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Mentoring and Career Resources:This list of resources was compiled from suggestions of members of the Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN). Please feel free to contact me if any of these links are no longer functional. - kek General Guidelines for Graduate Student/Mentor Relationships:Graduate Expectations (modified from L. Soreghan, OU, Norman, OK) download Career and Mentoring Networks:Earth Science Women's Network: http://www.sage.wisc.edu/eswn/ MentorNet – The E-mentoring network for diversity in engineering and science: http://www.mentornet.net Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST): http://www.scwist.ca Career Resources and Professional Societies:DISsertation initiative for the advancement of Climate Change ReSearch (DISCCRS) Career Resources: http://www.disccrs.org/career.html The National Academies - has links to online versions of several useful publications dealing with career planning, mentoring, ethics, women in science, etc. http://nationalacademies.org/careerguides.html American Association for the Advancement of Science http://www.aaas.org/careercenter/ National Association of Colleges and Employers http://www.naceweb.org/ Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society http://www.cmos.ca Canadian Association of Geographers http://www.cag-acg.ca/en/index.html American Geophysical Union www.agu.org Useful publications on Mentor/Mentee RelationshipsAAAS (2009) Career Basics Guide: Advice and Resources for Scientists from Science Careers. download Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering (National Academies Press, 1997). http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5789 Ambrose, Susan A. et al (1997). Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants. Boyle, Peg and Boice, Robert. (1998). Systematic mentoring for new faculty teachers and graduate teaching assistants. Innovative Higher Education. http://www.springerlink.com/content/j1x530g7p8708518/ Burroughs Wellcome Fund/Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2004) Making the right moves: a practical guide to scientific management for postdocs and new faculty. download Brainard, Suzanne (1998). A Curriculum for Training Mentors and Mentees. Seattle: University of Washington. http://www.uwplatt.edu/wep/programs/files/mentor_expectation.pdf Char Associates. (1997). Evaluation of the Electronic Mentoring Program: A Telecommunications-based program for Women in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering (Year Two). A Report Prepared for Chiang et al. (2003) Mentoring: Summary report of a working group from the DISCCRS I Symposium, 2003. download De Welde, K, and S. L. Laursen (2008) The "Ideal Type" Advisor: How advisors help STEM graduate students find their 'scientific feet,' The Open Education Journal, I: 49-61. available at: http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOEDUJ/2008/00000001/00000001/49TOEDUJ.PDF Handelsman et al. (2005) Entering Mentoring: A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists, available at: www.hhmi.org/grants/pdf/labmanagement/entering_mentoring.pdf Lanzerotti and Orell (eds) (2006) The APS Professional Development Resource Guide, College Park, MD: APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development. download Lee et al. (2007) Nature's guide for mentors, Nature 447: 791-797. available at: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447791a.html Muller, Carol B., (1997, Dec.). The potential of industrial "e-mentoring" as a retention strategy for women in science. http://fie-conference.org/fie97/papers/1268.pdf Regents of the University of Michigan (2005) How to get the mentoring you want: A guide for graduate students at a Diverse University, University of Michigan, The Rackham School of Graduate Studies. available at: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/StudentInfo/Publications or download here. Weiler, C. S. (2007) Meeting Ph.D. graduates' needs in a changing global environment. EOS 88(13): 149, 151. available at: http://people.whitman.edu/~weilercs/resources/Weiler_Eos.pdf |