Undergraduate Mentoring:

Please contact me if you are interested in undergraduate research experience.

I welcome motivated, smart, capable undergraduates interested in a challenging and rewarding research experience. Our research is highly interdisciplinary with aspects that appeal to those with chemistry, biology, climate, geology and engineering interests and majors from each of those areas currently or previously have worked with us. Not only is hands-on research a great educational opportunity, these research experiences can also be very beneficial for graduate school applications, company internships or job applications and for enhancing your CV for applications to professional schools.

2011/2012 Zhilin Zhang (Master's in Petroleum Eng), Vincent Nguyen (Bio). Alexa Sieracki (Provost Fellowship), Jack Seeley, Susan Oh (Earth Sci directed research).

2011 Summer Alexa Sieracki, recipient of a WiSE undergraduate research fellowship. Zhilin Zhang and Vincent Nguyen research experience. Megan McDonald internship at URI school of Oceanography, Jack Seeley internship at Brown University.

2010/2011 Alexa Sieracki, Jack Seeley both awarded SOAR fellowships, Jack Seeley (490 directed research), research experience: Megan McDonald (Mech Eng), Zhilin Zhang (Master's in Petroleum Eng), Tiffany Kao (Chem Eng), Vincent Nguyen (Bio).

2010 Spring Kristan Culbert (work study) and Lesley Petrie (490 directed research) and Megan McDonald (Mech Eng)

2009 Fall Lesley Petrie, recipient of a WiSE undergraduate research fellowship

*Both Lesley and Kristan switched to Geology Majors!*

2009 Summer Lesley Petrie, recipient of ESRAP funding

2009 Spring Katherine O'Brien

Postdoc & Graduate Student Mentoring:

2009 Initiated the Earth-WiSE listserv and mentoring group under the umbrella of the USC WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering Program).

Committee chair for:
Michael Cheetham (Jan 2009-)
Hannah Liddy (Jul 2011-)

Committee member for:
Lauren Chong
Yadira Ibarra
Sylvia Dee

External Committee member for:
Mallory Pirogovsky (Chemistry)
Abigail Joyce (Chemistry)
Kathryn Griener (LSU).

Recommended Reading:
Feibelman: A PhD is not enough
Peters: Getting what you came here for
Rick Reis: Tommorrow's professor listserv

Prior to USC:

2006-2007 Mentor, Women Mentoring Women Program, Caltech

2003 Mentor, Undergraduate Intern Program, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

2002-2003 Mentor to incoming graduate students, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory