Julie Libarkin

Julie Carol Libarkin is a professor of Earth Sciences and Director of the Geocognition Laboratory at Michigan State University. Her research considers how people understand and make decision about the planet. She is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. She also researches and addresses inequality in academia, and tracks academic sexual misconduct cases.

Julie Libarkin
Alma materUniversity of Arizona (PhD)
Michigan State University
Scientific career
InstitutionsMichigan State University
Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
ThesisGeophysical applications in compressional orogens (1999)

Early life and education

Libarkin studied physics and geology at the College of William & Mary and graduated in 1994.[1] She moved to the University of Arizona for her graduate studies, where she studied palaeomagnetism and cosmogenic isotopes.[2] Upon graduation, Libarkin switched her focus to tectonic and geocognition.[1]

Research and career

Libarkin was appointed a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She was made a Research Associate in 2002. In 2003 Libarkin was appointed Assistant Professor at Ohio University. She moved to Michigan State University in 2006, where she was made Director of Educational Research in 2011. She was promoted to Professor in 2016, where she Directs the Georecognition Research Laboratory.[3] She investigates how people see and understand the Earth, and how this impacts the decisions they make.[4]

Academic service

Libarkin is involved with research and mentoring to tackle inequality in academia. She has created a database of reported sexual misconduct cases.[5][6][7] As of 2020, the database includes over 1,000 cases – all of which included substantiated reports, institutional findings and legal outcomes.[8][5] Libarkin has investigated sexual harassment in the physics undergraduate community.[9] She serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education.[10][11] She has called for job applicants to be required to disclose whether they have had formal or informal findings of misconduct against them.[12]

Libarkin has been involved with the transformation of science education, including creating a mechanism to better understand the interactions of science and policy.[13] She serves as a member of the Create for STEM initiative.[14]

Awards and honours
  • 2008 Michigan State University Lorena V. Blinn Endowed Teaching Award[15]
  • 2014 Michigan State University Global Innovation Fellow
  • 2015 Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America[16]
  • 2017 Geological Society of America Top Geoscience Paper of the Year[17]
  • 2018 Association of Women Geoscientists Exchange Award[18]
  • 2019 Commission on the Status of Women Top Paper in the Open Category

Selected publications
  • Libarkin, Julie C.; Anderson, Steven W. (September 2005). "Assessment of Learning in Entry-Level Geoscience Courses: Results from the Geoscience Concept Inventory". Journal of Geoscience Education. 53 (4): 394–401. Bibcode:2005JGeEd..53..394L. doi:10.5408/1089-9995-53.4.394. ISSN 1089-9995.
  • Garzione, Carmala N.; Molnar, Peter; Libarkin, Julie C.; MacFadden, Bruce J. (July 2007). "Reply to Comment on "Rapid late Miocene rise of the Bolivian Altiplano: Evidence for removal of mantle lithosphere" by Garzione et al. (2006), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 241 (2006) 543–556". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 259 (3–4): 630–633. Bibcode:2007E&PSL.259..630G. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.054. ISSN 0012-821X.
  • Libarkin, Julie C.; Kurdziel, Josepha P.; Anderson, Steven W. (November 2007). "College Student Conceptions of Geological Time and the Disconnect Between Ordering and Scale". Journal of Geoscience Education. 55 (5): 413–422. Bibcode:2007JGeEd..55..413L. doi:10.5408/1089-9995-55.5.413. ISSN 1089-9995.

Libarkin has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geoscience Education.[16]

gollark: I would of course replace the English lesson badness with bringing arbitrary books in to read yourself.
gollark: School but instead of reading random poems you memorise 'life skills' would be quite ae ae ae, as they say.
gollark: If I were to redesign school, it would be much less regimented (you would not be grouped by year etc.), more flexible (an actually sane schedule and more/earlier choice of subjects), and focus on more general skills (not overly specific reading of books, or learning procedures for specific maths things, or that sort of thing). Additionally, more project-based work and more group stuff.
gollark: Those are specific uses of some of those things, yes. Which is why those are important. Although programming isn't intensely mathy and interest is trivial.
gollark: I assume you mean interpersonal? School is really bad for that as it stands because you're artificially segmented into people of ~exactly the same age in a really weird environment.

References
  1. "Excellence in Teaching Mathematics and Science: Research and Practice". www.math.uic.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  2. "GeoDaze 96 Information Service". earth.geo.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  3. Matthews, Charles H.; Liguori, Eric W. (2018). Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy – 2018. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78811-495-0.
  4. "Libarkin, Julie C". ees.natsci.msu.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  5. "Why one academic spends hours a week putting together a spreadsheet of documented harassment cases, names and all". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  6. Goldstone, Elsa Partan, Heather. "Scientist Publishes A List Of Known Harassers in Academia". www.capeandislands.org. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  7. Diep, Francie. "Inside the Campaign to Strip Harassers of Their Scientific Honors". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  8. Emerson, Sarah (2018-10-10). "A New Bill Vows to Combat STEM's Sexual Harassment Problem". Vice. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  9. Libarkin, Julie (2019-04-22). "Viewpoint: Yes, Sexual Harassment Still Drives Women Out of Physics". Physics. 12. doi:10.1103/Physics.12.43.
  10. PGA. "AdvisoryCmte". sites.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  11. "Past Editors and Associate Editors". JGE. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  12. Maxmen, Amy (2020-02-24). "Biologist exits prestigious post years after violating sexual-harassment policy". Nature. 579 (7797): 15–16. Bibcode:2020Natur.579...15M. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00491-w. PMID 32127700.
  13. "Leveraging scientists' perceptions for successful interactions with policy makers". phys.org. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  14. "| CREATE for STEM Institute at MSU". create4stem.msu.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  15. "Faculty Teaching Awards". cisgs.natsci.msu.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  16. "MSU's Libarkin Named Geological Society of America Fellow". Research at Michigan State University. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  17. "Top Geoscience Papers from 2016". Speaking of Geoscience. 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  18. "Excellence Awards for Dr. Julie Libarkin and Austin Parish". ees.natsci.msu.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
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