What is the CLIVAR ECS Network

Starting out in science can be a hard task, wether you are at undergraduate, masters, PhD or post doctoral level. The choices that you could make to set the course of your career may seem daunting and you may ask lots of questions to try and determine if this career path is right for you ...

 

“What comes next … Should I do a PhD?”
             “How do I carry out research and write proposals at the same time?”
                               “What can I use my PhD for apart from research?”
                                                   “What can I do with my PhD outside academia?”

 

With this in mind CLIVAR decided to set up an ECS network to firstly act as a resource for Early Career Scientists (ECS) to try and answer some of these questions and act as a reource of information for undergraduates, Masters, PhDs and post doctoral researchers. 

 

Who can join?

The CLIVAR ECS Network is aimed at anyone who feels like they are still in the early stages of their scientific career. Whether you are an undergraduate, masters or PhD student just starting out at the beginning of your career, or you are a few post docs down the line but still havent secured that permanent position, you can join our network. If you feel like an ECS then you probably are. 

 

What will I gain from joining?

The resources that we put up on the website are clearly free for all to see and use. However, if you join the CLIVAR ECS network you will

1) Be able to connect with many other ECS around the world. Using our searchable database you can look up and connect with people in your area of interest around the world.

2) Recieve our CLIVAR ECS newsletter keeping you up to date with the most recent jobs postings, studentships, fellowship application deadlines that are listed on the CLIVAR ECS web page

3) Find out about CLIVAR related events and meetings

4) Get involved with the broader CLIVAR research community and find out about what goes on in international CLIVAR.

 

​Can I get involved more directly with the ECS Network?

Currently the CLIVAR ECS network is a top down organisational structure. We are providing the ideas and resources for the network as it stands currently. However, for a sustainable network we want you to come up with ideas as to how you want the network to run and function. Ultimately we want this to be a bottom up structure, run by ECS.

So we are on the lookout for motivated, interested and enthusiastic people to help the network get established and come up with new ideas for how to move the network onwards and upwards.