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AWG E-MAIL NEWS 2010-7
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CONTENTS
1) CAN YOU HELP?
2) ANNUAL EQUAL PAY DAY RANKING, COMPANION FACT SHEETS SHED LIGHT ON WAGE GAP
3) PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE
4) AGI GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS MONTHLY REVIEW: MARCH 2010
5) MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
6) POSITION OPENINGS
7) CONTACT INFORMATION
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1) CAN YOU HELP?
A female high school student in St. Louis, Missouri has a strong interest in geology and is interested in speaking with (and perhaps shadowing) someone in the field. The student in a Girl Scout and would need to set up the link in the next few days. If interested or if you have more questions, please email Elli Goeke (goeke@pitt.edu ) or call (781 526 2895).
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2) ANNUAL EQUAL PAY DAY RANKING, COMPANION FACT SHEETS SHED LIGHT ON WAGE GAP
Related Survey of Science and Math Occupations Shows Smaller Gaps
To commemorate Equal Pay Day, observed this year on April 20, 2010, AAUW has released a new state-by-state ranking of the pay gap and has collaborated with the National Partnership for Women & Families to produce fact sheets that illustrate the human cost of wage discrimination. A related survey of occupations in science, technology, engineering, and math shows that women are earning 80 percent to 94 percent of what men in those fields earn. The pay gap tends to be smaller in these traditionally male fields compared with the national average of 77 percent.
"The more we know about how damaging the wage gap is to working families, the more we understand that closing the wage gap is also critical to the nation's economic recovery," said AAUW Executive Director Linda D. Hallman, CAE. "AAUW continues to inform this debate with solid research and analysis."
On March 22, AAUW released Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, a comprehensive report on the continued underrepresentation of women in these fields that includes recommendations on how to address some of the barriers affecting women and girls (see AWG E-mail News 2010-6). AAUW's work in promoting opportunities for women and girls in science and math goes hand in hand with our work to promote pay equity and economic security for women and other underrepresented groups.
Observing Equal Pay Day reminds the nation of the inequities facing women, who must work from January 2009 through roughly April 20, 2010, to earn what their male counterparts received in 2009 alone. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, AAUW finds that women earn, on average, 77 percent as much as men earn, and the numbers are even worse for women of color.
"Specifically, we see the Paycheck Fairness Act as one of the best legislative tools to combat wage discrimination," Hallman said. "On this Equal Pay Day, we are urging all supporters of pay equity to ask their senators to support the Paycheck Fairness Act - a much needed, critical update to the historic Equal Pay Act of 1963." The new AAUW ranking of women's and men's earnings for the college-educated population and the workforce as a whole uses the most recent data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
The pay gap varies significantly from state to state. For the entire full-time, year-round workforce, ages 16 and older, the narrowest wage gap exists in the District of Columbia, where female workers make 88 percent of what their male counterparts earn, followed by California, at 85 percent, and then Arizona, Maryland, and New York, all at 83 percent. At the other end of the rankings are Wyoming, at 64 percent, and West Virginia and Louisiana, both at 67 percent.
For the college-educated, full-time, year-round workforce, ages 25 and older, the narrowest wage gap exists in Wyoming, illustrating once again the difference education can make in women's lives. Female workers in Wyoming make 89 percent as much as their male counterparts earn. Hawaii follows, at 83 percent, and then the District of Columbia and Montana, both at 80 percent. The states with the largest pay differences between male and female college-educated workers are Alaska, at 64 percent, followed by Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Virginia, all at 67 percent.
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AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. Since 1881, AAUW has been one of the nation's leading voices promoting education and equity for women and girls. AAUW has a nationwide network of more than 100,000 members and donors, 1,000 branches, and 500 college/university institutional partners. Since AAUW's founding more than 128 years ago, members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day - educational, social, economic, and political. AAUW's commitment to educational equity is reflected in its public policy advocacy, community programs, leadership development, conventions and conferences, national partnerships, and international connections.
Visit the AAUW website at www.aauw.org .
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3) PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE
On March 31, President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and the White House Council on Women and Girls hosted a Forum on Workplace Flexibility.
