Early Career Scientists (ECS) Program

Application deadline was 31 July 2023.

At this CARIN regional workshop we are initiating the CARIN Early Career Scientists (ECS) program. The purpose of the CARIN ECS program is to develop a cohort of ECS from Central Asia who are interested in understanding, characterizing, and modeling land systems in Central Asia.

The ECS training will take place over 2.5 days from Monday September 11 until mid-day Wednesday September 13. We plan two days of scientific talks and technical training followed by one-half day of professional skills development aimed to improve ECS success with publications in higher impact international journals. All instruction will be in English only; no simultaneous interpretation or translation of materials will be available.  A key objective of the CARIN ECS program is to improve scientific communication in English.

ECS Training Schedule

Here is our program Monday through Wednesday morning:

Monday 11SEP

0800, Opening Session. Moderator Prof. Dr. Sagynbek Orunbaev (4th floor CH [Conference Hall])

-          Prof. Dr. Timothy E. O’Connor, President, AUCA

-          Prof. Dr. Chynara Ryskulova, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, AUCA

-          Prof. Dr. Geoff Henebry (MSU), US Coordinator of CARIN

-          Dr. Garik Gutman (NASA), Program Officer, NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change Program (LCLUC)

0830 Session 1: Dr. Garik Gutman (NASA), “Earth Observations for Studying Land-Cover and Land-Use Change” [60 min]

0930, Session 2: Prof. Dr. Geoff Henebry (MSU), “Introduction to Land Surface Temperature & its Applications” [60 min]

1030, Break 1: [20 min]

1050, Session 3: Dr. Monika Tomaszewska (MSU), lab exercise on LST data products in R [100 min] (433)

1230, Lunch: [60 min]

1330, Session 4: Dr. Gabriel Senay (USGS), “Remote Sensing Based Evapotranspiration Modeling for Water Use Mapping and Drought Monitoring” [90 min] (435)

1500, Session 5: Drs. Senay and Tomaszewska, lab exercises on Landsat AET products and land cover in R [120 min] (433)

1600, Break 2: [20 min]

1700, Session 6, Review of Exercise Results and General Discussion [60 min] (433)

1800, end Day 1

Tuesday 12SEP

0800, Session 1: Prof. Dr. Henebry, “Introduction to Land Surface Phenology & Modeling Land Surface Phenologies” [90 min] (435)

0930, Session 2: Dr. Tomaszewska and Prof. Dr. Sagynbek Orunbaev (AUCA), lab exercises on LSP modeling [90 min] (433)

1000, Break 1: [20 min]

1100, Session 3: Prof. Dr. Henebry, “Change Analysis with Pixel & Image Time Series” [90 min] (CH)

1230, Lunch: [60 min]

1330, Session 4: Prof. Dr. Sagynbek, “Climate Change & Water Issues in Montane Central Asia” [60 min] (433)

1430, Session 5: All trainers, lab exercises on mapping changes in LSP, LST, and ET in R [120 min] (433)

1505, Break 2 [15 min] (434)

1630, Session 6: Review of Exercise Results and General Discussion [60 min] (433)

1730, end Day 2

Wednesday 13SEP

0800, Session 1: Prof. Dr. Henebry, “Effective Graphical Communication”: (i) Graphical Perception & Its Implications; (ii) Designing for Clarity; (iii) The Hazards of Color; (iv) Interactive Critique of Graphics in Recent Journal Articles [120 min] (435)

1000, Break 1 [20 min]

1020, Session 2: Prof. Dr. Henebry, “On Publishing Science”: (i) Choosing Journals to Target; (ii) Before Submitting the Manuscript; (iii) The Review Process; (iv) Writing Science and upcoming ECS webinars; (v) Q&A [120 min] (435)

1220, Adjourn ECS training [10 min]

1230, Lunch [60 min]

1330, Bus departs to Cholpon-Ata from AUCA campus parking lot

Trainers

(i) Prof. Dr. Geoff Henebry (henebryg@msu.edu), Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations (CGCEO), Michigan State University (MSU), USA;

(ii) Prof. Dr. Sagynbek Orunbaev (orunbaev_s@auca.kg), Department of Environmental Sustainability and Climate Sciences & Department of Applied Geosciences, American University of Central Asia, KYR;

(iii) Dr. Gabriel Senay (senay@usgs.gov), United States Geological Survey/Center for Earth Resource Observations and Science (USGS/EROS), USA; and

(iv) Dr. Monika Tomaszewska (monikat@msu.edu), CGCEO, MSU, USA.

Continuing Engagement: To cultivate the ECS cohort, there will be periodic activities during Fall 2023 and Spring 2024, including additional professional skills training and a group research project with the aim of generating a manuscript for a Q1 journal.