WRRI 2009 Symposium
Robert S. Bowman, Professor of Hydrology

The 2009 New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute Symposium was dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Robert Bowman. NMT wrote an article about this here.

Enid "Jeri" Sullivan, a former graduate student of Rob's and later a colleage at Los Alamos National Laboratory, participated in the opening remarks by sharing the following:

Rob's Rules of Mentorship:

1. Do your research in small bites. Always have a goal for each bite.
2. Look for the non-obvious problems or issues.
3. Get a paper out of it!
4. Get out. In the field, at meetings or conferences, whatever.
5. Greet your colleagues with exuberance. Let them know how glad you are to see them.
6. Write well and often. Practice your talks. Practice some more.
7. Take your students with you when you travel. Introduce them to your colleagues and to folks they can look up to. Show them how to build a network.
8. Take your students to lunch, or dinner. Or out for a beer at the brewpub (see #4, above….)
9. Keep your dignity and grace through difficult times.
10. Be Brave.
11. Love your family and live Life well.