AEG 2021 ANNUAL MEETING
Technical Session #12
From Words to Action: Doing More than Talk about Diversity in the Geosciences (Sponsored by Deborah Green) Join us for a symposium featuring speakers who are pioneers in representing diversity in our industry and others who will talk about ways they have embraced diversity in their company or organization. Our speakers will provide tips for including diversity in interview panels, stories about how embracing diverse backgrounds has improved the breadth and quality of leaders, and how establishing groups to call attention to supporting diverse backgrounds has led to employee longevity. Finally, we’ll discuss how AEG can do better for our association and promote the recognition and appreciation of diversity in the geosciences at the university and professional levels. Come with your questions for our speakers—our last 40 minutes will be a forum-style question and answer session.
Convener: Sarah Kalika
Room: Villa
Time
Speaker
Title
8:00–8:20
Sarah Kalika and Jennifer Bauer
Intro/Background on the DEIC
8:20–8:40
Deborah Green
You Don’t Look Like a Geologist—Why are the Geosciences the Least Diverse of the STEM Fields?
8:40–9:00
Sarah Kalika
Let’s Get Real—Stories from Women in the Geoscience Workplace, Listening to Learn, and Adapting to Cultural Changes without Shutting out Folks Who Aren’t There Yet
9:00–9:20
Minda Moe
What to Look for in an Inclusive Company
9:20–9:40
Scott Walker
Neurodiversity: Challenges and Advantages of Autism in the Technical Workplace
9:40–10:00
Q&A Mini-Panel
10:20–10:40
Masai Lawson
Equity and Inclusion as a Business Imperative: How One Firm Created Change from Within
10:40–11:00
Holly Nichols
Changing the Bureaucracy – Advances in the California Department of Water Resources’ DEI Culture and Policy
11:00–11:20
Danielle Wyrick
To Boldly Go: Field Notes on Diversity in Planetary Science
11:20–12:00
Panel
Panel - Vanessa Bateman, Georgette Hlepas, Kenneth Darko- Kagya and Other Speakers
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 – AFTERNOON Technical Session #13
Landslides Symposium – Line ‘em up but don’t knock ‘em down! – Landslide Investigation and Mitigation for Linear Infrastructure Projects, Part II Convener: Chandan Kumar
Room: Carranza
Time
Speaker
Title
1:00–1:20
Lauren Herbert
Controls on Debris Flow Avulsions: White Mountains of California and Nevada
1:20–1:40
George Freitag
103 Years of Debris Flows, Dodson, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
1:40–2:00
Chandan Kumar
Landslide Susceptibility Prediction in Arid-Mountainous Terrain Using Machine and Deep Learning Models
2:00–2:20
Thomas Oommen
Comparing the Scoop3D and the GIS-TISSA Models for Slope Stability Analysis in Idukki, Kerala, India
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