<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Marian Schmidt on The Carpentries</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/author/marian-schmidt/</link><description>Recent content in Marian Schmidt on The Carpentries</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:51:28 -0500</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/author/marian-schmidt/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Call for Applicants: Mentoring Subcommittee Co-Chair</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/11/apply-mentoring-cochair/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/11/apply-mentoring-cochair/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;b>This post originally appeared on the &lt;a href="https://software-carpentry.org/">Software Carpentry website.&lt;/a>&lt;/b>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Dear Carpentries Community,&lt;/p>
&lt;p>How would you like to work first-hand on developing our ever growing instructor pool? A
Mentoring Subcommittee Co-Chair position has just opened!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The leader serving in this year-long position (December 2017- December 2018) will share duties with the co-chair of the mentoring subcommittee, with a workload averaging 1.5 hours/week.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The expectations of the mentoring co-chairs are to host the monthly mentoring subcommittee meetings, facilitate opportunities for building connections across our community to better serve our instructors, and to manage the weekly instructor discussion sessions hosted on this etherpad.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>A Mentoring Subcommittee Co-Chair position has just opened!</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/11/mentoring-co-chair_dc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/11/mentoring-co-chair_dc/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;strong>This post originally appeared on the &lt;a href="https://datacarpentry.org">Data Carpentry website&lt;/a>&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>How would you like to work first-hand on developing our ever growing instructor pool? A Mentoring Subcommittee Co-Chair position has just opened!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The leader serving in this year-long position (December 2017- December 2018) will share duties with the co-chair of the mentoring subcommittee, with a commitment averaging 1.5 hours/week.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The expectations of the mentoring subcommittee co-chairs are to host the monthly mentoring subcommittee meetings, facilitate opportunities for building connections across our community to better serve our instructors, and to manage the weekly instructor discussion sessions hosted on &lt;a href="http://pad.software-carpentry.org/instructor-discussion">this etherpad&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Work first-hand on developing our ever growing instructor community</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/11/mentoring-co-chair/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/11/mentoring-co-chair/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;b>This post originally appeared on the &lt;a href="https://software-carpentry.org/">Software Carpentry website.&lt;/a>&lt;/b>&lt;/p>
How would you like to work first-hand on developing our ever growing instructor community? A Mentoring Subcommittee Co-Chair position has just opened!
&lt;p>The leader serving in this year-long position (December 2017- December 2018) will share duties with the co-chair of the mentoring subcommittee, with a commitment averaging 1.5 hours/week.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The expectations of the mentoring subcommittee co-chairs are to host the monthly mentoring subcommittee meetings, facilitate opportunities for building connections across our community to better serve our instructors, and to manage the weekly instructor discussion sessions hosted on &lt;a href="http://pad.software-carpentry.org/instructor-discussion">this etherpad&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>How I Developed a Workflow for Success in Graduate School</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2016/12/schmidt/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2016/12/schmidt/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;strong>This post originally appeared on the &lt;a href="https://datacarpentry.org">Data Carpentry website&lt;/a>&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>My home state of Michigan and the surrounding Great Lakes area cradles 20% of our planet’s freshwater resource and yet growing up
next to these ecosystems, I knew almost nothing about their biological inner workings. Now, as a PhD student and environmental microbial ecologist, I explore the most abundant and amazing inhabitants of the
lakes in my backyard: the diverse communities of tiny microbes.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>