The Forum sent a clear signal that expanding access to workplace flexibility has become a national priority – essential to supporting working families and strengthening our nation’s economy.
Read the full report at http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/100331-cea-economics-workplace-flexibility.pdf or visit the Workplace Flexibility 2010 web site at http://www.workplaceflexibility2010.org/ .
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4) AGI GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS MONTHLY REVIEW: MARCH 2010
This monthly review goes out to the leadership of AGI's member societies, members of the AGI Government Affairs Advisory Committee, and other interested geoscientists as part of a continuing effort to improve communications between GAP and the geoscience community. The current monthly review and archived monthly reviews are all available online. Subscribe to receive the Government Affairs Monthly Review by email.
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5) MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
A UNIQUE SUMMER CONFERENCE OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN - MAPPING MEANING: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TOWARD HUMAN, ECOLOGICAL & TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES
Mapping Meaning invites women artists and scholars in all fields (areas of particular interest
include radical geography, literature/ecocriticism, geomatics, environmental science, geology
and artists interested in these fields) to participate in a unique summer conference at
Canyonlands National Park, Utah. The conference will be conducted while camping for 5 days.
This conference is inspired by a photograph from 1918 depicting an all-female survey crew. Over 5 days participants will share current research and engage in cross-discipline dialogue. All submissions for discussion topics will be considered. Suggested topics include technological landscapes and mapping; ecosophy; mental, social and environmental ecology; new approaches to environmental justice; and toward a sustainable human subjectivity.
This conference aims to simulate innovative approaches to research and the environment through
interdisciplinary exchange and the cultivating of potential collaborations. After the conference,
Mapping Meaning will support the dissemination of participant’s projects via lectures, community
discussions and art exhibitions.
The conference organizer is Krista Caballero, a multimedia artist who resides in California. She received her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and recently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work explores the technologies of land use and the potential of art to generate new relational and ecological landscapes. Her current project, Turning the Sun, is a video installation and a photographic series, which will address topics of this conference.
Unlike other conferences there is no fee to attend and all food and park fees for 5 days will be
covered by the conference organizer. Participants are expected to cover personal travel expenses to/from Canyonlands National Park, Utah. In case of extreme financial hardship please contact the conference organizer. Dates to be determined upon participant availability, but will commence either the last week of July or the first week of August.
For details on participating and further information please contact Krista Caballero by May 15th:
Krista Caballero
caballerokrista@yahoo.com
http://www.kristacaballero.com
Phone calls are welcomed: 805-710-4275
http://www.turningthesun.wordpress.com
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THE RIGHTFUL PLACE OF SCIENCE?
Great challenges loom before us, wrought by rapid and continuing social change and catalyzed by discovery and innovation. The transformative potential of science and technology tests our ability to understand and shape our common destiny. We are at once utterly dependent on science and technology and yet equally unprepared to govern the implications of that dependence. In his inaugural address, President Barak Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place” in U.S. society. But where is that place? How do we find it in an ever more complex, uncertain, and politically, socially and culturally diverse world? And is the rightful place of science also the place that assures the best outcomes for all of us?
The Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO) at Arizona State University will bring scientists, scholars, decision makers and the public together to address these questions and the way forward at its conference “The Rightful Place of Science?” at the Tempe, Arizona, Mission Palms Hotel, May 16-19, 2010. Online registration is available at cspo.org/conference2010. The conference will feature an uncommon mix of perspectives from such speakers as Monsignor Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican; Gina Kolata, science writer at The New York Times; and Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University.
Conference attendees will explore – amid art, music, literature, media, humor and more – the place of science and technology in society and how, in turn, society can best deal with the perpetually unfolding implications of its own ingenuity. The goal of the conference is to build a strengthened community of engaged scholars, practitioners and citizens committed to ongoing discussions, research, education and action aimed at harnessing science and technology to the core values of a democratic society.
Program
In addition to provocative keynote speakers, discussion sessions will be held with six exemplary leaders who have developed powerful, innovative approaches to managing the promises and complexities of science and technology, including Margaret Davidson, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Services Center; Susan Fitzpatrick, vice president of the James S. McDonnell Foundation; Richard Jefferson, chief executive officer of Cambia in Canberra, Australia; Shirley Laska, professor emerita of sociology at the University of New Orleans’ Center for Hazards Assessment, Response & Technology; Ramesh Singh, chief executive of ActionAid International in Johannesburg, South Africa; and Neal Woodbury, deputy director and chief scientist of the Biodesign Institute and professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University.
The conference will feature additional opportunities each day for discussion: Table Top Salons – roundtables where attendees provide the topics and lead the discussions; presentations by and discussions with the next generation of policy scholars, practitioners and science communicators, who will be participating in separate workshops funded by the National Science Foundation; and ample opportunities each day to continue informal dialogue during breaks and receptions. Attendees also will enjoy the conference ambience created through art, music, dance, media and the unexpected.
Attendees also may choose to register for a variety of optional field trips before the conference opens and after it closes. Destinations include: the Titan Missile Museum and the 18th century San Xavier del Bac Mission; Arcosanti and Montezuma Castle; the Center for Innovations in Medicine at ASU’s Biodesign Institute, where participants will contribute to the immunosignature diagnostics project; the cryonics facility Alcor Life Extension Foundation; Arizona Public Service’s Solar Test and Research Center; several of Arizona’s water canals and dams; and a home-grown biofuels cooperative.
Next Generation Workshops
Concurrent with The Rightful Place of Science, CSPO is conducting workshops for the Next Generation of Science and Technology Leaders and Next Generation of Science Communicators. These workshops, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, aim to build a community of science policy scholars and communicators who can span the terrains of intellectual inquiry and real-world practice. Participants will meet with editors and present at roundtable sessions throughout the conference on topics organized by CSPO's program areas: Responsible Innovation; Sustainability and Adaptability; Science, Technology and Global Affairs; Technological Systems and Infrastructures; Healthy and Just Societies; and Securing Our Common Future.
About CSPO
The Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University is an interdisciplinary intellectual network aimed at enhancing the contribution of science and technology to society's pursuit of equality, justice, freedom and overall quality of life. CSPO creates knowledge and methods, educates students, cultivates public discourse and fosters policies to help decision makers and institutions grapple with the immense power and importance of science and technology as society charts a course for the future.
CSPO’s unique and productive synthesis of theoretical, empirical and problem-oriented research and tool development is driven by three guiding ideas: desired outcomes can drive science; the value in society of new knowledge is determined by how it is used, and by whom; and the definition of the problem helps determine the relevance of the research.
CSPO believes that politics and the ideas, institutions and the people behind them – and not science alone – determine the outcomes of science and technology in society. In this view, science policy is vastly more complex – as well as more interesting and malleable – than merely setting a budget for scientific research and development.
For more information about “The Rightful Place of Science?” or to register for the conference, visit online at http://www.cspo.org/conference2010 , send an e-mail to cspo@asu.edu , or call (480) 727-8787. For more information about the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, visit http://www.cspo.org .
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GEOWEB 2010
July 26-30 • Vancouver, B.C. Canada • http://www.geowebconference.org
Program Announced & Discount Registration Now Available
Register for as little as $375USD
Conference Program Announcement
GeoWeb 2010 and its organizers have announced the details of its industry-leading program of technical sessions, panel discussions and in-depth workshops. New to GeoWeb 2010 is the emphasis on Going Real Time and the technologies for information sharing and collaboration respecting events in the real world. The program is available on the GeoWeb Conference Site . GeoWeb 2010 is taking place July 26-30, 2010 in beautiful downtown Vancouver, BC Canada at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.
Discount Registration Options
This is the best time of the year to secure your place at GeoWeb 2010! Early-bird rates are now in effect- including the inexpensive 1-day rate of just $375USD. As well, further savings are available as on-site hotel accommodation costs have been reduced. To learn more about this year's participation options please visit the Registration Details page .
Keynote & Invited Speakers
GeoWeb 2010 will feature Alex Miller (ESRI Canada), as well as Steve Piotrowica (US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration), Kass Green (American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing) and Geoff Cameron (Angus GeoSolutions Inc.). Additional speakers will be announced later this spring. To learn more about the keynote and invited speakers visit the GeoWeb Conference Site .
GeoWeb is For You!
