C-CoMP at Ocean Sciences 2024!
This past February, more than twenty C-CoMP faculty, staff, technical staff, postdocs, graduate students, and Bridge-to-PhD Fellows attended the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM24) in New Orleans, LA. C-CoMP members…
Read MoreHow can we design research environments to be more accessible?
Imagine that you are a new PI. You are eager to establish your own research group and set up your research space. You are excited to mentor a diversity of…
Read More2023 C-CoMP Annual Meeting
C-CoMP recently hosted its second Annual Meeting at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, MA, with 63 members attending in-person and 11 members attending remotely. A majority…
Read MoreA CURE for Ocean Carbon Cycling
C-CoMP recently hosted a team of teaching-intensive university faculty to collaborate on the design of a new Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience, the Ocean Genes CURE. This introductory-level CURE[1] is grounded…
Read MoreHow can we provide effective feedback to our mentees?
Imagine you have a colleague who is mentoring an undergraduate researcher for the first time. Given your experience mentoring undergraduate researchers, your colleague seeks advice from you about how to…
Read MoreCall for abstracts for Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024: Session ED009 – Integrating Research and Education to Diversify the Ocean Sciences
C-CoMP is convening a session at the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting to be held in New Orleans, LA, USA from February 18-23. Abstracts are due September 13, 2023 at 23:59…
Read MoreHow do you support mentee independence in research?
Let’s say that you and your mentee have been working together for some time. The mentee has learned all the techniques needed for their project and feels confident carrying out…
Read MoreHow do I set my mentee up for success in research?
Undergraduates across the country are now several weeks into their summer research. Many are hitting stride – they are getting comfortable in their research groups and picking up research-related knowledge…
Read MoreHow do you know what your mentee knows?
Imagine you are a postdoc and you want to gain mentoring experience before you go on the job market. You volunteer to mentor a new undergraduate researcher in the lab.…
Read MoreNew researchers have arrived – now what?
Imagine you are early on in your career as a faculty member and your lab is up and running. You have recruited a postdoc and a couple of graduate students,…
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