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Biodiversity Career Event; Albuquerque, New Mexico
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
Saturday, November 9, 2019 - Workshop Event
Featured Speakers:



Ornithologist/Mammalogist
Director of STEM Scholars Program, Iowa State University
Talk Title:
Succeeding in the Sciences: advice from an academic outsider who learned how to get inside
Paleontologist
Graduate Student, University of Florida
Talk Title:
When You Do What You Love, it Stops Feeling Like Work: Ups and Downs of Graduate School
Botanist
Program Director, National Science Foundation
Talk Title:
Opportunities for Education, Travel and Research in Biodiversity Science
Agenda: Saturday, November 9, 2019
Location: The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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)