YES WORKSHOP

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Conference Goals

1. Raise awareness of ongoing Stanford graduate and post doctoral research projects, needs and opportunities relating to environmental issues
2. Build and sustain working connections between Stanford graduate students and post doctoral scholars from different departments working on environmental issues
3. Develop skills for interdisciplinary environmental collaborations

Description of Conference Sessions

1. Plenary "Doing interdisciplinary environmental research"
   An interdisciplinary environmental research team (including faculty members, post doctoral scholars and/or graduate students) will describe the process of interdisciplinary work, including: the initiation of their projects, major challenges faced, methodological tensions and unique rewards of interdisciplinary research.
2. Student panel sessions
   Each session will include a set of research and (where possible) entrepreneurial perspectives, from graduate students and post doctoral scholars, on a similar environmental topic. Topics and panel members will be chosen in advance to ensure a diversity of perspectives. Rather than focusing on data, presenters will discuss their particular perspectives on the topic, including:
   • central research questions or opportunities
   • critical methods and research strategies (for a non-expert audience)
   • anticipated findings and possible outcomes.
3. Poster sessions and reception
   Food will be served as conference attendees network and share their own research projects through posters.
4. Woods Institute communication and leadership training
   An abbreviated version of the Woods Institute communication and leadership courses.
5. Proposal development
   To foster working connections between students and build capacity to plan interdisciplinary projects, we will invite participants to form working groups to conceptualize and present:
   1. brief research proposals,
   2. potential business ventures,
   3. interdisciplinary courses, or
   4. future ideas for YES.
   Seed grant money will be awarded to the best proposal.
6. Keynote Address
   By well-known environmental researcher / practitioner, Dr. Sylvia Earle (http://www.deepsearch.org/sylvia.html