What I can do for you:
While in the lab and after you graduate, I will do my best to:
1. Provide funding for both research and stipend
2. Provide advice and contacts towards the advancement of your career
3. Help with the development and execution of projects
4. Critique your grant proposals and manuscripts
5. Schedule meetings to discuss your progress
6. Hold roundtables often to discuss current literature and your data and experimental designs
7. Show you the scientific ropes
What is expected of you:
In order for you to become a successful scientist and good lab citizen, you must:
1. Be accessible to me and your lab mates
2. Think and work independently, generate your own questions, and keep me updated about your work
3. Make presentations at national and international meetings
4. Write manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals
5. Write grant proposals to attempt to fund your own research
6. Help fellow labmates and learn from them in return
7. Take care of research animals, equipment, field sites, and collaborative relationships
8. Be responsible for your own paperwork and deadlines
9. Appreciate and act as an emissary of the lab and USF
10. Be honest with yourself, your colleagues, your mentors, and me
11. Appropriately recognize the contributions of colleagues in talks, manuscripts, or any other professional product
Some useful resources:
Steve Stearn's advice
Ray Huey's advice
Individual development plan from AAAS
Developing a game plan
Your rights
The life history of an ecology PhD
Ten rules to maintain your scientific reputation
A foolproof grant template
Secrets to thriving in graduate school
The most important question of your life?
Becoming antifragile
GPA and grad school
80 hours a week?!?
While in the lab and after you graduate, I will do my best to:
1. Provide funding for both research and stipend
2. Provide advice and contacts towards the advancement of your career
3. Help with the development and execution of projects
4. Critique your grant proposals and manuscripts
5. Schedule meetings to discuss your progress
6. Hold roundtables often to discuss current literature and your data and experimental designs
7. Show you the scientific ropes
What is expected of you:
In order for you to become a successful scientist and good lab citizen, you must:
1. Be accessible to me and your lab mates
2. Think and work independently, generate your own questions, and keep me updated about your work
3. Make presentations at national and international meetings
4. Write manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals
5. Write grant proposals to attempt to fund your own research
6. Help fellow labmates and learn from them in return
7. Take care of research animals, equipment, field sites, and collaborative relationships
8. Be responsible for your own paperwork and deadlines
9. Appreciate and act as an emissary of the lab and USF
10. Be honest with yourself, your colleagues, your mentors, and me
11. Appropriately recognize the contributions of colleagues in talks, manuscripts, or any other professional product
Some useful resources:
Steve Stearn's advice
Ray Huey's advice
Individual development plan from AAAS
Developing a game plan
Your rights
The life history of an ecology PhD
Ten rules to maintain your scientific reputation
A foolproof grant template
Secrets to thriving in graduate school
The most important question of your life?
Becoming antifragile
GPA and grad school
80 hours a week?!?