About Pier2Peer

• The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) relies on international collaboration to share data and understand the global ecological impacts of ocean acidification (OA). GOA-ON membership extends across disciplines, countries, socioeconomic status, gender and ethnicity.

• Pier2Peer is a scientific mentorship program that matches senior researchers with early career scientists to facilitate an exchange of expertise and to provide a platform for international collaborations.

• Pier2Peer employs an adaptive and self-driven approach to capacity development with guiding principles to focus on user needs at the local, regional, national, and international level and to foster inter-regional and global collaboration.

• The program officially launched during the 3rd GOA-ON Science Workshop in Hobart, Australia (May 2016).

Who is a Pier2Peer Mentor?

Returning GOA-ON participants and senior scientists are encouraged to become mentors. A Pier2Peer Science mentor should be active and engaged in ocean acidification research while at the same time sensitive to the non-traditional views of science that some students may bring to the Network.

Who is a Pier2Peer Mentee?

New GOA-ON members, training workshop participants, students, and early-career scientists are eligible to be assigned a Pier2Peer Science Mentor. Pier2Peer is designed to build community among GOA-ON members and within new member groups and to provide support for new members.

Building OA Observing Capacity

Capacity building to monitor and understand the rates and effects of OA is a well-established need of the scientific community. To complement the effort of GOA-ON, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s OA International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC), and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Pier2Peer hopes to offer in-person, concentrated training for highly skilled scientists in world premier OA laboratory settings.

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The Matching Process

Matches are assigned using information provided during registration including scientific background, region of scientific focus, and desired skills. Participants are allowed to specify mentors/mentees they want to work with. Moreover, once matches are revealed, participants are encouraged to request an alternate or additional partner and provide additional qualifications to achieve a better match.

Match Notification: Participants are notified of their match via email containing the name(s), contact information, and country of their partner. Notification emails also include general guidelines for participants including a request to keep the program organizers copied on future correspondences so that partnership progress can be documented.

Building Partnerships: P2P partnerships provide a number of professional development opportunities including technical guidance on experiments and study design, exchange of scientific articles, share information about capacity building workshops, conference, post-doc positions, and much more!

Additional Resources

More information can be found in the Pier2Peer manual.