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What's Your Chronotype? OR&R Diversity and Inclusion Committee Explores How We Can Get Our Best Sleep

JULY 14, 2017--On June 29, the OR&R Diversity and Inclusion Committee hosted an event to help attendees learn about their unique sleep patterns and needs.

The discussion was based on Dr. Michael Breus' chronotype quiz. The quiz shares that "a chronotype is your own personal biological clock that controls your body's rhythms—it's the reason you are grumpier in the morning or focus better later in the day. This genetic biological clock affects much more than your waking and sleeping patterns, it affects when you should eat; when the best time for coffee is; and when you should socialize, work, and exercise, among other things." Participants took the chronotype quiz to learn their own chronotype results then watched a short video describing each chronotype group. A lively discussion followed, with topics such as how participants related to their assigned chronotype, how they managed to be productive during certain hours of the day, and even how they helped their significant others with dramatically different sleep patterns. This event marks the OR&R Diversity & Inclusion Committee's first exploration of the intersection of diversity and health. In the coming months, the committee will begin the process of fostering a Health and Wellness Committee to address more wellness-related topics. The decision to form a new committee was based on responses from OR&R staff and team members in the Diversity & Inclusion Committee's biannual online survey. Slides from the event are available on the June 2017 Diversity Event page of the OR&R Intranet (password protected). The OR&R Diversity and Inclusion Event Series is on a hiatus for the month of July, but will return in August. For further information, contact Kristin.Fonte@noaa.gov. For questions or suggestions for future events, contact the OR&R Diversity and Inclusion Committee at orr.diversity@noaa.gov.

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