Women of the Wild

Zusatztext

<p><span>Field stations and marine laboratories (FSMLs) are sentinels of Earths climate, providing scientists with the infrastructure to collect data in otherwise inaccessible areas of the globe. Many FSMLs were built around and continue to perpetuate male-dominated institutional ideologies, making it difficult for women, BIPOC, and those with intersecting identities to progress, succeed, and thrive. In a collaborative effort across field ecologists and communication scholars working with women navigating these spaces, this books priorities are to: 1) document the gender history of FSMLs; 2) provide a context for the current organizational culture and understand the current communication climate dynamics; 3) explore current barriers to leadership, success, and factors that contribute to positive communication climates in FSMLs, and 4) explore strategies, programs, and interventions for supporting womens leadership roles, as well as, to develop best practices for policy, resource allocation, and field station design to better support and increase womens leadership roles in FSMLs.</span></p>

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<p><span>Victoria McDermott</span><span> is current Ph.D. student and instructor of communication at the University of Maryland and adjunct faculty at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.</span></p><p><span>Jennifer M. Gee</span><span> is director of the James San Jacinto Mountains and Oasis de los Osos Reserves, field research stations that are a part of the University of California Natural Reserve System and the University of California, Riverside.</span></p><p><span>Amy R. May</span><span> is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.</span></p>

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