Scripps Committee for Humanity and
Public Service (Scripps CHiPS) was founded in February 1997 by two
graduate students at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the
purpose of encouraging and facilitating UCSD graduate student
involvement in community service. Since then, they've also enjoyed the
active involvement of faculty, staff, friends, and even family members
from within and outside of SIO, logging thousands of person-hours of
volunteer work in over 50 public service projects.
Grassroots Diversity Action Working Group (GDAWG-SIO)
Grassroots
Diversity Action Working Group (GDAWG-SIO) is a volunteer organization
of
students, staff, and academics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
who value
diversity, including, but not limited to, socioeconomic, ethnic, gender,
sexual, ability, religious, cultural, and intellectual diversity. The
mission
of GDAWG is to increase the inclusivity and diversity of our SIO
community. Our
objectives include promoting awareness about issues of diversity and
supporting
current and prospective members of our community who face difficulties
related
to their particular backgrounds and perspectives. To sign up on their
listserv
go here: https://siomail.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/gdawg-sio.
For more information please visit their website at www.gdawgsio.org
CalSpace has opportunities for graduate students to work as mentors
for undergraduates in our website teams, where we translate science
for public consumption. We are interested in climate and marine
biology, especially, at this time.
SIO Graduate Student Sports Clubs
Information concerning particular game times is subject to change and
may not be up to date. Be sure you contact the person in charge before
showing up. Have fun!
For winter and summer quarters, it's that time of year again to play real
football (soccer), a real sport with real excercise, if you want it to be.
The team is coed and games are generally
on week nights or in the afternoon on weekends and they consist of two 22-minute halves. The season generally lasts for about 8 games (1 game a
week) and then playoffs. Costs are $30, to be split by the whole team. If
you want to play, email Mike. Everybody that wants to play is welcome - you're not
expected to have years of experience. The more the merrier, since not everyone can always make it and a few subs are good to have.
Other Student Groups
TGIF
Organizers: Todd Johnson, Rosa Leon , Ben Neal, Tristan Carland, Danny Richter, Xue Fan, Pete Barry
Are you interested in learning more about local plants and animals?
Are you curious about what you are seeing when you are beachcombing, snorkeling, diving, or doing field work in San Diego? If so, come by the "Species ID Club", an informal monthly meeting where we teach each other about the critters around us. It
works sort of like a journal club, where we switch off who is the "presenter" and they lead the session. We try to use mostly live samples and specimens from the SIO collections. Ecologists and non-ecologists alike are welcome (and get a lot out of it). If you are not interested in presenting a session, you
can bring the snacks for a session.
JED is run by UCSD graduate students, based at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
Intended for a general audience, it was the first journal to combine environmental and developmental issues and
includes discourse on political science, economics, law and public policy. Student volunteers review papers for readability
and suitability to the journal before they are sent to peer reviewers. Some amount of commitment involved, Scripps students
welcome.
We are a group of graduate students who have recently
founded a seminar series dealing with science and policy issues. We are bringing in speakers regularly
during the school year, both people who have scientific Ph.D.s and have pursued non-academic careers in
government, non-profits, or industry, as well as specialists in related fields such as environmental law
or scientific journalism. Part of our goal is to expose students to viable career options for scientists
outside of academia.
