Stratification and bubbles demonstration at Tahoe Environmental Research Center Science of Cocktails night
Receiving 2020 Chancellor's Award for Diversity and Community. Chancellor's residence.
Augmented Reality Sandbox activity at UC Davis Society of Women Engineers Project Aspire. Participants are moving the kinetic sand to see how water flows down-slope.
Yolo County Girls in STEM day. UC Davis Civil/Environmental Engineering AR Sandbox interactive watershed activity
Society of Women Engineers at UC Davis Project Aspire Open ROV activity. Open ROV is swimming around a small water tank as participants look on and take turns controlling the vehicle.
Me (Jasmin McInerney) Performing exchange flow demonstrating how fluids of different density will stratify. Demonstration at Tahoe Environmental Research Center Science of Cocktails even. Assisted by Prof. Geoff Schladow (left) and Prof. Alex Forrest (right)
SWE 2019/2020 Committee at 2019 Banquet
Skype a Scientist thank you note
Service & Leadership
Society of Women Engineers (SWE), UC Davis Section
Executive Council 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21. Project Aspire planning committee 2017.
In 2017 I joined SWE at UC Davis and promoted the involvement of graduate students. The following year a position on the board was created to officially facilitate building a community of women graduate students in engineering. Since being elected to this post, I have boosted the number of graduate students involved in the organization to over 70 from less than 10. I have brought over 40 into SWE’s Big-Little sis mentorship program. Additionally, I create outreach activities using my robotics resources, and our Augmented Reality Sandbox, particularly for our annual Project Aspire where we host over 50 elementary school-aged girls. I host regular social events for graduate members and our allies to strengthen the graduate student community. For my community-building work, especially in SWE, I was recognized with the Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity and Community in 2020.
Environmental Dynamics Laboratory
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee 2020
Leading discussions of DEI in our meetings. Creating action items to make our lab group more welcoming and supportive to BIPOC and people of other diverse backgrounds. Creating resources for incoming students to demystify graduate school, especially important for first-generation graduate students. Mentoring incoming graduate students, especially as they navigate employment and funding challenges.
Society of Water and Environmental Graduate Students (SWEGS)
Secretary 2019/20
Planning social and professional networking events. Managing communications including society email account and calendars, industry contact lists. Communicating society activity with, and promoting, the graduate students we represent.
International Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Oceanographic Engineering Society (OES)
Young Professional and Student Activities Committee. 2018-2020
Promoting IEEE events related to the Oceanographic Engineering Society on social media, particularly providing event coverage of conferences on Instagram (instagram.com/ieee_oes). Planning and participating in networking events at IEEE meetings.
International Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Earthzine
Associate Editor. 2018 - 2020
Earthzine is a free, open access, online publication for communicating developments and community interests about studying the Earth and its many bodies of water. As Associate Editor, I solicit and creating content for the publication. Editing and contributing to articles
Outreach
Skype a Scientist – volunteer (2020 - present)
Discuss climate change, oceans, and ocean robotics in virtual classrooms all around the globe with students from middle school to high school.
Society of Women Engineers Project Aspire – organizing committee (2017 – 2019)
Designing, finding resources for, and running activities to expose elementary school girls to different kinds of engineering, from paper rockets (aerospace) to underwater robotics (mechanical).
UC Davis Civil Environmental Engineering Augmented Reality Sandbox - team (2018 - 2019)
Taking our portable AR sandbox to various events, from Yolo county’s girls in STEM day, to UC Davis Picnic day. We design lessons from 10 minutes to 30 minutes and also work freestyle. Talking about how maps work, watershed management issues, and the technology used to create augmented reality.
Tahoe Environmental Research Center Science of Cocktails - volunteer (2018, 2020)
Creating resources for an evening of outreach for adults that explain how autonomous underwater vehicles are used in Lake Tahoe. Manning a station with a science demonstration that is linked to a physical process going on in a cocktail and a Lake.
Bit Project UC Davis – volunteer (2019)
Interacting with elementary and middle school students during the STEM summer camp. Discussing the physics of non-Newtonian fluids while making slime.
Tahoe Environmental Research Center Youth Science Institute – volunteer (2017)
Introducing high school students to autonomous robotics. Using flybrix and other small drones that can be block programmed to show students how autonomous vehicles follow instructions.