GC TOOLKIT INTERVIEW TEMPLATE

2009 Version:

 Everyone should ask some of these questions-- but feel free to add
additional ones as they occur to you during the interview itself.

1.  What is your definition of Global Change?  

2.  What do you view as the really exciting questions and opportunities in Global Change research?

3. What global change-related projects are you working on?  How do you involve graduate students in your research?

4.  Do you view your global change research projects as differing from more traditional disciplinary research projects?  If so, how?

5. How much do you think about the "big picture" of global change in your day-to-day research and teaching activities?

6.  How necessary is it to interact interdisciplinarily in your research?  What disciplines are involved in your research?   What are the "plusses and minuses" of doing interdisciplinary research?

7.  Do you think that global change research is fulfilling the needs of society?  If not, should it?  If not, and it should . . . how could it?

8.  What incentives and/or disincentives act upon you in deciding whether to engage in advocacy based on your global change research?

9.  What is your best advice for a bright and eager global change scientist "in training" here at the University of Arizona?

10. Do you feel your personal behavior has changed because of what you are discovering in your global change research?