at Trinity College, Dublin (<a href="https://www.tcd.ie/Zoology/research/research/donohue/researchers_carolinewynne.php">https://www.tcd.ie/Zoology/research/research/donohue/researchers_carolinewynne.php</a>). I first met her last summer in Germany at the Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences, and then interacted with her some this year while at QUB. She will join the Lakes as Social-Ecological Systems (<a href="http://www.fw.msu.edu/~llrg/social-ecological-systems.php">http://www.fw.msu.edu/~llrg/social-ecological-systems.php</a>) team researching the interactions between human land use decision-making, lake water quality, and the ecosystem services that lakes provide humans. As a Fulbright Fellow, she will be expected to serve as an ambassador for Ireland. In addition, since her Fellowship is funded by the Ireland EPA, she will want to network with analogous agencies in the U.S. (e.g., MI-DEQ and DNR, US EPA). I'm looking forward to working with her starting in January.<br />
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Welcome JF and Caroline, and congratulations on your respective awards!<br />
<br />Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-36191086217610725232014-06-03T13:44:00.003-07:002014-06-03T14:07:05.869-07:00Landscape limnology at the 2014 Joint Aquatic Sciences MeetingDuring May 2014, four leading aquatic scientific societies joined forces to co-host the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Portland, OR (<a href="http://sgmeet.com/jasm2014/">http://sgmeet.com/jasm2014/</a>):<br />
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<li>SOCIETY FOR FRESHWATER SCIENCE</li>
<li>PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA</li>
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I am a long-time member of ASLO, and would normally have gone to this conference and presented at it. However, the thought of traveling ~12 hours and having a 8 hr time difference just two months before we move back to MI did not appeal. So, I sat this one out. But, my friends and colleagues rocked it!<br />
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CSI's lead-PI, Pat Soranno, gave a keynote address on Thursday titled Landscape limnology: Understanding freshwaters at regional to continental scales (<a href="http://sgmeet.com/jasm2014/keynote.asp">http://sgmeet.com/jasm2014/keynote.asp</a>). She spoke about the challenges and opportunities associated with data-intensive ecological research, and her talk inspired lots of questions, comments, and discussion. In addition, we have been using social media to help disseminate our research results (including this blog), and Pat's keynote hit Twitter - she got lots of tweets about the term "data-intensive research" being better than "big data" when describing ecological research like ours, about effective teams including diverse members with interpersonal skills, and about her argument for data sharing to promote a fully democratic environmental science. Nice!<br />
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Dr. Soranno's keynote kicked off a day of talks associated with her plenary. The special session was called Large-scale limnology – Integrating across landscapes to understand regional controls on biodiversity and nutrient cycles. CSI Limno (<a href="http://www.csilimnology.org/">http://www.csilimnology.org/</a>) team members gave five oral and one poster presentation as part of that session (<a href="http://www.sgmeet.com/jasm2014/sessionschedule.asp?SessionID=004">http://www.sgmeet.com/jasm2014/sessionschedule.asp?SessionID=004</a>):<br />
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<li>TAXONOMY OF CHANGE: USING CLUSTER ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY TEMPORAL- PATTERNS IN LIMNOLOGICAL DATA by Noah Lottig and Pang-Ning Tan et al.</li>
<li>PREDICTION AND PATTERNS OF LAKE DEPTH ACROSS A 17-STATE REGION IN THE U.S. by Samantha Oliver et al.</li>
<li>LESSONS FROM LAGOS: THE TRIUMPHS AND CHALLENGES OF CREATING AN INTEGRATED MULTI-SCALED, MULTI-THEMED LAKE NUTRIENT GEODATABASE AT SUBCONTINENTAL SCALES by Sam Christel and Pat Soranno et al.</li>
<li>MEASURING PATTERNS OF LAKE, STREAM, AND WETLAND CONNECTIVITY AT MACROSCALES by Emi Fergus et al.</li>
<li>WHICH GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CLIMATE METRICS AT MACROSCALES BEST DESCRIBE LAKE WATER QUALITY RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE? by Caren Scott et al.</li>
<li>SUBSIDY-STRESS EFFECTS OF NITROGEN ON PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS by Chris Filstrup et al.</li>
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Angela De Palma-Dow, my graduate student and a landscape limnology lab member, also gave a great talk on Wednesday in the Population and Community Ecology Session titled: THE ROLES OF HYDROLOGIC CONNECTIVITY AND LAKE AND LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTICS IN SHAPING MACROPHYTE COMMUNITIES IN ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK INLAND LAKES. She also gave a poster about her work with the MI Citizen Monitoring Program, which is not part of her thesis, but is super cool: METHODS TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION IN AN INVASIVE AQUATIC PLANT MONITORING PROGRAM IN MICHIGAN, USA </div>
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From all accounts, and despite Portland issuing a boil water alert during the conference, the JASM was a great success. I wish that I could have been there to share my current research and see all of my friends and colleagues!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4;">I'm a co-author on a cool new CSI limnology (<a href="http://www.csilimnology.org/">http://www.csilimnology.org/</a>) paper published during April </span><span style="font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">in</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;"> the online, open access journal </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">PLoS One. This research</span></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4;">examines long-term water clarity trends in Midwestern US lakes. There are not enough researchers or government agency staff to collect data on lakes every week, let alone every month, or even every year! But, citizens living on lakes can collect these data, and many do. In fact, my own parents and grandfather collected water clarity data for years on Quacumquasit Lake in MA and Elk Lake in MI! </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4;">My colleague, Noah Lottig, led a team of CSI researchers to compile data from some of the more long-running citizen science programs in the Midwest, including MN, IA, MO, WI, IL, IN, MI and OH. Check out our paper to see the results: </span><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0095769" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4;">http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0095769</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">! </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">The University of Wisconsin, Penn State University, and the National Science Foundation all wrote</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">wrote stories about this paper. Check them out here:</span></span></h3>
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All of this research is thanks in part to the dedicated citizens who have spent years sampling their lakes, agency personnel who help train them and sometimes maintain the databases, and also to Father Pietro Angelo Secchi, a papal astronomer, who invented the Secchi disk well over a century ago. The picture to the right shows a monument to him in the Villa Borghese Park in Rome that some CSI members STUMBLED upon while strolling in Rome one day about a decade ago. The black and white pattern on the statue attracted the attention of the limnologists, and they paid homage to this important limnological historical figure. Meanwhile, observers walking by the photographer (our very own Katherine Webster) were heard saying, “<i>tourists will take pictures of ANYTHING in Rome</i>”. Ha!</div>
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CSI Limnology continues to build our large, geospatial database, LAGOS, by integrating limnological data such as these citizen datasets with data from: state and federal government agencies, tribal agencies, and university researchers, with large numbers of geographic data sources to address further basic and applied science questions across broad spatial and temporal scales. More to come! A<span style="line-height: 1.4;"> big thanks to Ed Bissell for database support and guidance for this effort and Pat Soranno for her contributions to this post. </span></div>
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Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-13364168631202778162014-02-25T03:33:00.001-08:002014-02-25T03:33:23.882-08:00Radiocarbon conference at QUB August 2014QUB is hosting a conference this summer - Radiocarbon in the Environment. My QUB sponsor, Dr. Paula Reimer, and my QUB office-mate, Dr. <span style="font-family: inherit;">Evelyn <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 23.03999900817871px;">Keaveney</span>, </span>are two of the conference organizers and are busy getting the word out! Check out more info here: <a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/14C/">http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/14C/</a><br />
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I'll have just returned to the US, but I highly recommend you attend August 18-22, 2014!<br />
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<br />Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-74215054296791364032014-02-12T05:33:00.002-08:002014-02-12T13:12:43.978-08:00Speaking at QUB EEBEEI was invited to give a talk to the School of Biological Sciences (<a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofBiologicalSciences/">http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofBiologicalSciences/</a>) at Queen's this week. My seminar was part of the Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour and Environmental Economics Seminar Series (<a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofBiologicalSciences/OurResearch/EcologyEvolutionBehaviourandEnvironmentalEconomics/">http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofBiologicalSciences/OurResearch/EcologyEvolutionBehaviourandEnvironmentalEconomics/</a>), which is attended by mainly students and some faculty. During the past 6 months, I have gone to a few of the other seminars in this series (e.g., Drs. Catherine McGavigan and Dmitry Kishkiniev speaking about aquatic plants and migrating birds, respectively) and it seems like a dynamic group.<br />
