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WOMEESA Newsletter June 2021
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President’s note
With Victoria in the midst of another lock-down, all of us at WOMEESA send our best wishes to members in Australia and across other areas of Australasia that are affected by the pandemic. We hope that you are keeping safe and well.
This last month saw the budget announcement in Australia with anxious anticipation of increased support and initiatives for women, particularly after the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women, but as this great analysis by Annabel Crabb shows, there was a lot left wanting. However, one thing the budget did bring was a new $200 million strategy to improve and ensure the health of Australian soils along with a great accompanying article in The Conversation from Vanessa Wong of Monash University, President of Soil Science Australia.
WOMEESA have reached over 2000 Twitter followers this month! It’s great to see our voice reaching widely. In addition to our online seminars and writing sessions, we’re setting up bimonthly, local informal networking events from June (Melbourne on 22 June and Sydney and Adelaide on 23 June) so keep an eye out on social media (and check the bottom of this newsletter) for additional details. Also let us know if you’d like to organise a local event near you. Hope you enjoy this month’s newsletter!
Heather Handley
WOMEESA News
WOMEESA gender equity paper REACH
Last year a WOMEESA collaboration led to the publication of an analysis of the current status of gender equity in geosciences in Australasia in the EGU Journal Advances in Geosciences.
“In Australasia, gender is still on the agenda in geosciences” provides a compilation of publicly available information on gender in academic institutions in Australasia and success in Australian (Australian Research Council, ARC) and New Zealand (Royal Society of NZ, Marsden Fund) funding schemes.
It also presented available information on gender balance in professional society membership (Geological Society of Australia, GSA, and Australian Institute of Geoscientists, AIG), committee structure (GSA) and award recipients (GSA and the Geoscience Society of New Zealand, GSNZ).
The Women in Earth and Environmental Sciences Australasia (WOMEESA) network was used as a case study to explore the value and role of women-focused networks in driving and supporting gender equity in geoscience.
The study also recommends additional steps forward towards achieving gender equity in geosciences.
We recently took a look at the metrics available to see the paper’s reach and impact.
To date, there have been 1,563 cumulative online article views and pdf downloads with 41% of views from the USA, 29% of views from Australia, followed by France, Germany and then New Zealand. The paper has been cited in three other publications so far. It’s great to see so much interest in this research outside of Australasia and if you haven’t already taken a look then please check it out here.
Online Seminar Series
On the first Wednesday of each month we host a seminar via zoom from a WOMEESA member. Our seminar series aims to increase the visibility of women in science and provide inspiring role models. All are welcome even non-members.
Details of upcoming seminars on posted the seminar webpage here, and past seminars are posted on our YouTube channel here. We’re also compiling a list of talks by women in earth and environmental sciences in the region which you can find on the seminars webpage.
The May seminar was presented by Dr Lorna Strachan about her career journey and being an invisible woman in geoscience. The question time and twitter conversations showed that her experiences are not unique and that many other women in geoscience have experienced harassment and discrimination. Counter to what is often purported, the days of bias against women in science are clearly not behind us. We need to keep this conversation going to make real change.
Don’t miss the next WOMEESA Seminar:
Wednesday 2 June 2021, 2pm AEST (Canberra, Syd, Mel, Bris time)
Dr. Rachelle Kernen, The University of Adelaide
Twitter: @salt_sed_belle
“Creating and Promoting Gender Equity and Diversity in Professional Geological Societies”
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 2pm AEST (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne time)
Dr. Teagan Blaikie, CSIRO
“Aeromagnetic interpretation of the Tanami Region and northwest Aileron Province”
Wednesday 4 August, 2pm AEST (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne time)
Dr. Jacqueline Halpin, University of Tasmania
Shut Up And Write #SUAW
On the last Friday of the month we hold an online Shut Up and Write #SUAW session via zoom. We get together and talk briefly about what we want to achieve in the session, then write for about 50 minutes.
It’s a great opportunity to connect with other members and get some uninterrupted writing done. Even if you don’t have anything to write, you can just come along and say hi.
Next event will be Friday 25 June, 12 pm (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane time) the zoom link will be emailed out to members.
member spotlights
Our member spotlights are helping increasing the visibility of women working in earth and environmental sciences in the region and share experiences. If you would like to feature on a member spotlight page or write an article for our blog page please get in touch with Jess (j.hillman@gns.cri.nz)
Take a look at the most recent spotlights here
Other WOMEESA News
Marissa Betts received the Voisey Medal and Heather Handley was presented with the GSA Beryl Nashar Medal at a NSW GSA event on 13 May.
