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are pleased to advertise the second speaker of the OCEAN
series is today!<br>
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class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">OCEAN
is a webinar series dedicated to amplifying early career
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) marine
researchers and professionals in New England funded by Woods
Hole Sea Grant. Over the past three decades, the racial and
ethnic composition of advanced marine sciences degree holders,
tenured faculty in geosciences, and leadership in
environmental organizations has changed very little. This
stagnation is credited to myriad barriers, such as systemic
biases in gender and economics and the paucity of the
school-to-career pipelines for BIPOC in the sciences. With
COVID-19 exacerbating these barriers, we must act in a timely
and urgent manner to support BIPOC marine researchers and
professionals in advancing their careers.</span></span><span
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objective of the webinar series is to create a platform for
early-career BIPOC researchers and professionals to share
their research and engage with a community of students,
faculty and researchers in the marine sciences.</span></span><span
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<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">The
second speaker, Dr. Fatma Gomaa, will be giving a seminar talk
on </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span
style="color:white;background:#7F7F00" lang="EN-GB">Wednesday,
March 3rd at 4 PM EST</span></b></span><span
class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"> at
the SFE departmental seminar. </span></span><span
style="color:black">Dr. Gomaa is a Research Associate at Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution studying marine protists in
challenging environments from polluted arsenic water bodies to
deep sea environments. </span><span style="color:black"
lang="EN-US">If you are an undergraduate at UMass Boston, join
Dr. Gomaa’s ‘Meet the Speaker’ event right after the webinar
to learn more about her research and pathway in science. </span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Register for the webinar </span><span
style="color:black"><a
href="https://umassboston.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B1OZSoLOSgaO4cc5tjBaww"
target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">here</span></a></span><span
style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> and the ‘Meet the Speaker’
event </span><span style="color:black"><a
href="https://umassboston.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArcemurT8oHtWS21d7UMI8WYw7UMrj-XSN"
target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">here</span></a></span><span
style="color:black" lang="EN-US">. </span><span
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">To
learn more about SEGART and the OCEAN Webinar series, please
visit the website </span></span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe
UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/segart/ocean-webinar-series"
target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#044A91"
lang="EN-GB">here</span></span></a></span><span
class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">. If
you have any questions, comments or feedback you can reach
SEGART at <a href="mailto:SEGART@googlegroups.com"><span
style="color:#044A91">SEGART@googlegroups.com</span></a></span></span><span
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Jennie Rheuban (she/her)
Research Specialist
Woods Hole Sea Grant Research Coordinator
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
MS #02
Woods Hole, MA 02543
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jrheuban@whoi.edu">jrheuban@whoi.edu</a>
508-289-3782</pre>
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