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My talk, titled "Landscape Limnology: Understanding multi-scaled cause-effect relationships between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems" was in the Medical Biology Center, about a block from the building my office is in. My talk was a bit sparsely attended, but well-received. I had some interesting questions after the talk and look forward to continued interactions with EEBEE at QUB.<br />
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It is interesting to experience the differences in culture across Universities and Schools. For example, there is no preceding or following social for this seminar series. Instead, the group gathers every Thursday morning for coffee and cake. I plan to attend one of the coffee hours soon to engage further with people from this cluster.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Special thanks to Dr. Christine Maggs, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">Head of School, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">for hosting me</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">. </span>Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-51924367511243439482014-02-04T02:19:00.003-08:002014-06-08T02:30:22.979-07:00Science teams make the news! I think that many professors would say that their research informs their classrooms - that they bring their research methods and results into the classroom to help their students learn. However, I'm not sure how many professors think that there is a mutualistic relationship between their research labs and teaching classrooms. I do, and my new paper published this week is a great example of this relationship --<br />
Creating and maintaining high-performing collaborative research teams: the importance of diversity and interpersonal skills by Kendra S Cheruvelil, Patricia A Soranno, Kathleen C Weathers, Paul C Hanson, Simon J Goring, Christopher T Filstrup, Emily K Read (<a href="http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/130001">http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/130001</a>). Check out MSU's press release about my paper here: <a href="http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/research-its-more-than-just-the-science/">http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/research-its-more-than-just-the-science/</a>, which has also been picked up by Science Daily: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140204123732.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140204123732.htm</a> and Phys.org: <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-02-science.html" target="_blank">http://phys.org/news/2014-02-science.html</a>.<br />
JUNE UPDATE: the Archbold Biological Station included CSI Limnology and highlighted my teamwork paper in their newsletter:<br />
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You might be asking how this mutualistic relationship works...well, there are three parts to the story:<br />
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First, over a decade ago, I began working with three amazing ecologists: Drs. Patricia Soranno, Mary Tate Bremigan, and Katherine Webster. We got a grant from the US EPA to fund some of our <i>Landscape Limnology</i> research (<a href="http://www.fw.msu.edu/~llrg">www.fw.msu.edu/~llrg</a>) and were able to do a LOT of great science with a relatively small number of tax-payer dollars. We have since expanded our research team in multiple directions (e.g., <i>CSI Limnology</i> and <i>Lakes as Socio-Ecological Systems</i>), and have continued to work really well together. I don't take these great research teams for granted because to work productively together is not a given in science. In fact, high-performing science teams take a lot of work to create and maintain! But, I am committed to these teams that keep me passionate about science.<br />
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Second, I began teaching introductory organismal biology in MSU's Lyman Briggs College (<a href="http://www.lbc.msu.edu/">www.lbc.msu.edu</a>). Right away, I noticed that my students struggled to work effectively in their lab teams and that those struggles negatively affected their science learning and their attitudes about biology. I began attending teaching seminars and reading the education literature about how to facilitate effective student teams. In fact, when I was an MSU Lilly Teaching Fellow (<a href="http://www.fod.msu.edu/opportunities/lilly-teaching-fellows-program">http://www.fod.msu.edu/opportunities/lilly-teaching-fellows-program</a>), I designed a <i>Scholarship of Teaching and Learning</i> project that asked: How do diverse base groups impact student learning and attitudes in introductory biology? Over the past eight years, I have learned a lot about how to help students working in teams do so in better, more satisfying, and more scientifically productive ways.<br />
