ED51F:
The Role of Scientists as Communicators: From the Classroom to the Pub I

Session ID#: 1462

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
302 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Heidi A Roop, University of Minnesota, St Paul, United States, Rhian Anya Salmon, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and Sarah Bartholow, Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, Fairbanks, United States
Primary Convener:  Heidi A Roop, University of Minnesota, St Paul, United States; Victoria University of Wellington, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
Co-conveners:  Sarah Bartholow, Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, Fairbanks, United States, Rhian Anya Salmon, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and Samuel Michael Illingworth, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Sarah Bartholow, Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, Fairbanks, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ED51F-01
Story-Telling for Science: One Scientist’s Story (Invited) (4093)
Richard B Alley, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
ED51F-02
Succeeding in Science Communication amid Contentious Public Policy Debates (10434)
Aaron Huertas, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Communications, Washington, DC, United States
ED51F-03
Building a Science Communication Culture: One Agency’s Approach (13379)
Sarah DeWitt, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Laura F Tenenbaum, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Burbank, CA, United States and Laura Betz, Telophase Corporation, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
ED51F-04
The public communication of science in public health graduate programs in Brazil: From the coordinators’ perspective (22274)
Carlos Antonio Teixeira, University of Sao Paulo, Information and Culture - School of Communication and Arts, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Paulo Rogério Gallo, Universidade de São Paulo, School of Public Health, São Paulo, Brazil
ED51F-05
Lessons Learned from the IceCube Collaboration Education and Outreach Efforts: The Importance of Partners (29548)
Jim Madsen1, Silvia Bravo Gallart2, Jean Demerit3 and Megan Madsen3, (1)University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
ED51F-06
The Science of Effectively Communicating about Drought in California (31391)
Timothy M Gann1, Martha H Conklin2, James P Gonzales1 and Teenie Matlock3, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States, (3)University of California Merced, Cognitive Science Program, Merced, CA, United States
ED51F-07
Snow, Ice, & Satellites: An Early Career Researcher’s Experience with Twitter (25966)
Allen Pope, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Scambos Ted, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
ED51F-08
Lessons Learned on Stage: How Improv Can Improve Science Communication (31340)
Gifford J Wong1, Christian Kohn2, Mark A McPeek2 and Nancy Serrell2, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
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