9:00 - 9:30          Breakfast/meet & Greet (9:00-9:30)

9:30 - 9:35            Intro and Logistics (Anna Monfils, Professor and Director, CMU Herbarium)

9:35 - 9:45            Welcome from Host Museum (Deb Novak, Chief of Education, New Mexico Museum of

                              Natural History)

9:45 - 10:00         Defining what you need: making the most of this opportunity (Gabriela Hogue,

                              Collections Manager, Ichthyology North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences)

10:00 - 10:15       Discussion

10:15 - 10:30       Succeeding in the Sciences: advice from an academic outsider who learned how to get

                              inside (Corey Welch, Director, STEM Scholars Program, Iowa State University)

10:30 - 10:45       Discussion

10:45 - 11:00     Break

11:00 - 11:15       When You Do What You Love, it Stops Feeling Like Work: Ups and Downs of Graduate

                              School (Jeanette Pirlo, Research Assistant, Florida Museum of Natural History)

11:15 - 11:30       Discussion

11:30 - 12:30       Museum Tours

12:30 - 1:15       Lunch provided

1:15 - 1:30           Opportunities for Education, Travel and Research in Biodiversity Science (Roland

                              Roberts, Program Director, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON),

                              Operations Division of Biological Infrastructure Directorate for Biological Sciences)

1:30-1:45             Discussion

1:45 - 2:15           Applying to Graduate School (Anna Monfils) PDF of presentation

2:15 - 3:00           Discussion and Questions for Panel on Applying to Graduate School:

                              Mechelle Crazy Thunder (Career Center, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute);

                              Heather Fitzgerald (School of Math Science and Engineering, Central New Mexico

                              Community College); Tony Marin, (Assistant VP Student Affairs, New Mexico State

                              University, NMSU); Cheryl Martin (Senior Academic Advisor, Biology Graduate Program

                              Coordinator, University of New Mexico); Michael Ray (American Indian Program,

                              NMSU); Roland Roberts, Program Director, National Ecological Observatory Network 

                              (NEON); Emily Stern (Center for Diversity and Integrated Learning, Santa Fe Community

                              College)

3:00 - 3:15         Break

3:15 - 4:15          Discussion and Questions for Careers in Biodiversity Science Panelists: 

                             Katelyn P. Driscoll (US Forest Service); D. Westin Furr (New Mexico Fish and Wildlife

                             Conservation Office, NMFWCO); Debra HiIl (US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological

                             Services); Donavan Jackson (Wingate Highschool); Gwen Kolb (US Fish and Wildlife

                             Service, PFW);  Rachel Loehman (US Geological Service); Maria Mullins (Bureau of Land

                             Management); Teresa Mayfield-Meyer (Collections Assistant in UNM Genomic

                             Resources Collection); Bob Sivinski (Botanist)

4:15 - 5:30          Early Evening Reception – Opportunity to meet and speak with Featured 

                             Speakers, Graduate School Advisors and Career Service Representatives, Local

                             Professionals, and Faculty Mentors 

 

Faculty Mentors:

Donovan Bailey (Professor of Plant Systematics, New Mexico State University, NMSU); Kevin Floyd (Lecturer, Biological Sciences, Assistant Botanical Curator, Chihuahuan Desert Gardens, The University of Texas at El Paso, UTEP); Melvin Foster (Science Laboratory Technician, Navajo Technical University); Ross A. McCauley (Associate Professor of Biology; Curator, Fort Lewis College Herbarium, Fort Lewis College); Neil Snow (Associate Professor of Biology/Director T.M. Sperry Herbarium, Pittsburg State University); Vicky Zuang (Collections Manager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections, UTEP)