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Third, I began working with some of my LBC colleagues to increase awareness and appreciation of diversity in its many forms. With Drs. Georgina Montgomery, Cheryl Murphy, and Cori Fata-Hartley, I formed a new <span style="font-family: inherit;">standing committee, LBC Inc, which has the goal of <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.599998474121094px; text-align: justify;">promoting and fostering an inclusive environment and equal opportunities for all LBC students, faculty, and staff through </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">education</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.599998474121094px; text-align: justify;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">research</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.599998474121094px; text-align: justify;">, and </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">service (<a href="http://lymanbriggs.msu.edu/faculty/standing.cfm">http://lymanbriggs.msu.edu/faculty/standing.cfm</a>);</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.599998474121094px; text-align: justify;"> w</span></span>ith Drs. Georgina Montgomery, Cori Fata-Hartley, and Aaron McCright, I developed a senior capstone course that used service learning and student research to explore issues of diversity in science; and with Dr. Cori Fata-Hartley, I developed and implemented a seminars and workshops about the importance of diversity for science teaching and learning (e.g., <i>Creating an Inclusive Classroom</i>). I found all of these experiences extremely rewarding, and at the same time was continuously reminded of how challenging it is to think and talk about "diversity", no matter the context.<br />
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So, how did these three different aspects of my job come together to create this Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment paper about science teams? Over the course of the last 10+ years, I have been experiencing and observing a huge number of teams at work - in the classroom, in my lab, and beyond. The teamwork skills I learned in order to help my students and the literature I read about the importance of diversity for teaching and learning began informing my research teams. I began to lead my research teams through teamwork exercises about negotiating conflict and time management. I designed an online survey for CSI Limnology to assess team functioning. I started raising other scientists' awareness about the importance of diversity and interpersonal skills for science teams. And then, word got out -- I began getting emails from colleagues around the world asking me for my teamwork materials so that their research teams could increase their level of productivity as well. Thus, this paper was born!<br />
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I wrote this paper with some amazing co-authors: Patricia Soranno, Kathleen Weathers, Paul Hanson, Simon Goring, Chris Filstrup, and Emily Read. We wrote the paper to provide scientists with a strong rationale for <i>why </i>they need to very carefully create diverse research teams, teach scientists teamwork and leadership skills, and value such training and its outputs. In addition, our paper provides many concrete examples of <i>how</i> to create and maintain high-performing collaborative research teams (check out the online supplemental documents: <a href="http://www.esajournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1890/130001/suppl_file/i1540-9295-12-1-31.s01.pdf">http://www.esajournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1890/130001/suppl_file/i1540-9295-12-1-31.s01.pdf</a>). We wrote the paper based on our own experiences working in teams (not all of which have been high-performing) as well as using research published mainly in the fields of education and business. Finally, our paper was informed by the really cool new discipline called <i>the science of team science</i> (<a href="http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BBCSS/CurrentProjects/DBASSE_080231">http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BBCSS/CurrentProjects/DBASSE_080231</a>). We hope that our paper is helpful for science teams that want to improve, scientists in training who want to learn teamwork and leadership skills, and administrators who are thinking about how to evaluate and reward scientists who work in teams. The end result of high-performing science teams is better science being conducted, which is a win for everyone!<br />
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This special issue (<a href="http://www.esajournals.org/toc/fron/12/1">http://www.esajournals.org/toc/fron/12/1</a>) was partly the result of a two-day meeting held during February of 2012 in Boulder, CO. Researchers funded through the NSF-MacroSysytems Biology Program (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503425">http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503425</a>), including me, got together to share ideas and tools and talked a lot about what it is that makes macrosystems ecology tick, including effective interdisciplinary teams. You can check out the NSF's press releases here: <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF&from=news">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF&from=news</a> and <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF</a>.<br />
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A special shout out to my long-time LLRG, my LBC students and teaching assistants, and to Cori Fata-Hartley!Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-58462642535319102032014-02-03T12:22:00.002-08:002014-02-12T05:52:59.008-08:00Macrosystems ecology making a splashOne of my research projects that I've written about here before, CSI-Limnology (<a href="http://www.csilimnology.org/">www.csilimnology.org</a>), <span style="font-family: inherit;"> is about </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">understanding and explaining variation among lakes at large geographic scales and through time. This research focus puts us on the front edge of an emerging new </span><span style="color: #333333;">subdiscipline</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"> of ecology called </span></span>macrosystems ecology. This new field of study is the focus of a special issue this month in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Check out MSU's press release about the special issue, including a short animation, here: <a href="http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/new-scientific-field-looks-at-the-big-picture/">http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/new-scientific-field-looks-at-the-big-picture/</a>.<br />
