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SUMMARY:WAIS community discussions covering race and racism in West Antarctic research and early-career impacts of CoViD-19
DESCRIPTION:<p>We hope that you are doing well in these difficult times. In an effort t
 o ensure the health and safety of our community, we want to let you all kno
 w that the 2021 West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Workshop will not be an in-
 person meeting this fall. Instead, we are planning to have&nbsp;<strong>com
 munity-oriented discussions</strong>&nbsp;on 6-7 October 2020 focused on ad
 dressing racial diversity and inclusion and supporting early-career researc
 hers (ECRs) in the WAIS community.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> One of the defining a
 spects of WAIS Workshops is the encouragement of interdisciplinary scientif
 ic exchanges across career levels, and we want to make sure that there are 
 still forums for such fruitful, engaging discourse among our West Antarctic
  research community in spite of COVID-19. To retain a semblance of that uni
 que environment, the WAIS Workshop Organizers are planning to facilitate&nb
 sp;&nbsp;a series of&nbsp;<strong>distributed science sessions</strong>&nbs
 p;for interested community members that will begin before October. These se
 ssions will meet virtually every few weeks as small groups (&lt;15 people) 
 for a series of short research talks (5-10 minutes) followed by WAIS-style 
 discussion. The groups will be shuffled between sessions to promote diverse
  viewpoints on our scientific questions.<br /> <br /> These WAIS activities
  that are in lieu of an in-person workshop will be at no cost to participan
 ts. We plan to provide details on the activities by the end of July.&nbsp;<
 br /> <br /> In the meantime, however, please reach out to your ECR mentee/
 mentor that you were paired with at the 2019 WAIS Workshop. If you are new 
 to the WAIS community and/or would like to now participate as an ECR mentee
  (defined here as undergraduate to ≤10 years from PhD) or as a non-ECR ment
 or, please contact Lauren Simkins (<a href="mailto:lsimkins@virginia.edu" t
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