Speaker: Dr. Jessica Welch, Data Scientist and Project Coordinator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title: “My path to a career at Oak Ridge National Laboratory”
Abstract:  Dr. Jessica Welch shares advice with students about how to leverage the skills they develop into finding careers that fit their strengths. Dr. Welch is a data scientist and project coordinator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where she works on a wide variety of projects—ranging from managing large ecological databases to leading the National Nature Assessment. Before ORNL, Jess studied invasive species and global bat conservation as a graduate student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

The Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, & Organismal Biology (EEBOB) seminar series focuses on biological topics at whole-organism and higher scales of organization. Guest speakers come from universities, governmental agencies, NGOs, zoos, museums, and other institutions.

This seminar series consists of a pre-recorded seminar, which will be posted to a playlist at the beginning of each week, and a live, virtual Q&A session with the speaker. All are welcome to attend! For access to the live Q&A session, interested attendees can email Dr. Todd Pierson to be granted access. The live Q&A session will be held each Thursday @ 9:30 AM.