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In this special issue, I am lead-author on a paper about how to create and maintain the best possible scientific collaborations (see my next post for details), as well as co-author on three of the other papers. CSI Limnology's lead-PI, Patricia Soranno, was the co-editor of the issue. She was also co-lead author on the opening editorial and the opening paper that describes this new field of science, and was lead author on our CSI-Limnology paper that describes how important cross-scale interactions are for understanding variation among ecosystems at large scales and for predicting their likely responses to stressors such as land use and clim<span style="font-family: inherit;">ate changes. Many of my CSI Limnology colleagues are also co-authors on various papers in the special issue (listed in alpha order): </span><span class="author" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Ed Bissell</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span class="author" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Mary Tate Bremigan</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span class="author" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">John Downing</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span class="author" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Emi Fergus</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span class="author" style="background-color: white;">Chris Filstrup</span><span style="background-color: white;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span class="author" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Emily Norton Henry</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="background-color: white;">Noah Lottig, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Craig Stow, </span><span class="author" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Emily Stanley</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span class="author" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Pang-Ning Tan</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ty Wagner, and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Katherine Webster. </span><br />
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All of the papers are available online for free at: <a href="http://www.esajournals.org/toc/fron/12/1">http://www.esajournals.org/toc/fron/12/1</a> -- thanks to the US NSF. As an aside, did you know that scientists do not get paid to publish their work, but instead have to pay to have their research published? And, if they want it to be accessible by everyone (which I do), then it is even more expensive to publish your work!<br />
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The projects highlighted in this issue are funded through the US NSF MacroSystems Biology (MSB) Program. This special issue was the result of MSB project participants (including Pat and me) meeting in Boulder, CO for an NSF-funded workshop during February of 2011. Check out the NSF's press releases here: <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF&from=news">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF&from=news</a> and <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF</a>.Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-82678925160955294332014-01-28T08:46:00.000-08:002014-01-28T08:47:34.157-08:00Speaking at Queen's GAPI was invited to give a talk as part of the Queen's School of Geography, Archaeology, and Paleoecology Seminar Series at Queen's at the end of January (<a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/">http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/</a>). As the name implies, this School, and its seminar series, is pretty diverse. My seminar was part of the Environmental Change cluster. I have met some of the people in this cluster during the past 6 months, but certainly not all of them. They seem like a dynamic and friendly group of people. Before the talk, there were sandwiches, cookies, and tea/coffee for everyone. What a lovely tradition!<br />
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My talk, titled "Increasing understanding of environmental change: Quantifying multi-scaled relationships between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems" was in the Elmwood Building, next door to the building my office is in. My talk was well-attended and well-received by a mixture of students and staff. I had a lot of interesting questions after the talk and look forward to interacting with people from this cluster for the next 6 months.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Special thanks to Dr. Paula Reimer for hosting me</span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">.</span>Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-64242281270117503102014-01-23T05:20:00.002-08:002014-01-31T04:13:25.843-08:00Playing with data in FLDuring early January, I spent a week in Florida with my CSI-Limnology colleagues. For those of you who don't know about CSI-Limnology (<a href="http://www.csilimnology.org/">www.csilimnology.org</a>), we are an interdisciplinary team of researchers who have compiled lake and landscape data for thousands of the northeastern-most 17 U.S. states in order to better understand how lakes are res<span style="font-family: inherit;">ponding to changes in land use and climate. We have named our database LAGOS (<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">LAke GeOSpatial) and the lake data look something like:</span></span><br />
