PA53B:
The Up-Goer Five Challenge: A Fun and Radical Way to Distill Your Science

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Session ID#: 13343

Session Description:
A hard truth: The words we like to use to explain what we study don't mean anything to most people. If we want to reach people who don't do this work, we need to come up with new ways to talk about what we do and why it matters. (Written using the Up-Goer Five Text Editor.)

Inspired by the XKCD comic in which the author describes the Saturn V Rocket using only the thousand most common words in English (http://xkcd.com/1133/), we ask speakers to present very short (5-minute) scientific talks using only a limited vocabulary (determined via the Up-Goer Five Text Editor: http://splasho.com/upgoer5). Taking simplification to the extreme, this exercise—when done in a spirit of both fun and genuine commitment—allows scientists to identify what is at the heart of their research and share the essence of their work—often surprisingly well in spite of the inherent challenges.

Primary Convener:  Ms. Elizabeth A Landau, MS, Geological Sciences, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Ms. Elizabeth A Landau, MS, Geological Sciences, Olivia Ambrogio and Shane Michael Hanlon, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Ms. Elizabeth A Landau, MS, Geological Sciences, Olivia Ambrogio and Shane Michael Hanlon, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ms. Elizabeth A Landau, MS, Geological Sciences, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Great Year for the Big Blue Water (Invited) (121783)
Margaret Leinen, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Using very very tiny things that are a bit heavier than almost the same very very tiny things to understand much bigger things like animals (193883)
Ryan J Haupt, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
Maybe Some Big Ground Shakes One Hundred Years Ago in a Big State Near the Ocean Were Caused by People (132156)
Susan Elizabeth Hough1, Victor C Tsai2, Robert Walker3, Morgan T Page1 and Fred Aminzadeh4, (1)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Petroleum Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
A crack between two big pieces of rock is made up of different pieces. This controlled how much the rocks slipped last year. (199219)
Judith Hubbard1, Rafael V Almeida2, Anna E Foster3, Soma Nath Sapkota4, Paula Burgi3 and Paul Tapponnier1, (1)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (3)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (4)Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal
Using a Flying Thing in the Sky to See How Much Water is in the Cover of Tiny Ice Pieces in the High Places (Invited) (120867)
McKenzie Skiles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Growing Lots of Food Very Fast Can Hurt our Water for a Long Time, Longer Than You Might Think (182585)
Kimberly Van Meter, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Cool Space Bags Filled With Funny Voice Air Studying Space Rain (163113)
Dr. Alexa Jean Halford, PhD. and Elizabeth MacDonald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Speak Simply When Warning About After Shocks (139927)
Andrew Jay Michael1, Jeanne Hardebeck2, Morgan T Page3, Nicholas van der Elst3 and Anne M Wein2, (1)USGS, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, (2)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (3)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States
A Study of the Weird Make Up of Cold Water Coming Out of the Ground and Why It Might Be the Way It Is (198223)
Jennifer G Blank, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science & NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States

Putting everything together: rocks, trees, animals, and stuff to keep the lights on (182185)

Cericia Martinez1, Seth S Haines2, Darius J Semmens1, Jay Diffendorfer1, Kenneth Bagstad3 and Steve Garman4, (1)US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, United States, (4)Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO, United States
Using Picture-Taking-Thing-In-Space-8 to Look at Huge Ice Things (126450)
Allen Pope, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
The Use of Tiny Fire Rock Bits in Finding Out the Age of Old Dead Things That Have Turned To Rock (135230)
Laura C Walkup, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Menlo Park, United States
A story: north space lights (165960)
Kristina A Lynch, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
When People Push Water Deep Under Ground, It Can Cause Repeating Ground Shakes (169264)
Mike R Brudzinski, Miami University (OH), Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, United States, Robert Skoumal, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States and Brian Currie, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, United States
Hot and Pressed Rocks Inside Our World Can Change What Happens Above (176426)
Catherine A McCammon, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Is Bigger Better? Small Water Bodies Help Clean up Our Water Much Better than Large Ones (185590)
Frederick Y Cheng, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States and Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
You and I can see and help explain beautiful lights in the funny space air (197736)
Elizabeth MacDonald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Many people agreeing that something is true is not the same thing as people who spend their life studying something (who speak the same way and agree about what makes something true) agreeing that something is true! (198325)
Peter Jacobs, George Mason University, Environmental Science and Policy, Fairfax, VA, United States

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