Community
Likewise, the EOS department nurtures a supportive and stimulating academic community at Bowdoin, fostering a spirit of cooperation that is reflected in the field, in the classroom, and in the lab. In all these spaces, students collaborate with one another. Each year, faculty also engage students in their own research projects.
Engagement and Outreach
Bowdoin faculty and students understand the growing need for scientists to engage with the public, to join the civic discourse, and to make science more accessible. As Bowdoin’s EOS faculty pursue answers to specific scientific questions and contribute to their fields, they also give back to the community by organizing public talks, offering courses for graduate students or the public, holding academic conferences, and more.
Professional Conferences
- In June 2022, Emily Peterman co-hosted the 6th Biennial Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum at Bowdoin.
Courses
- Phil Camill has offered courses to community members about climate change.
- Collin Roesler taught a NASA-sponsored Ocean Optics course last summer at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center for seventeen graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from across the US.
Expertise in Action
- Associate Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science Michèle LaVigne participated in a yearlong communications program for earth and ocean scientists to contribute her expertise to policy making.