Welcome to our curation site for materials related to all aspects of a young researcher’s budding career.
Here you will find an array of stories, tools, and examples (both good and bad) to inspire and help your scholarship. Additional posts relate to tips and ideas for post-university job hunting and career advice. This page is created for and by undergraduate Environmental Studies and Resource Management majors, but likely relevant to a wide array of young scientists from many fields.
In particular, you will find postings often related to:
Study Design
• experimental design
• example projects (good AND bad)
• topics/issues/locations which may prove fodder for your project
Quantitative Analyses
• graphing tools
• statistical and analytical tools
• data management tips and tools (excel, database & file management)
• GIS (primarily ArcGIS and Google Earth)
Technical Communication
• public speaking
• slideware (PowerPoint, Prezi, Keynote, etc.)
• large format posters
• photo and video documentation
• multimedia presentations
Career Skills
Note: individual job/internship/grad school/funding postings will not be posted here. Please see the ESRM Jobs group on LinkedIn for these postings:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4541530&trk=my_groups-b-grp-v
Relevant podcasts can be found on iTunesU: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/esrm-capstone/id499823175?mt=10
This website is a pretty good catalog of all the plants you might encounter in the Santa Monica Mountains, native and non-native. The search tool works very well as long as you know what the inflorescence of the plant looks like. There is also an app for iPhones only.
-Erin Merrill