The Global Water Futures Young Professionals GWF-YP invites you to register for a virtual panel on "Job Hunting In Academia in a Pandemic" on March 30, 2021, 12:00-1:00 pm CST (2 pm-3 pm EDT). Please join us for a structured conversation that presents diverse perspectives on career opportunities, challenging stereotypes about career paths, and inspires young professionals to plan their next steps during the covid-19 pandemic.

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Panelists:

Dr. Meghna Ramaswamy is the Director of the International Office at the University of Saskatchewan, and has over 15 years of experience in a broad range of subjects ranging from international relations to virology. Her work focuses on internationalization, research administration, global development and the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Meghna received her BSc in microbiology, MSc in virology and a PhD in clinical infection from various universities in London,UK.

 

Dr. Katherine Dearborn completed a Bachelor of Science in Forest Ecology at the University of Winnipeg in 2012 and went on to complete a PhD in Physical Geography at Queen’s University in 2017. Her PhD thesis focused on plant responses to climate warming across alpine treelines in the Yukon. Immediately following graduation, she worked for five months as a research associate with her former PhD supervisor (Dr. Ryan Danby) at Queen’s before starting a job as a postdoctoral fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University with Dr. Jennifer Baltzer, where she spent two years looking at boreal forest responses to permafrost thaw. This past summer (2020), she started a new position as a postdoctoral fellow with her former undergraduate research supervisor, Dr. Richard Westwood, which involved moving back to her home province of Manitoba during the pandemic. She is currently developing a habitat suitability model for an endangered tall-grass prairie butterfly species in Manitoba. Though she has worked exclusively in academia since completing her PhD (in a series of short-term contract positions), Katherine is aiming to land a permanent position as a research scientist with a non-profit or government organization in Manitoba. She is looking forward to sharing her job hunting experiences with other young professionals!

 

Dr. Jeffrey McDonnell is Professor of Hydrology and Associate Director of the Global Institute of Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan. Before returning to Canada in 2012, he was the Richardson Chair in Watershed Science at Oregon State University and University Distinguished Professor. Over the past thirty years, McDonnell's work has focused on field-based runoff process descriptions around the world, leading the new measurement techniques and new understanding of the dominant controls of rainfall-runoff behavior. He is author of ~300 papers and the co-edited Elsevier text "Isotope Tracers in Catchement Hydrology" and the recent Wiley book "Navigating an Academic Career: A Brief Guide for PhD Students, Postdocs and Early Career Faculty". In recognition of his work, he received in 2016 the International Hydrology Prize form the International Association of Hydrological, UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Canada's National Academy of Science), Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and Fellow of the Geological Society of America. He has received the Dalton Medal form the European Geophysical Union, the Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Geological Society of America and the Gordon Warwick Medal from the British Society for Geomorphology among other honors. Beyond his science, McDonnell has served as President of the AGU Hydrology Section and served as President of the IAHS International Commission on Tracers. He is currently Visiting Chair in Water Science a the University of Birmingham and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing Forest University and Ludong University in China where his focus is on early career mentoring.

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12:00 PM - 01:00 PM CST
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