2019 AGU Centennial Fall Meeting: Science Nexus Panel Discussion on Parenting within Academia12/16/2019 Ever since we, my wife and I, decided to have a child, while both of us were 3rd year doctoral students, we have fielded a myriad of comments, questions, and concerns about this decision. Weren't we worried about our productivity or meeting our graduate studies milestones? How could we make this work on graduate stipends? How can we manage our child and a dissertation? Let's be clear, we asked ourselves all of these questions and more when we decided to take this leap. And these questions continued as we've worked through our postdoctoral years, during which time we "acquired" a 2nd child. The answers, if they exist, to these questions are organic and come as you work through the process, which critically involves learning from the experiences of others who have taken this jump before you. There needs to be more space within academia to have frank and open discussions about how to navigate the challenges of both working towards a meaningful professional career AND a fulfilling personal life. This is not only for the cathartic benefits of experience sharing, but also to help develop institutional and advocacy strategies to better support and aid those with parenting responsibilities and, of equal importance, those who want to do this. Sunny and my conversations with each other and friends/colleagues has transformed into a joint side project. We approached the American Geophysical Union about our idea and their response and support has been tremendous. As part of this effort, we organized a panel discussion on this topic at the most recent Fall Meeting, which was featured in the Centennial Central programming (see video below; our session is the 1st hour). This conversation has never happened directly within AGU and we're excited to have been able to help facilitate it at such a large-scale venue as the AGU Fall Meeting. I wanted to thank AGU for their support of this work and, especially, President-elect of the Education Section Tanya Furman, whose enthusiasm for our efforts transformed this from an abstract notion into real action, without her drive and facilitation we would not have been able to achieve this. I also want to greatly appreciate all of the panelists we had featured, their insights to this conversation were open, honest, and immensely helpful as we digest this topic within AGU. Thank you to all those who attended the session and who supported this work.
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 The R/P FLIP, owned by the Office of Naval Research and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, deployed as part of the CASPER-West field campaign. Photo credit: Ryan Yamaguchi (NPS); person on boom: Alex Olson (NPS). The yellow dot marks the location FLIP was deployed, offshore of Los Angeles, CA. Kolmogorov's concept of an inertial subrange within the energy spectrum of high Reynolds number turbulence is fundamental to our understanding of turbulence structure and theory. However, there are significant gaps in how it has been typically applied to study geophysical turbulence. ARIIS is a new approach to identifying the most probable bandwidth of the inertial subrange in a measured turbulence record. ARIIS was applied to study the variance of the inertial subrange slope, which is presumed to be near -5/3, in the airflow new the air-sea interface. Here are the slides (**modified for distribution here**) I presented at AGU. ARIIS and the findings of this study are summarized in a pair of papers currently out for JTECH and GRL. These studies provide one of the most comprehensive evaluations of Kolmogorov's inertial subrange -5/3 power law in a geophysical regime, as well as new evidence for a distinct wind-wave-turbulence interaction mechanism that has not been described before and may provide new insights into the unique physical dynamics near the critically important air-sea interface. 
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