Polar Impact welcomes members and the public to join the final event in the inaugural Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative Event Series, during which participants will learn how to create and perfect their CVs and resumes for applications in academia and industry. Two experts will talk about how to make your CV stand out, avoid common mistakes, and tailor your application materials for the academic or industry position you are applying for. The guest speakers will lead a demonstration on how to improve an example resume, and participants will be placed in breakout rooms to peer-review each other’s CVs and resumes using what they’ve learned.
Guest Speakers
Dr. Jennifer Glass is an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Program Director of the interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences B.S. degree at Georgia Tech. She earned BSc degrees in Earth and Space Sciences and Oceanography from the University of Washington, a PhD in Geological Sciences from Arizona State University, and a NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellowship at Caltech. Her education and outreach efforts focus on diversifying the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and democratizing science through open-access science communication. She co-created and maintains the “Database of Databases of Diverse Speakers in STEM” and the “Database of Geoscientists of Color”.
Dr. Jeanine Ash is a biogeochemist, ocean-lover, gardener, knitter and proud dog mom. She spent over a decade working on materials recovered from scientific ocean drilling expeditions on topics including climate over the Holocene, what the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been up to, and how the geochemistry of methane can tell us what microbes are doing below the seafloor. She is now putting her Earth system knowledge to use working on carbon dioxide removal to keep global temperature below 1.5 °C.