Huge congratulations to Marina Costelloe on her recent promotion to Mineral Systems Branch Head at Geoscience Australia
Sara Morón was announced as a 2021-2022 Fullbright Fellow and will be decoding the dynamic evolution of the Mississippi River! Congrats!
Some fantastic news that Hannah Power has joined the Editorial Board of @theAGU's #JGROceans.
Meghan Miller was co-author on a great synthesis of the current challenges facing geoscience in Australia and offering some insightful solutions. Read about it here.
Women in Mining Alliance
Image source: Aamlorievi, CC BY-SA 4.0
The inaugural Global Women in Mining Summit was held at the start of March. Over two days 225 representatives from more than 70 WIM organisations took part in presentations and workshops aimed at collaborating on a global WIM agenda.
The summit also saw the launch of the International WIM Alliance, which aims to combine strength of the WIM organisations worldwide to enact real and lasting change in gender equity, working conditions and opportunities for women in the mining industry.
new sTEM equity report highlights the gender divide in STem persists
The STEM equity monitor is a national report on girl’s and women’s participation in STEM. The second edition was just released and there are some improvements since 2015, but generally it shows that substantial inequities persist.
These inequities start early, with teachers and parents of primary school children reporting that they feel that girls are less confident in STEM subjects that boys. Nevertheless, the report shows that the proportion of women entering STEM university degrees is up 2% from 2015 numbers, to 36%. Women graduating from these degrees now also get paid roughly the same amount as their male peers, which is also great news. However, women in VET courses and postgraduate degrees continue to earn less than their male counterparts after graduation.
In academia, the success rate on ARC grants is the same for men and women, but only 23% of chief investigators on applications were women. This is due in part to the low proportion of women in STEM research, which the report finds is currently at 28%. The report also finds that 10% of women and 5% of men took a career break for the arrival of a child, and afterwards women went on to earn less than the men who took a break.
For all the facts and figures, you can read the report here. Want to know what you can do to accelerate change? Last year WOMEESA published an article on gender equity in geoscience that identified some of the barriers to retaining women and what can be done to improve gender equity.
boys and their toys: lack of diversity leads to failures in australian water management
Image source: Lasthib, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Dr Anna Kosovac recently wrote an article for the Conversation about how huge failures in Australian water management may have been averted if a more considered, less ‘masculine’ approach was taken to big infrastructure decisions.
It is an important article that highlights the consequences of a lack of diversity. You can read it here. Failures in water management are long standing in Australia, where Indigenous Land Owners are rarely consulted about decisions that affect their communities, as highlighted in this article by Professor Sue Jackson and colleagues earlier in the year.
new article on racial diversity in geoscience
Figure source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00737-w
Dr Natasha Dowey and a team of UK geoscientists recently published a compelling article in Nature Geoscience about tackling the racial diversity crisis in geoscience.
By looking around your own department, you may already have the sense that the Earth and Environmental sciences have the worst racial diversity in the physical sciences, but the actual statistics are pretty shocking (see figure insert).
The article describes the barriers facing students from under-represented minorities and practical steps we can take to improve diversity. Although the article has a UK/northern hemisphere focus almost all of the advice can be applied to our setting. It would be great to see an article on racial diversity in Australasian geoscience, but at the moment the data doesn’t exist.
WOMEN’S AGENDA podcast
Have you subscribed to the Women’s Agenda newsletter yet? It’s a daily email that talks about what’s happening in Australia right now that affects women’s lives and work. It is written and run by a team of women journalists and it is excellent.
They have two podcasts that delve into key issues in more detail. The first is the Women’s Agenda Podcast, where a couple of the journos chat about the big news stories. It’s kind of like the ABC TV show Insiders, but 100% about issues that affect Aussie women.
Their other podcast is Leadership Lessons, where Kate Mills from the Women’s Agenda talks to brilliant women leaders, sharing their perspective on the critical decade ahead. We particularly loved the episode with former Elle editor Justine Cullen on career goals and parenting called ‘The game is rigged’ and the episode with Naby Maryam about her incredible pathway into, and then out of, academia, and what she knows now about creativity, burnout and the future of work.
seminar on statistics in earth science data
I think it is fair to say that a passion for statistics is not what drives most Earth Scientists. However, in a science that is often qualitative and descriptive, there is incredible power in being able to say a geological phenomena is definitely occurring and there’s no way its caused by chance or creative data interpretation.
