ED31D:
Communication of Science: Practice, Research, and Reflection I

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Session ID#: 17168

Session Description:
Do you consider yourself a science communicator? Does your research group or institution participate in public engagement activities? Have you ever evaluated or published your education and outreach efforts?

Scientists communicate to non-peer audiences through numerous pathways including websites, blogs, public lectures, media interviews, and educational collaborations. A considerable amount of time and money is invested in this public engagement and these efforts are to a large extent responsible for the public perception of science. However, few opportunities and incentives exist for researchers to optimize their communication practices to ensure effective outreach. This session, run at both AGU and EGU, encourages critical reflection on science communication practices and provides an opportunity for science communicators to share best practice and experiences with evaluation and research in this field.

Primary Convener:  Heidi A Roop, University at Buffalo, Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States; Victoria University of Wellington, Science in Society, Wellington, New Zealand
Conveners:  Heidi A Roop, University at Buffalo, Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States; Victoria University of Wellington, Science in Society, Wellington, New Zealand, Samuel Michael Illingworth, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester, United Kingdom and Alejandra Borunda, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Chairs:  Alejandra Borunda, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Heidi A Roop, University at Buffalo, Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States; Victoria University of Wellington, Science in Society, Wellington, New Zealand
OSPA Liaison:  Alejandra Borunda, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, and Public Affairs

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
6329 Project evaluation [POLICY SCIENCES]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Scientists Have Feelings, Too. We Can Connect Emotions and Intellect to Reach Big Audiences, and Then Move Them. (Invited) (121441)
Laura F Tenenbaum, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Increasing public awareness and facilitating behavior change: Two guiding heuristics (126135)
Edward Maibach, George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Climate Change Communication, Fairfax, VA, United States
Grassroots Engagement and the University of Washington: Evaluating Science Communication Training Created by Graduate Students for Graduate Students (198756)
Jessica Anne Rohde1, Melissa Clarkson2, Juliana Houghton3 and William Chen2, (1)Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, Arlington, VA, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States
Environmental Progression: The Psychological Justification for Reframing Climate Change and Global Warming (135543)
Shawn Hanson Veldey, Metropolitan State University, Psychology, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Effective Social Media Practices for Communicating Climate Change Science to Community Leaders (165548)
Mica Estrada1, Christiana DeBenedict2 and Lia Bruce2, (1)University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States, (2)University of San Diego, Non-Profit Institute, San Diego, CA, United States
Importance of strategy in social media: getting the most out of your post (160740)
Wendy Bohon1,2 and Danielle F Sumy2, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration and EarthScope National Office, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States
Climate Signals: An On-Line Digital Platform for Mapping Climate Change Impacts in Real Time (194598)
Hunter Cutting, Climate Nexus, Climate Signals, New York, NY, United States
TravelingGeologist: an online platform for dissemination of earth science to the masses (142664)
Christopher J Spencer, Curtin University, Dept of Applied Geology, Perth, WA, Australia, Carl W Hoiland, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Kellen L Gunderson, Chevron Corporation Houston, Houston, TX, United States

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