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Our team includes researchers from across central and eastern U.S. (and even one who person who lives in the UK), so every year we meet somewhere for a week to work together. This year, we met at the Archbold Biological Station (<a href="http://www.archbold-station.org/">http://www.archbold-station.org/</a>) in Venus, FL.<br />
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Note added 1/31/14: One of the CSI Limno grad students, Samantha Oliver, also blogged about our week in FL. Check her great post out: <a href="http://limnology.wisc.edu/blog/csi-limnology-team-building-crucial-for-team-science/">http://limnology.wisc.edu/blog/csi-limnology-team-building-crucial-for-team-science/</a><br />
<br />Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-31974174983902750522013-12-08T10:11:00.000-08:002013-12-08T10:11:23.892-08:00Local-scale, continental-scale, what's in between? The regional scale of course! <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In my new paper published in Ecological Applications (</span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-1872.1">http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-1872.1</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">), my co-authors and I explored the important role of the regional spatial scale for understanding and managing lakes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We found that the region that a lake is in really matters to its chemistry and nutrient levels. In other words, lakes that are closer together have more similar levels than lakes that are farther away. We actually quantified this pattern of different lake chemistry and nutrient levels depending on the region a lake is in, and showed how this approach could be used for studying other ecosystems. We also studied the factors that make regions different from each other, such as the amount of forest land, agricultural land, and groundwater contribution, as well as the type of geology present.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lots of research is conducted at the local-scale, such as within a lake, lake network, or ecological region (also called an ecoregion). On the other end of the spectrum, there is research being conducted at the continental and global scales. However, less research has been done on the intermediate, regional scale. One way that both terrestrial and aquatic scientists and managers have included the regional scale in their work is by grouping ecosystems within a 'regionalization framework' that is created by dividing a continent into contiguous, often hierarchical, discrete spatial units of similar landscape features that are sometimes called ecoregions or regions. However, there are many different regionalization frameworks to choose from, and none of these frameworks were created specifically to capture among-lake variation, which was the focus of our study. </span></div>
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Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-83614756417309415592013-12-04T04:50:00.001-08:002013-12-04T04:50:32.873-08:00Dr. Reimer is in the news!My sponsor here at QUB, Dr. Paula Reimer, is in this news this week. You can read about her new carbon dating breakthrough reported by the BBC news on Dec 3, 2013 here: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-25192934">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-25192934</a>. Neat stuff!Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-82810574930919533052013-12-03T04:19:00.001-08:002014-02-25T02:31:05.224-08:00Speaking at Trinity College, Dublin (ROI)I was invited to give a talk as part of the Department of Zoology Seminar Series at Trinity College Dubin (<a href="http://www.tcd.ie/Zoology/">http://www.tcd.ie/Zoology/</a>) at the end of November. I took an ~2 hour commuter train ride from Belfast to Dublin, then went just 2 stops on the DART train (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) and found myself at the edge of the Trinity campus. I met with lots of brilliant students (undergraduate and graduate) and faculty (postdocs and professors) in the Department, and found them to be a very friendly group. My lunch with graduate students in the Dept was especially nice - they seemed to be a very cohesive, fun, and productive group.<br />
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My talk was in a lecture hall in the Botany Building. In fact, it was in the lecture hall that was featured in the 1980's film "Educating Rita" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educating_Rita_%28film%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educating_Rita_%28film%29</a>). Here I am impersonating Michael Caine in that film!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My talk, titled <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">"U</span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">nderstanding multi-scaled relationships