Dr Janice Scealy has devoted her career to applying statistics to Earth Science data, and she has lots of important messages for the paleomag and geochemistry communities in particular. She goes into her work in this seminar, hosted by RSES at ANU (don’t let the thumbnail scare you :) ). To see more seminars from women in Earth and Environmental science, check out the WOMEESA list. Do you know of one that’s not included? Shoot an email to our seminar convener melanie.finch@monash.edu.
Women Advancing River Research
https://www.cee.psu.edu/events/women-advancing-river-research.aspx
Opportunities
The Queensland Geological Survey are looking for a Principal Geoscientist. Find out more here. Closing date 7th June 2021.
James Cook University are seeking women applicants for the role of Lecturer, Geoscience to join the College of Science and Engineering on a full time and continuing basis (Academic Level B). See more here: Lecturer (Geoscience)
Nominations are open for the ASEG Awards and Honours and close on the 23 July 2021. We encourage you to nominate a WOMEESA and you can find more details here.
Applications for the CSIRO Mineral Resources Discovery Internship Program have opened for university students (3rd year undergraduate or postgraduate level). The program goes for three months and there are a range of exciting projects available. Find out more here.
Fulbright Postdoctoral fellowships, Fulbright Australia (06 July)
Regular and junior fellowships (Germany), Hanse-Wissenshaftskolleg (15 July)
The Phillip Law Postdoctoral Award for Physical Sciences, The Royal Society of Victoria (30 July)
E.S. Hills Medal, Geological Society of Australia (31 July)
Garry Davidson Award, Geological Society of Australia (31 July)
Early Career Researcher Grant, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (31 July)
Other job opportunities: Research Scientist Hydrologist, Research Consultant Water Quality, Research Associate in Marine Heatwaves, Postdoctoral Fellow (Climate and Agricultural Systems), Environmental Scientist or Engineer, Environmental Scientist
AGU: Contribute to our #AGURocks, #DrawnToGeoscience or #RhymeYourResearch blog series
Do you perform music, create art or write poetry about science? Do you want to show off your talent while also pulling back the curtain to show your creative process? Then contribute to one (or all) of our #SciArt blog series! Learn more about the different series and submit your post today!
AGU: Submit your Postcards from the Field
Are you performing fieldwork this summer? Show us your field site! Submit to our Postcards from the Field blog roll on Tumblr and let us know what being in the field is like for you.
Have an opportunity you’d like to share then let us know!
Upcoming Events
The WOMEESA shut up and write June session
The next #SUAW is Friday 25 June at 12 pm AEST (Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne time), check your email for the zoom login details.
WOMEESA virtual seminar series
The June seminar in our monthly series will be by Dr. Rachelle Kernen from the University of Adelaide on June 2 at 2 pm (AEST, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney time). To find out more and register to attend head over to our website. WOMEESA seminars are on the first Wednesday of every month at 2 pm (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney time). If you want to catch up on past WOMEESA seminars you can check them out on our YouTube channel.
WOMEESA local face-to-face bimonthly catch-ups
With the increased restrictions in May we postponed re-starting local bimonthly informal catch-ups until June. They are a great opportunity to connect with WOMEESA members in your local area.
The NSW meetup will at 7.00 pm on Wednesday 23 June. Registration details and venue (Sydney CBD) will be coming via email shortly. Email heather.handley@mq.edu.au for additional info.
The South Australian meetup will be held in Adelaide at 12.30 pm Wednesday 23 June Registration details and venue info will be coming via email shortly.
The Victorian meetup event will be at 12 pm on Tuesday 22 June at Long Street Coffee in Richmond. Please register here so we can book a table and contact Melanie.Finch@monash.edu if you have any questions or suggestions for meetup locations for future events.
Dorothy Hill Women in Earth Science Symposium 2021
Save the date: 3rd Dorothy Hill Women in Earth Science Symposium, 15-17th November 2021 starting with an ice-breaker on the late afternoon/evening of the 15th and then two full days of action packed in-person meeting. Find out more here.
