[LTER-education] Fw: Last Call: crowdsourcing materials for EnviSci undergraduates

Fri Jul 10 13:31:11 PDT 2020

Hi EOC folks,
I haven't heard word of any of us developing a list like this. Do you have something like this going? This list is my department's effort towards providing some persistent supports to the many undergrads who lost opportunities.
If none of our sites or programs have started one, please consider sending me contributions to share with the coordinators; in exchange, I'll be sure that you get an updated version to share broadly.

A Resource List for Undergraduates<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12FGgyjFGxJXLNJbNTz_9C4C_9kKL6J4u9PHqdO3r-4s/edit?usp=sharing>

Thanks for considering.
Best,
Cora

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From: envisci-staff-request at virginia.edu <envisci-staff-request at virginia.edu> on behalf of Elise Heffernan <eh9hg at virginia.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 4:09 PM
To: LeCroy, Kathryn Ann (kal8d) <kal8d at virginia.edu>
Cc: Rodenberg, Clare August (cr4rd) <cr4rd at virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: Last Call: crowdsourcing materials for EnviSci undergraduates

Hello everyone,

First off, thank you to everyone who contributed to our call for resources! We wanted to share the list with everyone in case it comes in handy.

A Resource List for Undergraduates<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12FGgyjFGxJXLNJbNTz_9C4C_9kKL6J4u9PHqdO3r-4s/edit?usp=sharing>

We hope to continue to grow our list, so it's never too late to add your resources! You can reply to this email or you can fill out the google form from Kate's original email.

Best,

Elise, Clare and Kate

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:55 PM Kathryn LeCroy <kal8d at virginia.edu<mailto:kal8d at virginia.edu>> wrote:

One final call to share resources with our undergraduates during COVID-19 - we'd love your help (see message below)!

Specifically, we really would love some hydrology resources, and some professional development resources from ecology. We've got great coverage from folks in atmospheric sciences and geology, but the more is always merrier in this case.

Link to share resources: https://forms.gle/synQuYVeUKYT2zVw5

Dear Department members:

The Environmental Science Department's Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program typically connects EnviSci undergraduates to research opportunities and experiences with our graduate students. Recognizing that COVID-19 has disrupted research opportunities for undergraduates<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/cruel-summer-young-americans/612154/>, and in the spirit of supporting learning, the Research Mentoring Program coordinators would like to crowd-source and share a list of resources for our undergraduate students that will encourage engagement with environmental science disciplines and our department during the summer. Along with offering this list, we (the Research Mentoring Program coordinators) are also offering our undergraduate students one-on-one strategy sessions over Zoom to figure out new research goals, drop-in group Zoom hours to stay connected with fellow students, and we’re gathering undergraduate feedback on a few workshops we want to develop.

We invite you to fill out this form<https://forms.gle/synQuYVeUKYT2zVw5> to share resources that you’d want our undergraduate students to know about and to have a chance to engage with this summer. Please don't feel pressure to cover everything - we're also gathering resources from other UVA offices (Career Center, Brown Library, Sustainability, Counseling & Psychological Services, etc.).

TYPES OF RESOURCES: We're open to all kinds of resources. The best ones would be those that are freely accessible or accessed by using their UVA account. Resources could be job postings or lists of job postings for summer work (remote or in-person), email Listservs, book recommendations, review papers, videos, online courses, virtual conferences, and anything else you can envision helpful for a student who might want to stay engaged in environmental sciences remotely over the summer.

Feel free to list as many resources as you want. Please provide any relevant title/author info, a link if possible, and a quick sentence or two as to why it could be helpful. If you need to share the resource with us via uploading an attachment or you’re not sure how best to share it, please send an email to Kate LeCroy at kal8d at virginia.edu<mailto:kal8d at virginia.edu> .

General categories of resources we hope to include are:

Late-breaking/ongoing summer job postings, Atmospheric Sciences, Geology, Hydrology, Ecology, Grad School Preparation, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Policy, Environmental & Social Justice, Coding/Software/Stats, Recipes/Cooking, Music/Art, Sports/Recreation, and Everything Else. These are not meant to be mutually exclusive nor exhaustive (no pressure to cover all of them) but they will hopefully help us think more broadly than one specific discipline/category (and who doesn’t want some fun, EnviSci-endorsed recipes to try out over the summer?).

QUESTIONS: Feel free to contact the Research Mentoring Program coordinators with any questions - Elise Heffernan (eh9hg), Clare Rodenberg (cr4rd), and Kate LeCroy (kal8d).

Link to share resources: https://forms.gle/synQuYVeUKYT2zVw5

Thank you in advance for your consideration and help with this effort to support our undergraduate students.

Sincerely,

Elise, Clare, and Kate

Kate LeCroy
PhD Candidate
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia
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