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are two of the scholars I had conversations with and
who could be future collaborators: Drs. Ian Donohue and Andrew Jackson (<a href="http://www.tcd.ie/Zoology/staff/">http://www.tcd.ie/Zoology/staff/</a>). I will likely return to Trinity this winter to meet with them again. <span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Special thanks to Drs. Katherine Webster and Natalie Cooper for hosting me and helping with my </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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UPDATE: Here's the Trinity EcoEvo blog post about my talk. <a href="http://www.ecoevoblog.com/2014/01/29/seminar-series-kendra-cheruvelil-michigan-state-universityqueens-university-belfast/">http://www.ecoevoblog.com/2014/01/29/seminar-series-kendra-cheruvelil-michigan-state-universityqueens-university-belfast/</a>Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-60937291070832975352013-11-05T07:24:00.003-08:002013-11-06T08:03:58.086-08:00Building my network in Scotland<span style="font-family: inherit;">During October, I island-hopped to Stirling, Scotland with my long-time collaborator Katherine Webster. Flying from Belfast to Glasgow is amazingly quick - just 20 minutes in the plane. A bus, train, and then taxi took us into Stirling, where the University of Stirling is located (<a href="http://www.stir.ac.uk/">http://www.stir.ac.uk/</a>). For those of you who might not be up on their UK geography, here is a map: <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/k2QaT">http://goo.gl/maps/k2QaT</a>. Stirling is where THE Wallace (featured in Braveheart) is from, so there is a big monument to him there (tower in pic below).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first day in Stirling, I gave an invited talk to the Scottish Freshwater Group:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The next day, we met with Scottish scientists who do very complementary research to the Landscape Limnology Research Group (<a href="http://www.fw.msu.edu/~llrg">www.fw.msu.edu/~llrg</a>) and who could be future collaborators. We met with Andrew Tyler and Peter Hunter from the University of Stirling, Laurence Carvalho from the</span><span email="laca@ceh.ac.uk" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">Centre for Ecology & Hydrology at the National Environmental Research Council, and Mark Cutler, Eirini Politi, and John Rowan from the University of Dundee </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">(</span><a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">http://www.dundee.ac.uk/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">We exchanged information about our respective research programs, including </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">GloboLakes </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">(</span><a href="http://www.globolakes.ac.uk/" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">http://www.globolakes.ac.uk/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">) and CSI Limnology (</span><a href="http://www.csilimnology.org/" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">www.csilimnology.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">). </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">We established </span><br />
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<br />Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-49316723989384139522013-11-05T06:50:00.004-08:002013-11-06T07:58:17.086-08:00Kicking off sabbatical with a European conferenceI kicked off my sabbatical year during July 2013 by attending the Symposium for European Freshwater Scientists (SEFS) in Munster, Germany. For those of you who don't know where Munster is, here is a map: <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/7OSkl">http://goo.gl/maps/7OSkl</a>. I had a great time at the conference.<br />
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1) The presentation quality was extremely high. Check out the program: <a href="http://www.sefs2013.de/">http://www.sefs2013.de/</a>.<br />
2) The venue was amazingly posh, with comfortable lodging, easy to navigate session rooms, and very good food. Check out the Movenpick Hotel: <a href="http://www.moevenpick-hotels.com/en/europe/germany/muenster/hotel-muenster/overview/">http://www.moevenpick-hotels.com/en/europe/germany/muenster/hotel-muenster/overview/</a>.<br />
3) The conference was a really nice size. It was smaller than what I've attended the last few years, which meant that it had fewer concurrent sessions and I didn't have to jump between sessions that often.<br />
4) The diversity of plenary talks was excellent. They had a really nice balance of early-career, middle-career, and late-career speakers, male and female speakers, speakers with different disciplinary expertise, and speakers from different countries. Here they are: Simona Bacchereti, Emily S. Bernhardt, Ulrich Brose, Claudia Dziallas, Carol Eunmi Lee, Judit Padisák, Robert W. Sterner, and Diego Tonolla. <br />
5) My oral presentation was titled <i>A conceptual framework for understanding multi-scaled cause-effect relationships between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems </i>and it was in the special session titled <i>Organic carbon and nutrient dynamics in freshwaters under global change</i>. The room was completely full during my talk and it was well-received.<br />