WOMEESA Newsletter April 2021
President’s note
Welcome to our latest WOMEESA Newsletter! After a bit of a break in 2020, we’re back and with a team of newsletters editors! Melanie Finch, Amber Jarret and I will be bringing you the latest WOMEESA news and highlights every month.
WOMEESA welcome new Team Members, Mardi McNeil at QUT who is our new Treasurer and Melanie Finch at Monash University, who is Newsletter Co-Editor and WOMEESA Seminar Series Co-ordinator, and Melanie is also leading the WOMEESA Women in Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Database initiative.
It is hard to believe that its now been three years since the network launched but what a fitting way to celebrate our birthday this year on International Women’s Day with a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, more member spotlights released and social events. Thanks very much to Sandra McLaren for leading the Wikipedia initiative and thanks to everyone that joined the event, as you can see below, we’re already raising the visibility of women in earth and environmental science. This year WOMEESA will be focusing on finalising our legal and financial set up, assessing our impact over the last three years and developing our strategy for the next three years, as well as running some great initiatives and events!
Heather Handley
WOMEESA News
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website globally, yet few women scientists have a stand-alone Wikipedia profile page. Less than 20% of all Wikipedia profile pages are of women and only 15-20% of Wikipedia editors are women. On International Women’s Day 2021 WOMEESA and the Geological Society of Australia (GSA) came together to improve this and increase the visibility of our incredible Earth Science women in Australasia!
We started off with a training session led by Wikimedian Caddie Brain to become Wikipedia editors and learn how to edit and create new pages. Thanks so much to everyone that got involved and just take a look at what we’ve achieved so far to create new and update existing pages for current women professors and past trailblazers in Australasia! 12 new articles created, 24 articles added to with over 22,000 words added and over 4,000 article views!
Massive thanks to the Franklin Women Team for sharing their past experience of running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and resources and for connecting us with the fantastic Australian Wikimedians.
This will be an ongoing project and stay tuned for future Edit-a-thon events!
We’ll be sharing a new page in each newsletter: Here’s a new Wikipedia page created for Diane Seward, a low temperature thermochronologist and Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, also affiliated with GNS Science. Check out her new Wikipedia page here.
Online Seminar Series
On the first Wednesday of each month we host a seminar via zoom from a WOMEESA member. Our seminar series aims to increase the visibility of women in science and provide inspiring role models. All are welcome even non-members. Details of upcoming seminars on posted the seminar webpage here, and past seminars are posted on our YouTube channel here. We’re also compiling a list of talks by women in earth and environmental sciences in the region which you can find on the seminars webpage.
Wednesday 5 May 2021, 2pm AEST (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne time)
Dr. Lorna Strachan, The University of Auckland
“The invisible woman, 20 years in geoscience. My journey so far”
Wednesday 2 June 2021, 2pm AEST (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne time)
Dr. Rachelle Kernen, The University of Adelaide
“Creating and Promoting Gender Equity and Diversity in Professional Geological Societies”
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 2pm AEST (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne time)
Dr. Teagan Blaikie, CSIRO
“Aeromagnetic interpretation of the Tanami Region and northwest Aileron Province”
Wednesday 4 August, 2pm AEST (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne time)
Dr. Jacqueline Halpin, University of Tasmania
Shut Up And Write #SUAW
On the last Friday of the month we hold an online Shut Up and Write #SUAW session via zoom. We get together and talk briefly about what we want to achieve in the session, then write for about 50 minutes. It’s a great opportunity to connect with other members and get some uninterrupted writing done. Even if you don’t have anything to write, you can just come along and say hi. Next event Friday 30th April, 12 pm (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane time) see below in the upcoming events section for the zoom link.
International Women’s Day 2021
In addition to our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, we marked WOMEESA’s 3rd birthday with a number of events in the region. Here’s a picture from the IWD Morning Tea event in Brisbane at QUT, with an impressive WOMEESA birthday cake!
We also featured more profiles through our member spotlight page of some of our incredible women members. Thanks to Jess Hillman for co-ordinating. If you would like to feature on a member spotlight page or write an article for our blog page please get in touch with Jess (j.hillman@gns.cri.nz)
Take a look at the most recent spotlights here
Other News
We were thrilled that our WOMEESA research collaboration poster at the Australian Earth Science Convention in February ‘In Australasia, gender is still on the agenda in geosciences’ won the People’s Choice Best Poster Award!
