ED53B:
Climate Literacy: Supporting Communities Addressing Climate Change Through Climate Literacy Cross-Sector Collaboration and Communication Strategies I Posters

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Session ID#: 35396

Session Description:
With communities confronting the costly impacts of climate change, education and youth engagement programs are working to ensure that communities develop smart strategies and partnerships for building social capacity about climate change necessary for climate literacy and workforce development. Given the current political climate and the manufactured debate about the science of climate change, communication becomes even more important. Cultivating climate literacy supports informed decision-making by individuals, communities, and societies and requires strong communication skills to frame the issues and impacts and to empower collective action towards solutions. This session focuses on effective strategies including programs, media, and messaging that demonstrate engaging diverse audiences in climate literacy efforts. Additionally, it explore new approaches and effective formal and non-formal education practices in education, policy, and social action which have the potential to equip and transform a generation and the way we think and live together in a changing climate.
Primary Convener:  Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, United States
Conveners:  Rebecca K Anderson, Alliance for Climate Education, Oakland, CA, United States, Tamara S Ledley, Harvard University, Advanced Leadership Initiative, Cambridge, United States and Dana Brown Haine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC Institute for the Environment, Chapel Hill, United States
Chairs:  Jen Kretser, The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, United States and Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0830 Teacher training [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Talking About Climate: a simple tool for everyday climate conversations (264101)
Judy R Twedt, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Rachel H White, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, Michelle Tigchelaar, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Katie Doroschak, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Computer Science, Seattle, WA, United States, Riah Buchanan, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Digital and Experimental Arts, Seattle, WA, United States and Dustin Lundquist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
C2R2: Training Students To Build Coastal Resilience (264550)
Carrie Ferraro, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Math & Science Learning Center, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, Rebecca Jordan, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Departments of Human Ecology & Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Jie Gong, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Clint Andrews, Rutgers University New Brunswick, School of Planning & Public Policy, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Lisa Marie Auermuller, Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, Jeanne Herb, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Janice D McDonnell, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Youth Development, New Brunswick, United States and Sally Bond, The Program Evaluation Group, LLC, Pittsboro, NC, United States
False Balance in Climate Change Reporting Among TV Meteorologists (283954)
Kristin Timm1, Edward Maibach2, Max Boykoff3, Melissa Broeckelman-Post4, Teresa Myers5 and David Richard Perkins IV5, (1)George Mason University, Department of Communication, Fairfax, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Climate Change Communication, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States, (5)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
From Scientists to the Public: Communicating Science through Blogs on oceanbites.org and envirobites.org (272125)
Mary Grace Lemon, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Carrie A McDonough, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States and Laura A Schifman, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Let’s Talk About Water: Film as a Resource to Engage Audiences Around Earth Science Issues (273881)
Emily Clark, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc., Cambridge, MA, United States, Richard P Hooper, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States and Linda Lilienfeld, Let's Talk About Water, Washington, DC, United States
The Tyndall Petition: Bridging the Gap between Academia and the General Public (277183)
Kimberly Duong, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States and Justin Ong, Climatepedia, Charlotte, NC, United States
Can pictures speak a thousand words in understanding climate change? (271664)
Peter Walton, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Once Upon a Time, Scientific Fairy Tales Explaining Topics Related to the Discovery, Protection and Use of the Ocean (285862)
Gema Martinez-Mendez1, Hadar Elyashiv1, Dharma Andrea Reyes-Macaya1, Rebecca Jackson1, Deborah Niegas Tangunan2, Christiane Schmidt1, Celia Santos3, Iván Hernández-Almeida4, Pamela E. Rossel5, Leonardo Tamborrino1, Denise Müller Dum6, Haozhuang Wang1, Sabrina Hohmann1, Vicente Duran Toro1, Janna Stone1, Martina Hollstein1, Gerdhard L Jessen7, Lara Jacobi8, Sandy Böhnert1, Salvador Ruiz-Soto1, Andreia Rebotim9, Catarina Dinis Cavaleiro9, Valeriia Kirillova1, Yang Yang Liu3, Eunmi Park1, Amaris Contreras10, Paula Mendoza11 and Mattia Greco12, (1)MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences, Bremen, Germany, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar (AWI) and Marine Research and Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, (6)Institut fuer Umweltphysik, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (7)Universidad Austral de Chile, Los Ríos, Chile, Los Ríos, Chile, (8)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (9)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lisbon, Portugal, (10)Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany, (11)NA, NA, Germany, (12)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Weathercasters’ views on climate change: A state-of-the-community review (286725)
David Richard Perkins IV, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, United States, Kristin Timm, George Mason University, Department of Communication, Fairfax, United States, Teresa Myers, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and Edward Maibach, George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Climate Change Communication, Fairfax, VA, United States

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