Newsletter-June 2019
The latest news & opportunities from RI C-AIM
RI C-AIM's Career Development Program now live!
Hosted by the Metcalf Institute , the CDP will offer workshops designed to build career-readiness for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and “pre-graduates” (senior-level undergraduates who wish to pursue graduate degrees) conducting C-AIM research at our member institutions across Rhode Island.
Upcoming Opportunities
RI C-AIM Career Development Program, Hosted by Metcalf Institute
Tuesday, July 9, 2019, 9:30-10:30 am
Creating an Individual Development Plan

This webinar will give C-AIM graduate students, post-docs and senior level undergraduates an overview of how to develop an Individual Development Plan (IDP) to help set career goals and develop an action plan to complete those objectives.
Thursday, July 11 & Friday, July 12, 2019
Science Communication Summer Intensive

This two-day workshop will help participants hone their communication skills to effectively engage with different audiences about scientific research. The workshop is open to all participants, but priority will be given to C-AIM graduate students, post-docs & senior level undergraduates.
SURFs in the field
SURF Jorge Vazquez (left) joined RI-INBRE SURF Marina Carro, and URI College of the Environment and Life Sciences graduate students Riley Kirk and Alexa Sterling earlier this month to take water samples on Narragansett Bay.

Check out all the SURF's research experiences on our Twitter , Facebook and Instagram pages!
The 2019 SURF Conference will be held on Friday, July 26, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Be sure to register and learn first-hand about the high impact research our SURFs have been conducting over the past 10 weeks!
Student Spotlight Former SURFs continue career paths
Erin Frates (2018) worked with URI Graduate School of Oceanography's Dr. Roxanne Beinart examining microbial communities in Narragansett Bay. This summer, she is working with astrobiologist Melissa Floyd at NASA's Goddard Space Center for 10 weeks as an undergraduate associate using epiflourescence microscopy to detect microbes in NASA's clean room facility.
Ben Sacco (2018) was a student of URI Graduate School of Oceanography's Dr. Tatiana Rynearson studying diatoms & learning how to catalog water samples through PCR. He is now working as a shellfishing assistant for the Town of Barnstable, helping their team of biologists to maintain the town's aquaculture stocks for recreational purposes.
Other Opportunities
NSF CAREER Program-Accepting Applications until July 19

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
The Nature Lab @RISD's Design Science Symposium-Early Bird Registration by June 30

Registration is now open for the   6th Biennial Design Science Symposium: Inclusive Narratives from Nature , Sept. 20-22, 2019 , an event that will showcase how, through multiple cultural lenses, the design science framework can address the complex, real world problems we face today. 
The News
RWU's Dr. Koty Sharp featured in National Geographic
RI C-AIM researcher and Roger Williams University Assistant Professor Koty Sharp's recently published research on Astrangia poculata, a local coral species that has been ingesting microplastics over food, has been picked up by National Geographic. Congrats! Pictured: In 2018, Sharp and her SURF undergrad Leah Hintz examine microplastics in the coral.
Beinart awarded fellowship to study microbe partnerships
RI C-AIM's Dr. Roxanne Beinart, Assistant Professor at URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, has received the Simons Foundation's 2019 Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Award. Congratulations!
Don't Forget
NSF Deadlines: Be sure to consult upcoming funding/project due dates for faculty and students alike from the National Science Foundation through their web portal .
Grad Student Assistance: If you are a graduate student working on RI C-AIM research, be sure to contact our liaison Alexa Sterling for questions about programming and opportunities.
C-AIM Newsletter Archive: Looking for info from a past C-AIM newsletter? Check out our archived newsletter page !