Save the date for CascadiaRConf! Website: cascadiarconf.com Twitter: @cascadiarconf There’s not a lot of info available yet - but so far: When 3 June, 2017 Where OHSU Collaborative Life Science Building more details soon on what rooms, etc. Agenda No details yet - but likely to be a series of workshops as well as single track set of talks. We’ll be accepting talk submissions soonish. Tickets We aren’t out to make money - tickets will be cheap and probably free for students....
As ecologists, we often start graduate school worshiping the ivory tower of academia with its freedom to pursue important ecological questions. However, studies have shown that most of us do not end up in academia. Greater numbers of ecology graduates are leaving the ivory tower for non-academic career paths. But for many graduates, moving from an academic environment to a non-academic job may be difficult. In graduate school we are trained to work in a particular way, often with loose deadlines and unlimited intellectual freedom (within reason of course)....