15  Professional Development

16 Professional Development

I encourage all group member to attend (at least)

• One conference or workshop per year. Our group’s mission is inherently collaborative, and this outreach is important.
• Seminars, webinars, and classes that will help you gain skills and knowledge related to your current work or work that you would like to do. For example:
• On Campus: TRIPODS ecosystem genomics, data7 seminars, phenomics)
• Posit Webinars
• Help writing grants and papers.
  • (Learn) and use the Pivot database to identify opportunities.

The University of Arizona provides a number of professional development opportunities.

• https://ce.arizona.edu/professional-development

• Funding: you have the opportunity to seek external funding - this will help with your professional development and our bottom line.

• All University of Arizona employees age 21-45 should consider joining “Tucson Young Professionals”. The U of A covers membership fees (normally $200/y) - see this website for more information).

17 Publishing

Documentation, GitHub threads, Slack Discussions are all great places to find inspiration for publishable units; peer reviewed publications help provide an academic foundation for our group’s contributions, with outreach as well as future funding. See more about authorship here.