Mentoring Network Groups will meet once a month beginning in February or early March of 2022. Mentors are trained to support a variety of group goals. Select your top two preferred mentor groups. Please note, we cannot guarantee every accepted mentee will be placed in one of their preferred mentor groups.
Group 1
Meets the third Friday of every month at 12:00 pm ET, beginning 18 February 2022.
| Larry W Esposito (USA) Current Position: Professor at Colorado University Expertise: Planetary sciences, atmospheres, and ring systems Interest in serving as mentor: I am glad to share my experience and advice. Experience as mentor: 3 years past experience in the AGU Mentoring Network. For the past 25 years, I have mentored undergraduates at Colorado University. I have had many undergrad researcher projects, graduate students, post-docs and junior colleagues, with whom I have discussed career and science. |
Shawn Brooks (USA) Current Position: Investigation Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech Expertise: Planetary Sciences Interest in serving as mentor: Understand how important networks and mentor/mentee relationships are in helping the more junior members of our community continue on and establish themselves as professionals, particularly in the case of underrepresented minorities. Experience as mentor: Little formal experience as a mentor, though I have informally supported the more junior members on projects Member of the DPS PCCS since 2018 and currently serve as the chair of the subcommittee. |
John F Cooper (USA) Current Position: Emeritus Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Expertise: Planetary Sciences, Space Physics and Aeronomy, Astrobiology Interest in serving as mentor: Would like to help the next generations work in the Space Sciences and provide advice and feedback on research, proposals, space mission involvement, working life. Experience as mentor: Supervised several summer student interns on research projects as part of space science work at NASA GSFC. |
Group 2
Meeting time TBD.
| Albert Gabric (Australia) Current Position: Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Expertise: Biogeosciences, Global Environmental Change, Ocean Sciences Interest in serving as mentor: Recently retired academic with wealth of experience to share with recent grads or early career scientists. This AGU initiative is particularly timely given the many challenges that face science education and the job market in a post-pandemic world. Experience as mentor: Served for several years as a mentor to newly appointed staff at Griffith. |
Xiahong Feng (USA) Current Position: Professor at Dartmouth College Expertise: Global Environmental Change, Atmospheric Sciences, Biogeosciences, Cryosphere Sciences, Hydrology Interest in serving as mentor: Effectively mentor graduate students particularly AGU Bridge students. Experience as mentor: Mentored students as an advisor, thesis committee member, graduate program recruiting committee member, graduate program coordinator, and AGU Bridge program leader. Mentored junior faculty members as a faculty mentor. |
Patrick Crill (Sweden) Current Position: Professor Emeritus of biogeochemistry at Stockholm University Expertise: Biogeosciences, Atmospheric Sciences, and Ocean Sciences Interest in serving as mentor: To listen and help. Experience as mentor: Many undergraduate and graduate students and long experience as a working scientist. |
Group 3
Meets the second Tuesday of every month at 10:00am ET, beginning 8 February 2022.
| John Geissman (USA) Current Position: Emeritus Research Professor at the University of New Mexico Expertise: Paleomagnetism and applied rock magnetism in tectonics and surface earth processes Interest in serving as mentor: Opportunity to give back, because giving back, in many forms, is important. Each and every mentee represents the future, and we do not have a lot of time into the future to get things “right.” Experience as mentor: Served as an AGU Mentoring Network mentor for the past 3 years as well as in other AGU volunteer roles. |
Maureen Long (USA) Current Position: Professor and Department Chair at Yale University Expertise: Study of The Earth’s Deep Interior, Seismology, and Tectonophysics Interest in serving as mentor: Mentoring the next generation of scientists has been a longstanding interest. Experience as mentor: Served as a mentor and advisor to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and junior colleagues throughout time as a faculty member. Recipient of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Mentor Award in 2019. |
Ruby Saha (India) Current Position: Senior Research Scholar at IIT Madras Expertise: Nonlinear Geophysics and Climate Network Modeling Interest in serving as mentor: To help those interested in climate network modeling and help with scientific writing. Experience as mentor: Teaching Assistant for four different courses in the Physics Department. |
Group 4
Meets the third Friday of every month at 2:00 pm ET, beginning 18 February 2022.
| Jeff McDonnell (Canada) Current Position: Professor at University of Saskatchewan Expertise: Biogeosciences, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Hydrology, and Education Interest in serving as mentor: To help promote ideas I have developed in a recent AGU book on early career mentoring, Navigating an Academic Career: A Brief Guide for PhD Students, Postdocs and New Faculty. Experience as mentor: Many publications about professional development. |
Arsineh Hecobian (USA) Current Position: Air Specialist at Chevron Expertise: Atmospheric Sciences, Education, Global Environmental Change, Climate change and sustainability Interest in serving as mentor: Have had the great fortune of benefiting from the mentorship of various field-leaders and peers throughout career and would like to share some of what I have learned. Experience as mentor: ESWN mentorship, participated as a panelist in PROGRESS. Co-Director of the elevate program at Chevron, mentored K-12 teachers in Earth Sciences as part of Georgia’s JASON and PISA projects, and was informally mentoring graduate students at Colorado State University. |
Steven Pawson (USA) Current Position: Chief of the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Expertise: Atmospheric Sciences Interest in serving as mentor: Manager of a large and vibrant Earth system science modeling/assimilation group and can offer a different perspective on career development. Experience as mentor: Offer perspectives from living and working in three different countries: UK (through PhD and postdoc levels); Germany (from researcher to teaching in the FU Berlin for a decade); US (my transition to the “big science” of a government lab and stepping up to a science management role). |
Group 5
Meets the second Friday of each month at 3:00 pm ET, beginning 11 February 2022.
| Helen Greenwood Hansma (USA) Current Position: Research Professor and Adjunct Professor, Emeritus at University of California Santa Barbara Expertise: Biogeosciences, Education, Science and Society, Origin of life, and NPR Scicommer Interest in serving as mentor: Enjoy being a mentor, usually by email, and have mentored many people through many organizations Experience as mentor: Lots of prior experience with organizations including SACNAS and AWIS. Comfortable with non-binary/LGBTQX people. |
James Ammerman (USA) Current Position: Science Coordinator at the EPA National Estuary Program Expertise: Ocean Sciences Interest in serving as mentor: To pass on what I have learned in diverse ocean science positions to the next generation. Have been a soft-money researcher, tenured professor, NSF Program Manager, Sea Grant Director, and a Science Director/Coordinator in both NOAA and EPA-affiliated organizations and can therefore address a wide variety of potential career paths. Experience as mentor: Mentored 3 Ph.D. students a 7 M.S. student as an a professor at Texas A&M and a research professor at Rutgers. Coordinated an REU site at Rutgers and involved many undergraduate interns in my lab and in research cruises to the Gulf of Mexico. |
Chidong Zhang (USA) Current Position: Division Leader at NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Expertise: Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean Sciences; Interest in serving as mentor: Share my experience as a scientist, educator and a leader in academia and government, lessons I have learned during my career development, and my take on the current and future challenges to science. Experience as mentor: In my 20-year career as a university professor, I mentored two undergraduate students, 14 graduate students, and 12 postdoctoral associates. In my 5 years in government, I have mentored nine summer interns, and I am supervising nine federal scientists. |
Group 6
Meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at 11:00am ET, beginning 22 February 2022.
| Madison Myers (USA) Current Position: Assistant Professor at Montana State University Expertise: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Interest in serving as mentor: I think mentorship is the most important aspect of an early career attendees success and I want to be able to share any advice or knowledge I have accumulated with them. Experience as mentor: Served as a mentor for AGU in previous years as well as on 3 separate DEI committees. |
Martin Palmer (UK) Current Position: Professor at the University of Southampton, UK Expertise: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Interest in serving as mentor: Want to repay the memory of those that helped me by helping the next generation of scientists. Experience as mentor: Mentored individual undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral scientists. |
Lars Hansen (USA) Current Position: Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Expertise: Mineral and Rock Physics, Tectonophysics, Study of The Earth’s Deep Interior Interest in serving as mentor: Provide advice for early-career scientists and am particularly enthusiastic about the mentor program’s goals and ambitions related to equality and diversity in the geosciences. Experience as mentor: Formal mentoring roles for undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and new faculty. |
Group 7
Meets the first Friday of each month at 1:00pm ET, beginning 4 March 2022.
| Malcolm Johnston (USA) Current Position: Research Geophysicist Emeritus at US Geological Survey Expertise: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Geodesy, Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Electromagnetism, Mineral and Rock Physics, Natural Hazards, Nonlinear Geophysics, Near Surface Geophysics, Seismology, Tectonophysics, Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology, Hydrology Interest in serving as mentor: Developed cooperative programs in geophysics both nationally and internationally and would like to continue to advise and help young scientists develop in these fields. Experience as mentor: Mentored doctoral students in geophysics from Stanford and post-doctoral students with USGS Mendenhall Post-doctoral Fellowships. |
Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay (USA) Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University Expertise: Hydrology, Global Environmental Change, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Interest in serving as mentor: Looking for opportunities to engage with people from different backgrounds and expand my network of collaborators. Also hoping to share the learnings I have been fortunate enough to receive throughout my career. Experience as mentor: Worked closely with junior members of different research groups as a colleague and teaching experience from graduate school. |
Ana Christina Ravelo (USA) Current Position: Professor at the University of California Santa Cruz Expertise: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Interest in serving as mentor: Getting to know early career geoscientists in my field, and helping them navigate academia and help them feel welcome and included. Particularly interested in building relationships with BIPOC scientists. Experience as mentor: Have mentored many PhD students, and many early career scientists at my institution and in my community. |