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Our Ethos:

 

We are a community of scientists working together with a shared vision for enhancing conservation practice and our understanding of birds in a changing world using genetic and genomic tools. Our group invests in a team science approach, where people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines work together and support one another to generate impactful science in response to practitioner needs. We value the different strengths that each team member brings to the table, including diverse ways of knowing and being. We practice mutual respect, engage in open communication, and prioritize wellbeing, so that people can bring their best selves to science. We also acknowledge the different approaches we each take in science and treat each other with grace and understanding as we learn and grow. Using an intergenerational and lateral mentorship model, we each take responsibility to create a kinder and more inclusive research environment, help each other learn new scientific skills, empower one another to reach new heights, and pay-it-forward to engage more people in sciences.

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Traditional mentorship typically involves a top/down or hierarchical approach, where PIs mentor mid and early career researchers. Our lab group also follows an intergenerational approach, where researchers from all career stages come together as equal to share scientific knowledge and build community. 

What does success look like?

Metrics of success in science are heavily weighted towards accepted peer-reviewed publications and funded grant proposals. We value these contributions to science, and support one another to achieve these measures of success. In addition, we value and celebrate diverse indicators of success in our lab group, including: 

  • Informing conservation management actions

  • Building new and diverse collaborations and partnerships

  • Recruiting and supporting new members of our team

  • Graduating from undergraduate and graduate programs

  • Participating in community science 

  • Generating excellent science communication (including art)

  • Giving presentations at conferences and workshops

  • Taking on leadership positions within our community

  • Mentoring new researchers

  • Teaching classes

  • Learning a new skill set

  • Facilitating team science

  • Fostering work/life balance

  • Being kind and welcoming to our communities

 

There are many ways of being in science. Our team strives to support one another to achieve their own vision for how they would like to develop and contribute as a scientist.

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Conservation Genetics Lab on a hike at Rocky Mountain National Park during the American Ornithological Society Meeting. 

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