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Research Efficiency and Communications
- Inform colleagues of conservation techniques
- Advocate to department and UCSB administration
- Advocate for adequate maintenance staff to repair and service items in house
- Pick up the phone instead of emailing
- Clarify management issues in your lab and get training
- Communicate with operations staff
- Start a Conservation committee for your department or building
- Join a departmental network of laboratory contacts
- Find out if you think common use equipment may be turned off
- Take time to explain conservation techniques to colleagues from other countries or cultures
- Make simple requests by email to your department
- Support a departmental list server that offers good communication across departments
- Develop cordial relationships with custodians, ventilation and electrical maintenance staff
- Take lots of pictures
- Join the Laboratory Research And Technical Staff (LabRATS) network and participate in information or equipment exchange through the listserve
- Keep an open ear for colleagues' personal needs. "Take care of your people"
