Oceanography Magazine Special Issue on Graduate Education in the Ocean Sciences

为了支持对海洋科学研究生教育的了解和改进，海洋科学研究所将编写一份出版物，在2月21-24日在路易斯安那州新奥尔良举行的海洋科学会议(OSM)上分发。OSM是一个每两年举行一次的会议，由美国地球物理联盟(AGU)、湖沼学和海洋学协会(ASLO)和海洋学会(TOS)支持。这是最大的国家海洋科学家聚会。佛罗里达州立大学提议在2016年3月出版TOS期刊《海洋学》特刊，题为《海洋科学中的研究生教育》。这本期刊将在会议上分发，并将在这次会议上鼓励教师、管理人员和学生在今天的美国海洋科学研究生项目中面临的挑战和机遇的讨论。该特别出版物将：(1)考虑未来依赖于高等教育的研究方向和劳动力需求，(2)描述目前提供的研究生学位和专业发展计划的关键要素，(3)呼吁注意这些计划提供的独特的跨学科和国际培训机会，(4)确定可能需要的变化，以更好地支持今天的学生，并为未来的劳动力做好准备，(5)思考(并提供指导)迎接招募和支持更多样化的未来学生群体的挑战，以及(6)促进关于个人项目和更广泛的社区都能做些什么的讨论，以帮助我们的学生为研究生毕业后的成功职业和生活做好准备。拟议的一套同行评议的文章加上侧栏和科学家简介将促进这些目标。

In order to support an understanding of and improvements to graduate education in ocean sciences, the PIs will develop a publication for distribution at the Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) to be held from February 21-24 in New Orleans, Louisiana. OSM is a bi-annual conference supported by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and The Oceanography Society (TOS). It is the largest national gathering of ocean scientists. Florida State University proposes to publish a special issue of the TOS journal Oceanography with the title "Graduate Education in the Ocean Sciences" in March 2016. This journal will be distributed at the conference and will stimulate discussion of the challenges and opportunities facing faculty, administrators, and students in today's US graduate programs in the ocean sciences at this conference. The special publication will: (1) consider future research directions and workforce needs that depend on advanced education, (2) describe key elements of the graduate degree and professional development programs offered today, (3) call attention to the unique interdisciplinary and international training opportunities offered by these programs, (4) identify changes that may be needed to better support and prepare today's students for the workforce of tomorrow, (5) reflect on (and provide guidance for) meeting the challenges of recruiting and supporting a more diverse future student cohort, and (6) catalyze discussion on what both individual programs and the broader community can do to help our students prepare for successful careers and life after graduate school. The proposed set of peer-reviewed articles plus sidebars and scientist profiles will further these objectives.