A message from your SIG Leaders

Dear Scientific Communication SIG members,

With many thanks to Kathie Gorski and Geoff Hart for their past work on the SciCom SIG, a new team is getting on board to bring you the value you desire and deserve in your SIG membership. We introduce ourselves at the end of this message.

The Scientific Communication Special Interest Group ( SIG) exists to cultivate excellence in scientific communication through our website, electronic and in-person communication, and web and live conferencing.

The benefits you can expect include:

Based on member feedback, the new team plans to add benefits this year, such as:

Job postings, recent breakthroughs, multiple domains, professional development, resources and references, welcomes and profiles, mailing and discussion lists.

Webinars, collaboration with other SIGS/communities/organizations, social media, book reviews, book club discussions, best of the web.

Progressions, gatherings, SIG information sessions at Summit, local conference opportunities.

Please join the SciCom mailing list, found at http://mailman.stc.org/mailman/listinfo/stcscsig-l

Of course, many hands make light work, and more variety in the work, and more exciting work! Your assistance in any of these or other roles is most welcome:

Please feel free to contact any of us, or the stcscsig mailing list with your ideas, energy, and questions! Thanks!

Manager: Joseph E. Harmon

Joe works as a coordinating writer/editor for Argonne National Laboratory and is a senior member of STC. Over the last three decades, he has edited and helped write thousands of scientific articles, as well as research proposals, abstracts, book chapters, news releases, and technical books and reports. His writings and editorial work have been recognized by several STC awards. As an independent scholar, he has written numerous articles related to scientific communication and three books (with Alan Gross): Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present (Oxford University Press), The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour (University of Chicago Press), and The Craft of Scientific Communication (University of Chicago Press).

Membership Manager: Hilary Ziols (stcscsig.membership at gmail.com)

Hilary has previously worked in scientific communication for the Cannon River Watershed Partnership, which protects a major watershed in Minnesota. There, she drafted the background section for a study related to improving water quality as specified by the Clean Water Act. Hilary has taught biology, earth sciences, chemistry and physics to junior high and high school students, and is now developing her skills in technical communication through pursuing an M.S. in Technical Communication at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN. She is a member of the Twin Cities chapter of STC.

Newsletter Editor: Louise St.Germain

Louise currently works as an engineer for Abbott Laboratories, and writes a variety of technical reports and experimental procedures in her position. She has a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, and a Master's of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering. In 2010, she graduated from a Technical Writing certificate program at Humber College. She currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, and is a member of the Montreal chapter of the STC.

SIG Liaison: Kathy Moore

Kathy is a Senior Scientific Writer/Editor at Reaction Design, a provider of engineering and chemistry software. Kathy is a senior member of STC and has served in various capacities. She has traveled through the lands of UNIX and Mac but currently resides among Windows.

Webmaster: Matthew Hunt

Matt is a Senior Business Analyst with a personal interest in writing, science, scientific publishing and the scientific method and a job that doesn't involve any of these things. Before becoming a business analyst, he worked as a software developer, specializing in open source software systems for the Internet. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.