ED13F:
The Up-Goer Five Challenge: Explaining Your Science One Ten-Hundredth at a Time l

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Session ID#: 23758

Session Description:
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 using the Up-Goer Five Text Editor: http://splasho.com/upgoer5).

Why?

When you cut down the number of words you use to explain what you do, you:

  1. Find out what is at the heart of your work.
  2. Can now tell ANYONE what you study, because you know how to make things as simple as they can be.
  3. Show that it matters to explain what you do so others can understand, even if it's hard. (And that's just as important as explaining what you study.)
  4. Have fun, and make the people you study with laugh. A lot.

(Second section written using the Up-Goer Five Text Editor.)

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

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

When Big Ice Turns Into Water It Matters For Houses, Stores And Schools All Over (Invited) (279529)
Robin Elizabeth Bell, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Tiny tiny things with an amazing power (277228)
Catherine A McCammon, University of Bayreuth, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany, Stefan Peiffer, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research, Bayreuth, Germany and Moli Wan, University of Bayreuth, Hydrology, Bayreuth, Germany
Taking a lot of Pictures of Real Things and Making them into a Single Picture you can Move on a Computer (298131)
Charles Linneman, National Park Service Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States and Chad Hults, National Park Service, Albuquerque, United States
How changes in top water bother big turning packs of up-going wet air (Invited) (266635)
Kimberly Wood, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, United States
How do trees and the small life forms under the ground talk to each other and other outside things: Can they make our world hot (or cool) again? (269540)
Debjani Sihi, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States
Where inside the world is the stuff that makes the wood things we write with and the small pretty rocks that women wear on their fingers? And where does that stuff go over time? (273790)
Louise H Kellogg, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
What Happens Where the Water and the Rock Touch in Small Space Bodies (301024)
Prof. Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, Paul Vyvyan Regensburger, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States, Christian Klimczak, Carnegie Inst Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, United States, Delwayne R Bohnenstiehl, North Carolina State University, Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, United States, Andrew J Dombard, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States and Steven A. Hauck II, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
How big are different parts of pictures of the rock under us? (233051)
Anant Hariharan, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Pritwiraj Moulik, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States and Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States
Little ice bodies, huge ice lands, and the up-going of the big water body (257044)
Lizz Ultee, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United States and Jeremy N Bassis, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
Shake Warning: Helping People Stay Safe With Lots of Small Boxes in the Ground to Warn Them About Strong Shaking (295226)
Mouse Reusch, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, Seattle, WA, United States
How did the ball of rock we live on get so nice? (277973)
Katherine Armstrong, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Food and Stuff (253135)
Jacob Hagedorn, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States
What do computer worlds tell us about changes to rain and falling ice-water in the state where this meeting is usually held? (300543)
Baird Langenbrunner, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
The type of dog that came before dogs eats different types of food during different times of the year, and we can tell by looking at their teeth very very close up. (297254)
Ryan J Haupt, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States

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