Mentoring Awardee: Mentoring in the Helium Mines

Anyone who has benefited as much as I have from outstanding mentors will feel

both an obligation and a delight in paying it forward. Mentoring seems to have a lot

of empirical accumulated knowledge but not so much formal structure, although

that is changing. I will describe what helped me in my own career, and what

emerged over the years as I worked with (increasingly!) younger colleagues. I

would be remiss in not mentioning some epic failures, because those are also

learning experiences.