Huge congratulations to WOMEESA member Kate Robertson, recently announced as the new President of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG). We know that Kate will do an incredible job of steering the society forward and WOMEESA really look forward to working with Kate and the ASEG.
WOMEESA member Vanessa Wong was recently announced as the new President of Soil Science Australia. Big congratulations Vanessa, we know you are going to do wonderful work in that role.
Congratulations to WOMEESA Team Member Sandra McLaren awarded Fellowship of the Geological Society of Australia.
WOMEESA member Shari Gallop was recently announced as the new Co-Lead of the Resilience to Nature Coastal Program
WOMEESA Team Member Caroline Tiddy won the Garry Davidson Medal at AESC 2021.
Our President, Heather Handley was elected by GSA members as a General Governing Councillor of the Geological Society of Australia and was awarded with the inaugural GSA Beryl Nashar Award at AESC 2021.
WOMEESA Team members Melanie Finch and Heather Handley were selected as 2021-2022 Science and Technology Australia Superstars of STEM joining other Earth and Environmental Scientists Marissa Betts, Hannah Power and Emily Finch. Congratulations to all!
Rare recordings of ancient magnetic field reversals revealed in tassie lake sediment
A cool study by Dr Agathe Lise-Pronovost at the University of Melbourne came out recently, which used a 5.5 m sediment core from the bottom of Lake Selina in Tasmania to effectively go back in time to see when the last magnetic field reversal occurred. She and her team found that it was 41,000 years ago and during this time there was increased bombardment by high energy particles and a very weak magnetic field. In an article in the Conversation about her work, Agathe talks about the implications of her findings for us if that were to happen again today and the cool methods she and her team used to work all this out.
Lake Selina is a small sub-alpine lake located near the west coast of Tasmania. Sediment from the lake was sampled in the form of 2x2cm cubes, each containing a few hundred years’ worth of magnetic field history. Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Author provided. Source: The Conversation
Photo: Care flights
NSW floods and climate change
The recent floods in NSW were the result of a relatively rare combination of heavy and sustained rainfall in some places, and extremely heavy rainfall in others. Following so soon after bushfires, it led many to wonder whether these typically rare events are happening more often because of climate change. Dr Joelle Gergis is a climate scientist and senior lecturer at ANU and is currently working on a chapter about water cycle changes in the forthcoming report from the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She wrote an interesting article in the Conversation about how the water cycle is affected by climate change, and what this means for flood events in the future.
Photo: AP news
Volcanic eruption in Iceland
The eruption of a volcano in Iceland has been all over social media for the last few weeks. The fissure is near Mount Fagradalsfjall, which is just 40 km from the capital Reykjavik, so there have been hoards of people hiking up to the crater to see the eruption occurring in real life. It is a particularly safe eruption - even though the lava is about 1,190°C, it is relatively low in poisonous gases and the eruption is effusive, not explosive. People have been flying drones over the volcano getting some spectacular footage (also watch this one, which melted the drone). Here is the live feed so you can nerd out on this 24/7.
Australian STEM podcast
Avid Research is the podcast Amelia Travers has been trying to make for 8 years. Amelia is a STEM educator and park ranger who loves talking to people about their STEM careers. She has interviewed marine and reptile biologists, psychologists, engineers, soil scientists, health researchers and heaps more. Have you ever wondered how glacier movement and the age of the Antarctic continental shelf both affect marine ecosystem diversity? Or the ways in which the Arctic and Antarctic are different? If your answer is yes, then this is the podcast for you.
The founders of modern geoscience: Mary Anning
Over the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the recognition of the women founders of geoscience. Recently British palaeontologist Mary Anning has taken centre stage, whose work in the 1800s changed scientific thinking about the history of Earth. You probably don't need me to tell you that the life of a woman scientist in the 1800s was not one of fame and fortune. In order to support herself and her mother she searched for fossils in the nearby cliffs each morning and sold them to tourists and collectors. Her discoveries are finally being recognised and celebrated in a number of different ways including a commemorative 50p coin collection in the UK and a wildly successful crowd funding campaign to erect a statue in her honour in her home town of Lyme Regis. Her story was also recently made into a film, which came out in January. It's called Ammonite and while it focuses a bit on her palaeontology work, it is really more about the human aspect and an interpretation of her relationship with Charlotte Murchison, who was also a real person and a geologist. It was a lovely film and it's great to see Mary Anning becoming more of a household name. If you want to take a deep dive on this head over to @trowelblazers on twitter - they live tweeted as they watched this movie and then tweeted many more thoughts afterwards (they’re huge Anning enthusiasts).
