ED23F:
Climate Literacy: Informal Education and Citizen Science, New Successes, and Strategies Beyond the Classroom I

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Session ID#: 17150

Session Description:
Surveys indicate Americans who have made a personal connection to climate impact are most likely to care about climate and seek climate literacy. Citizen science and place-based formal and informal education can provide learners with meaningful and relevant connections to climate and the environment. The increased science understanding afforded by direct, personal involvement with data collection and research, and learning about causes, consequences and opportunities for individual action in climate mitigation and adaptation can catalyze learning and action. Through such experiences, people learn with minds, hands and heart – a formula steeped in learning theory and practice. We invite presentations in citizen science and other place-based formal and informal climate education that highlight proven methodologies for raising climate science, adaptation and mitigation literacy. Activities under development or recently launched, collaborative efforts between existing projects and programs aimed at elevating climate literacy, and those leveraging the GLOBE program are particularly encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Rebecca K Anderson, Alliance for Climate Education, Oakland, CA, United States
Conveners:  Holli Riebeek Kohl, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jen Kretser, The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, United States and Tony Murphy, The GLOBE Program/UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Jen Kretser1, Holli Riebeek Kohl2,3, Rebecca K Anderson4 and Anita Davis3, (1)The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, United States(2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States(3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(4)Alliance for Climate Education, Oakland, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Tony Murphy, The GLOBE Program/UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Stories from dynamic Earth: developing your sense of place through Landsat-based citizen science (Invited) (195802)
Peder Nelson1, Robert E Kennedy1, Anne W. Nolin2, Dr. Joseph Hughes, PhD3, Raechel Anne Bianchetti4, Kari O'Connell5 and Patricia Morrell6, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, OR, United States, (3)Orion Space Solutions, Louisville, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Oregon State University, STEM Research Center, Corvallis, United States, (6)University of Portland, Portland, OR, United States
GLOBE and Place-based learning (198742)
Travis Jay Andersen, GLOBE Program, Boulder, CO, United States, Tony Murphy, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, The GLOBE Program, Boulder, CO, United States, Julie S Malmberg, The GLOBE Program/UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Kristin Wegner, GLOBE Program, The GLOBE Implementation Office, Boulder, CO, United States
Empowering Youth to Think and Act Critically About Complex Climate Issues (150521)
Lynne Harden1, Molly Michelson1, Megan Schufreider1, Elizabeth Babcock1, Ruth Klotz-Chamberlin1, Elizabeth Bagley1, Emily S Cassidy2, Katie Levedahl1, Nick Perez1, Cheryl Vanderbilt1, Kira Hammond1, Donavon Brutus1 and Tracy Arrowsmith1, (1)California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Connected Worlds: Connecting the public with complex environmental systems (156783)
Stephen Miles Uzzo, New York Hall of Science, Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY, United States, Robert S Chen, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, United States
Exposing Underrepresented Groups to Climate Change and Atmospheric Science Through Service Learning and Community-Based Participatory Research (182879)
David Padgett, Tennessee State University, Department of Earth System Science, Nashville, TN, United States
Communicating Ocean Acidification and Climate Change to Public Audiences Using Scientific Data, Interactive Exploration Tools, and Visual Narratives (192992)
Mary K Miller, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, United States, Andrew Rossiter, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Waikiki Aquarium, Honolulu, HI, United States and William Spitzer, New England Aquarium, Boston, MA, United States

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