Outreach & Diversity
UTChron/Stockli Group Commitment to Outreach and Diversity and Equality Efforts
The UTChron laboratory and research group is committed to outreach and eduction and promoting diversity and equality. The PI and graduate students have been involved in minority outreach, in promoting diversity and equality in Geosciences. Our group has focused on recruiting efforts with the goal of exposing minority (esp. Latinx) students to cutting-edge geochemistry, geochronology, and thermochronology and their application to geology, tectonics, petrology, and stratigraphy. Research experience is key to successful applications for graduate school or employment. Stockli been engaged in over a decade of recruiting and training Latinx graduate students and teaching short courses and training students through summer internships (See below). These efforts have been supported by NSF, the Jackson School of Geosciences, and industry.
NEXT OPPORTUNITY SUMMER 2021/PRÓXIMA OPORTUNIDAD 2021
HeLIO (Helium Latinx Internship and Outreach) Program
Internship and Outreach Program for Latinx Undergraduate students in Tectonics and Geo- and Thermochronometry at the University of Texas at Austin. Goal of the HeLIO program is to offer exposure, training, and research opportunities for American Lantinx students through summer internships at the UTChron Laboratory. These summer HeLIO internships are 2-3 month in length and provide travel costs, on-campus accommodation, and monthly stipend as well as field and laboratory research experience and training. Laboratory and field training is supplemented by short courses. Each student also has a graduate student or postdoc mentor assigned during the internship. For more information please contact Dr. Daniel Stockli (stockli@jsg.utexas.edu)
Programa de pasantías y alcance para estudiantes Latinx en Tectónica y Geo-Termochronometría en la Universidad de Texas en Austin. El objetivo del programa HeLIO es ofrecer oportunidades de exposición, capacitación e investigación para los estudiantes Lantinx a través de pasantías de verano en el laboratorio UTChron. Las pasantías de verano tienen una duración de 2-3 meses e incluyen costos de viaje, alojamiento en el campus de UT y estipendio mensual, así como experiencia y capacitación para la investigación en laboratorio y campo. La formación dentro del laboratorio y en el campo es complementada con cursos cortos. A cada estudiante también se le asigna un estudiante de posgrado o un mentor de postdoctorado durante la pasantía. Para mayor información, favor de comunicarse con el Dr. Daniel Stockli (stockli@jsg.utexas.edu)
Past HeLIO participants at UT
2014 – Claudia Roig Gonzalez (UPRM), Doris J. Rivera Santiago (UPRM), Joe Kendall Salinas (UT)
2016 – Viridis Miranda Berrocales (UPRM), Kimberly Mendez Mendez (UPRM), Eduardo Gonzalez Lugo (UPRM)
2018 – Jose Corchado Albelo (UPRM), Sahira Cancel Vazquez (UPRM)
2020 – COVID-10 cancellation