Online seminar series’
One of the best things to come out of 2020 was a stack of new, online seminar series’, including our very own WOMEESA seminar series, of course. GeoHUG (humans united with geology) is another newish seminar series, hosted by Jessica Keast from Coresafe and Prospectors. A few WOMEESA have already presented in the seminar series, including Marina Costelloe, Anna Petts, Helen Degeling, Carmen Krapf, Suzy Urbaniak and Jill Terry. Past seminars are available here, and you can register for notifications about upcoming seminars here.
Another new seminar series is the monthly Women Advancing River Research seminar series. The list of upcoming seminar topics looks very interesting, covering everything from sediment transport to river geomorphology. The seminars are live at 11am New York time (2am here) but they are also recorded and the February and March seminars are available to watch here. The date of the seminar changes from month to month, so check out the list here to see what's coming up.
Opportunities
The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes : https://australian.museum/get-involved/eureka-prizes/enter/
Homeward Bound is looking for a new CEO: https://fisherleadership.com/opportunities/chief-executive-officer-69/
Australian Science Policy Fellowship Program: https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/australian-science-policy-fellowship-program
Have an opportunity you’d like to share then let us know!
Upcoming Events
The WOMEESA shut up and write April session
This month it is Friday 30 April at 12 pm AEST (Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne time), here is the zoom link (password: 810058)
WOMEESA virtual seminar series
Seminar #5 in our monthly series will be by Dr. Lorna Strachan from the University of Auckland on Wednesday May 5 at 2pm (AEST, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney time). To find out more and register to attend head over to our website. WOMEESA seminars are on the first Wednesday of every month at 2pm (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney time). If you want to catch up on past WOMEESA seminars you can check them out on our YouTube channel.
WOMEESA local face-to-face bimonthly catch-ups
Looking forward to re-starting local bimonthly catch-ups. They are a great opportunity to connect with WOMEESA members in our area. For those in Sydney/NSW we’ll be having a an event in May. Details coming soon.
Dorothy Hill Women in Earth Science Symposium 2021
Save the date: 3rd Dorothy Hill Women in Earth Science Symposium, 15-17th November 2021 starting with an ice-breaker on the late afternoon/evening of the 15th and then two full days of action packed in-person meeting.
WOMEESA Newsletter July 2019
Inside this issue: summaries of our International Women’s Day events on WOMEESA’s first anniversary, development of a new database of Women in Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric sciences, updates from matters on diversity and inclusion within the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a call for members to join the fantastic WOMEESA team, development of WOMEESA state nodes, call for papers to a special volume on diversity and equality in geosciences, connection with other international networks and much more!
WOMEESA Newsletter January 2019
Inside this issue: WOMEESA's first birthday on International Women's Day (8 March 2019), WOMEESA Superstars of STEM, Networking and more at AGCC 2018 and GSNZ 2018. The new Science and Technology Australia Cluster Representative for Geological and Geographical Sciences, Marina Costelloe. WOMEESA and ASEG joint submission to the Women in STEM Decadal Plan and much more!
WOMEESA Newsletter October 2018
Inside this issue: WOMEESA NSW Networking Event; AGCC 2018 activities - from workshops, to onesies to DIY business cards; WOMEESA logo competition winner; WOMEESA's Constitution and Incorporation; Women in STEM Decadal Plan; Future networking events in New Zealand and Australia.
WOMEESA Newsletter June 2018
Inside this issue: Up and coming networking events in NSW, SA and NZ; Meet the WOMEESA Secretary April Foote and new Blog and Member Spotlight Editor Jess Hillman; Member update and sponsorship call.
WOMEESA Newsletter May 2018
Announcement of the WOMEESA workshop at Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide. https://www.agcc.org.au/workshops
WOMEESA Newsletter April 2018
This issue features the results of the WOMEESA member survey and the launch of the WOMEESA blog.
WOMEESA Newsletter March 2018
This issue covers the official launch of WOMEESA on International Women's Day, March 8 2018, the committee, a current member breakdown by career stage and the logo competition.