[SEMCO] Online Conversations for Equity, Action, and Networking (OCEAN) Webinar Series

[Jeffrey M. Brodeur]

Woods Hole Sea Grant is pleased to share news of the launch of the Online Conversations for Equity, Action, and Networking (OCEAN) webinar series organized by the School for the Environment Graduate Student Anti-Racism Task Force (SEGART) at the UMass Boston School for the Environment (SFE). Details are below:

Online Conversations for Equity, Action, and Networking (OCEAN) is a webinar series dedicated to amplifying early career BIack, 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 systemics 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. 

The 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. 

We are  thrilled to welcome of their first speaker, Alia Al-Haj, who will be giving a seminar talk on Wednesday, February 17th at 4 PM EST at the SFE departmental seminar. Alia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Fulweiler Lab at Boston University researching the role of seagrass meadows in the global carbon budget. 

To register for the talk, use the Zoom link here <https://umassboston.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U33I43taQjCPOjyJMmoo5Q>. 

To learn more about SEGART and the OCEAN Webinar series, check out our website here <https://sites.google.com/view/segart/ocean-webinar-series>. If you have any questions, comments or feedback you can reach us at SEGART at googlegroups.com <mailto:SEGART at googlegroups.com>


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