The Early Career Ecologist Section of the Ecological Society of America seeks mentors for our early career mentoring program in coordination with ESA's 2015 Centennial Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Mentoring is an important but often unstructured process that promotes the professional development of ecologists at early career stages. Establishing professional relationships outside of one's institution is a particularly common challenge cited by early career ecologists, though conferences provide an opportunity for meaningful interactions between early career and more senior ecologists across institutions and career pathways. Given this need and opportunity, the Early Career Ecologist Section mentoring program pairs early career ecologists (advanced graduate students and recent post-graduates) with established ecologists across career pathways for the week of the ESA annual meeting. Mentor and mentee pairs are established based on alignment of subject area and career goals. We now seek mentors to participate in the program. Mentors who become paired with an early career mentee will be asked to attend and provide feedback on their mentee's oral presentation and to discuss practical aspects of their careers with their mentee. To volunteer as a possible mentor (depending on alignment with a suitable mentee), please email the Early Career Ecologist Section at [email protected] with a brief description of your ecological area of expertise and career type (e.g. policy, conservation agency, research institution, academic [and type of institution], etc.). All volunteer mentors are valuable as we seek to serve a diverse pool of early career mentees. For more information on the mentoring program and our other initiatives, please visit our website at http://esa.org/earlycareer or visit our mentor announcement directly at http://bit.ly/1H0k7nA (PDF file) On behalf of the Early Career Ecologist Section and our mentees, we greatly appreciate your consideration for participating as a mentor in this program. [email protected] http://esa.org/earlycareer @ESA_EarlyCareer
