Training for Leadership in Marine Science

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Training for Leadership in Marine
Science Anthony Michaels, Doug Capone, Linda
Duguay, Dave Caron, Will Berelson University of
Southern California Wrigley Institute for
Environmental Studies 2006 Ocean Sciences
Meeting Honolulu, Hawaii
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The Challenge in Our Future

• More interdisciplinary scholarship
• Better connections to the rest of academia
• Help provide solutions and options for the
  challenges in our society and on our planet
• Reflect the diversity in our society
• Training and Leadership to Meet These and Other
  Challenges

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Outline

• Hard Money-Soft Money Tradition-Conundrum
• Issue we reward research over nearly everything
  else
• We must train for diverse careers, inc.
  leadership
• A few specific examples or attempts
• Graduate training for our profession
• Outreach as a leadership training opportunity
• Geobiology - it takes a course to create a field
• Interdisciplinary hires and tenure
• Cluster hires - self assembly for our future
• Bottom Line
• We must cultivate leadership to have it in our
  field
• The future of our field lies, in large part, in
  the discoveries in other fields within research
  universities

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• Professional Development Topics in BISC 585
• The academic community and many different career
  paths
• The extramural funding process who, what, why,
  how
• The structure and politics of a research proposal
  for NSF
• The proposal submission and review process
• How to make, spend, read and track a budget
• How to hire and manage staff
• How to manage the purchasing process
• Leadership and Project Management
• Success in group projects and single investigator
  projects
• Goldsmith-Bennis leadership approaches
• Project Management Issues and Tools
• Stakeholder Connections working with the rest
  of the world
• Ethics in science and education