GeoWeb 2010 is for everyone! Representatives from both public and private organizations are invited to meet, discuss and learn about today's most innovative geospatial and information sharing technologies. Be sure to join us this summer as we explore and unlock the future of the GeoWeb! And if you're looking to make the most of your networking opportunities be sure to secure your place on the amazing fireworks cruise July 28, 2010.
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5TH INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY SUMMIT ON MINING PERFORMANCE
The 5th International Industry Summit on Mining Performance: “Achieving Lasting Improvements in Safety, Production, and Cost Control” has been scheduled for May 10-12, 2011. It will be held at the Radisson, Rapid City, South Dakota.
For more information, www.PSUminingsummit.com/RapidCity
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6) POSITION OPENINGS
Joint tenure-track Assistant Professor
Center for Integrative Geosciences and the Department of Geography
University of Connecticut, Storrs
The Center for Integrative Geosciences and the Department of Geography at The University of Connecticut, Storrs, invite applications for a joint tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment to begin August 23, 2010. Tenure will reside in the Department of Geography in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with equal teaching responsibilities in the Center for Integrative Geosciences and the Department of Geography. We seek candidates who have specific interests in surface processes.
Minimum Qualifications: a PhD in Geoscience, Geography, or a related field by August 23, 2010; demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching; the ability to work at a range of scales and integrate processes across scales; and a research interest complementing existing programs in climate change, landscape hydrodynamics, sedimentology, or tectonics. Equivalent foreign degrees are acceptable.
Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge of GIScience, numerical modeling, or field research methods; and the demonstrated ability to contribute through research, teaching, and/or public engagement to the diversity and excellence of the learning experience.
Candidates may work at the University of Connecticut’s main campus located in Storrs, and/or the campuses at Avery Point, Hartford, Stamford, Torrington, Waterbury, and West Hartford.
Salary is competitive based on experience and qualifications.
To Apply: Submit a curriculum vitae, letter of application, statement of research and teaching interests, and selected publications, and have three letters of reference sent to: geomorphsearch@clas.uconn.edu or send a hard copy of materials to: Search Committee Chair, University of Connecticut, Geosciences, Unit 2045, 354 Mansfield Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-2045. Electronic applications are preferred. Review of applications will begin April 22, 2010, and continue until the position is filled. The University of Connecticut encourages minorities, women, and people with disabilities to apply for this position. (Search# 2010291)
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Geochemist Senior Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
We seek a leader who is internationally recognized, and who has specialized in field-laboratory studies of mineral-water interface reactions, and transport of metal/radionuclide contaminants in groundwater. This scientist will typically have organized large scale field studies, complemented them with appropriate laboratory analyses and geochemical modeling, and developed comparative approaches for the prediction of contaminant transfer.
We particularly seek a scientist whose work has demonstrated multiscale approaches, utilizing cutting-edge molecular level to field level information, and who has made significant contributions to integrating these scales. The successful applicant will develop a research program integrating resources available at Berkeley Lab, the UC Berkeley campus, the Advanced Light Source, and the Berkeley Nanogeoscience Center. This individual will be key member of the Geochemistry Department in the Earth Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and will be expected to develop and lead projects in a team environment combining Lab and University collaborators, as well as colleagues at other DOE or Department of Interior laboratories and facilities.
The successful applicant also will be expected to extend the Geochemistry Department contaminant and transport programs beyond current areas of strength, including mineral-water interface laboratory and theoretical studies, water-rock reactions, predictive contaminant transport modeling, carbon sequestration-related reservoir geochemistry, contaminant remediation, and spatial variability of hydrologic/geochemical properties within aquifers.
As a Senior Geochemist, you will:
Key Success Factors:
Desired Traits include:
Notes
This is a full-time career position.
How to Apply
Apply directly online at http://www.jobclub.com/banman/a.aspx?ZoneID=0&BannerID=232&AdvertiserID=29&CampaignID=868&Task=Click&SiteID=1&RandomNumber=56176 and follow the online instructions to complete the application process. As part of the online application process, please submit a single attachment that includes both your resume or CV and a statement of your research interests. Please be sure to reference where you found out about the position.
Berkeley Lab is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to the development of a diverse workforce.
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