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Member Since 2007
Rocio P. Caballero-Gill
Assistant Research Professor & Director, George Mason University Fairfax
Professional Experience
George Mason University Fairfax
Assistant Research Professor & Director
2021 - Present
GeoLatinas - Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Chairwoman for the Board of Directors
2019 - 2023
George Mason University Fairfax
Visiting Scientist - Researcher - Affiliate Faculty - Postdoctoral Research Associate
2018 - 2020
Brown University
Postdoctoral Research Associate
2015 - 2018
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Education
Brown University
Doctorate
2015
George Mason University Fairfax
Bachelors
Northern Virginia Community College Reston
Associate
Brown University
Masters
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Honors & Awards
Award for Advancing Inclusive Excellence in STEM
Received December 2023
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Dr. Rocío Caballero-Gill is a pioneering advocate for Latina, disabled and minoritized scientists. Although she is still early in her career, she has given more than 15 years of service that have had lasting impacts on the well-being of diverse scientists globally. Dr. Caballero-Gill is a co-founder of the GeoLatinas and served as its first president. GeoLatinas was founded in 2018 as an inclusive, international, member-driven global organization that centers on Latinas and promotes the mentoring and retention of all minoritized geoscientists. She is a trailblazer in fostering leadership via professional and personal development initiatives, increasing the visibility of Latinas in geoscience, and promoting retention of geoscientists across ranks. She has an uncanny ability to build community, centering and empowering Latinas while uplifting and making room for other minoritized individuals. The sense of community seen in GeoLatinas is one of her lasting impacts on the group, allowing the organization to have reach well beyond the Earth and planetary science community. She is attentive to every detail that creates an inclusive community — from making sure her community members don't have to eat alone at conferences to ensuring that all voices are heard in organizational decisions and everything in between. Her leadership style has been likened to a career coach cheering for you, always seeing the potential in GeoLatinas' members. Dr. Caballero-Gill's activities extend well beyond the GeoLatinas. She is the principal investigator of the CycloCohort Program, an early-career springboard for inclusion, diversity, equity and justice focused leadership in geoscience and astronomy. She designed a transformative model for equitable recruitment and selection of diverse graduate students and postdoctoral researchers for the CycloAstro Project, making room for diverse people who might have been overlooked by the traditional recruitment processes. In addition, she is a team lead of professional development for Climatematch Academy, an international project to democratize climate science through the empowerment of people from all backgrounds by strategically increasing access to computational science, education and networking. Beyond these formal initiatives, she uses social media to raise awareness about living and doing science with an invisible chronic disorder, sharing her personal story and welcoming others to imagine themselves doing science and pursuing their dream career. Through all her efforts, Dr. Caballero-Gill is transforming the Earth and planetary sciences to be a place where people from gender and sexual minoritized groups and different racial, ethnic, cultural and national backgrounds and first-generation, immigrant and disabled scientists can thrive. — Nicole M. Gasparini Tulane UniversityNew Orleans, Louisiana
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AGU Presidential Citation for Science and Society
Received December 2020
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The teams who created the “Call for a Robust Anti-Racism Plan for the Geosciences,” led by Dr. Hendratta Ali and “No Time for Silence,” led by Dr. Vernon Morris. These two teams created an important dialogue and a framework for being anti-racist in geosciences that is being used by organizations around the world to make our community more diverse and inclusive. Their work served as the foundation to AGU’s eight deliberate steps that we committed to taking to support our Black and Brown family, friends, colleagues and students.
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Publications
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Plio-Pleistocene Hemispheric (A)Symmetries in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere Midlatitudes
The transition from the warm, stable climate of the Pliocene to the progressively colder glaciations of the Pleistocene, as well as the climate sys...
March 17, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Alkenone Sea Surface Temperature Records Reveal the MIS M2 Glaciation was a Globally Synchronous Event
ADVANCES IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE CHANGE DURING THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE 41-KYR WORLD II POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 13 december 2023
Brianna Hoegler, Timothy Herbert, Nuri van Dommele...
The relative warmth of the Pliocene Epoch (5.332.58 Ma) preceded a marked transition toward colder, more glaciated, and more variable conditions durin...
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One Size Does Not Fit All: A Customizable Professional Development Model to Increase Career Retention of Early-Career Geoscientists
AGU LANDING ACADEMY: AN EMERGING MODEL FOR DEI LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN THE (GEO)SCIENCES I ORAL
agu learning sessions | 12 december 2023
Rocío Paola P. Caballero-Gill
The geosciences is one of the STEM fields with the lowest retention of graduates (marginalized and non-marginalized) as they transition into the workf...
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Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific
ADVANCING PALEOCLIMATOLOGY BY COMBINING DATA, MODELS, AND THEORY IV ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 16 december 2022
Heather L. Ford, Natalie Burls, Peter Jacobs, Fris...
Geologic intervals of sustained warmth such as the mid-Pliocene Warm Period (~3 million years ago) can inform our understanding of future climate chan...
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Volunteer Experience
2021 - 2021
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Ambassador Award Committee
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