6) The city of Munster was really nice - see pix below. It is dubbed the bicycle capital of Germany, and the people there are proud that they have not had a mugging in over 20 years. The Movenpick was right near a beautiful park with a nice-sized lake that was surrounded by trails (middle pic below), as well being walking distance to the Botanic Garden (map here: <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/dD6DG">http://goo.gl/maps/dD6DG</a>).<br />
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My only real disappointment was that the majority of attendees study moving, rather than still, water (i.e., rivers and streams rather than lakes and ponds), but there were certainly enough interesting presentations for me to learn from and I was happy to start the year at SEFS.<br />
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<br />Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735526838335975849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2563289561872046040.post-41223400934623155722013-10-21T07:08:00.001-07:002013-11-05T04:30:26.357-08:00What is a sabbatical?The best comment I have gotten when talking to people about being on sabbatical is something along the lines of "how nice that you get a year off from work" or "what a nice vacation". Where does this incorrect notion come from? A sa<span style="font-family: inherit;">bbatical is NOT a vacation. Hmmm... What does Webster's say a sabbatical is? Huh - here might be part of the problem! Merriam Webster online says of the "sabbatical year": <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><i>a leave often with pay granted usually every seventh year (as to a college professor) for rest, travel, or research — called also </i></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><i>sabbatical leave.</i> Well, I'd like to use this post as a way to tell you about what my sabbatical year is/will be generally like. </span></span><br />
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In my experience, every sabbatical is different. Many professors choose to spend their sabbatical either learning and applying new research tools, building new research collaborations, or developing new curricula and courses (or some combo of those activities). Others do what I am doing - conducting data analysis and interpretation that can lead to grant proposals and peer-reviewed manuscripts (scientific papers), writing those proposals and papers, and extending their professional network. At MSU, during a sabbatical year, they pay Profs half of their salary so that they can travel and do research with no teaching or service/committee work.<br />
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My sabbatical comes after working very long hours and very hard for 16 years as a graduate student and professor. In fact, most graduate students and professors rarely work just a 40 hour week. Most work nights and weekends, and many either don't take vacations, or vacations include a laptop and working remotely. I secured funding for the other half of my salary this year so that I could spend a year THINKING and REFLECTING. Sounds wonderful, right? In some ways, this plan is like a vacation for me - I went into academia with the idea that I would spend loads of time<i> thinking and doing science</i>. The reality, though, is that I spend the majority of my working hours in meetings and classrooms, and although I find teaching very rewarding and enjoy some of my committee work, I really miss having the quiet time to think and do science.<br />
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So far, my day-to-day schedule looks something like this: deliver one of the boys to school/childcare at 9am, go to my office at QUB and work independently until mid-afternoon, Skype with colleagues in the U.S. in the mid-late afternoon (multiple research projects at various stages), and then head home around 5 or 5:30 pm. Pretty great! Also while we are here, I will work collaboratively with my colleague who lives in the area, serve on an NSF panel in D.C., attend a working group in FL, give some invited research talks and extend my local and regional professional networks by attending QUB seminars and European conferences and meetings. By the end of the year, I am hopeful that I will have accomplished a lot of science and that I will feel both personally and professionally rejuvenated!<br />
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I am on sabbatical August 2013-August 2014 at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland. I'm a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Archeology and Paleoecology at QUB. My sponsor at QUB (person who helped me become a QUB Visiting Research Fellow) is Dr Paula Reimer, a renown expert in carbon dating who recently won a Lyell Medal from the Geological Society. You can visit her webpage here: <a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfPaulaReimer/">http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfPaulaReimer/</a><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-25192934"></a>. This is my first sabbatical, and I'm going to use this blog as a way to keep track of what I experience professionally during this year abroad.<br />
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