Jun 20, 2017

👩‍🔬 Issue 17: Science-a-thon: Support Women In Science

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Oxygen Mag

June 20 · Issue #17 · View online

Handpicked stories for people who care about clean air.

🙏 Greetings,

It’s Amrit. I’m super excited about this issue of Oxygen Mag, because it’s about scientists. More specifically, it’s about supporting the next generation of women scientists. 👩‍🔬

Special thanks to air quality scientist, Dr. Christine Wiedinmyer, for helping me curate this issue! Besides researching air quality in Boulder, Colorado, she’s the co-founder of the Earth Science Women’s Network (ESWN). It’s a peer-to-peer mentorship organization dedicated to encouraging women to work in Earth sciences through career development, informal mentoring and professional collaboration.

🤔 Did you know? Women make up 30 percent of the workforce in science and engineering occupations in the United States, even though women earned 57 percent of all bachelor’s degrees since the 1990s, according to a National Science Foundation 2017 special report.

💰 Goal: Let’s raise $2,000 together for the next generation of women scientists and help change that statistic above. Are you in?

❤ Love clean air? Please tell the person sitting next to you right now about Oxygen Mag. And, share this on (1) Twitter (2) LinkedIn, or (3) via a quick e-mail.

Handpicked Stories For You 🙌

Support Women Scientists Today

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I personally donated $100 to the Science-a-thon. If you’re reading this, I am really asking you to contribute what you can. Are you going to match my donation? 100% of it will go to the Earth Science Women’s Network (ESWN), a non-profit organization supporting women in the Earth Sciences. Make Science Great Again.

🤔 What is the Science-a-thon?

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Science-a-thon is a one-day celebration of science and scientists - from the lab to the field, from learning to teaching, from routine tasks to major discoveries! It’s on July 13. Only 23 days to go. Science-a-thon.

🇨🇦 "Science is still sexist. I know from my own experience"

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Why do we need the Science-a-thon? Read Kirsty Duncan’s Op-Ed in The Globe. She is Canada’s Minister of Science and found that women researchers in 2017 continue to suffer the same degradations, marginalization and challenges that she did. CANADA TOO.

🇺🇸 Dr. Christine Wiedinmyer | Air Quality Scientist & Co-Founder of ESWN

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Meet Dr. Christine Wiedinmyer. She’s a Scientist III in the Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory of NCAR. Did you know Christine has authored or co-authored over 100 journal articles since receiving her Ph.D. in 1999?

🇺🇸 Dr. Tracey Holloway | Air Quality Scientist & President of ESWN

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Meet Dr. Tracey Holloway. She’s a Professor at the University of Wisconsin—Madison since 2003. She says, “All of my work relates in some way to air quality or energy - from using satellites to study the chemistry of the atmosphere, to using computer models to understand how energy policies affect air pollution and public health.” She’s also the President of the ESWN.

📻 Creating A Network For Women In Science

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The Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed Dr. Tracey Holloway about the ESWN. It has more than 3,000 members in over 60 countries - the largest of it’s kind. WORLDWIDE.

📊 Meet The Science-a-thon Scientists

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Meet the 70+ scientists participating in the Science-a-thon! They are from across many states in the USA and several countries around the world. MORE SCIENTISTS.

A Note From Smokey's Nest 🌲

🔥 Smokey Interviews Dr. Jessica McCarty, Air Quality Researcher and Asst. Professor

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If you don’t know Dr. Jessica McCarty, you should really read this interview. Fun Fact: She’s an expert on agricultural burning and its impacts on air pollution.

☕ How may I help you? If we were sitting across the table from each other, chatting over coffee, chai or a beer, what might you ask me for help with? Seriously. Just hit “reply” and send me a note. I reply to every message, and will do what I can to help. (Yes, really!)

Until next week,

-Amrit Sharma 😷
Founder, AirAirAir and Smokey
New Delhi, India
http://www.airairair.org/
http://twitter.com/amrit_sharma

P.S. Are you on Twitter? Send a tweet “#airairair Delhi” to get a real-time report of air quality in Delhi with Smokey.

P.P.S. Wait. Are you still reading this? Please join me and this community in helping support women scientists with this Science-a-thon!

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