ED24A:
Climate Literacy in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities in Research and Evaluation Il

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Session ID#: 35479

Session Description:
Climate change is an increasingly urgent issue that will impact students and the public throughout their lives and careers. AGU programs for the past few years have shared promising results on how to improve public understandings; however, we have yet to establish best practices or sustain large-scale collective action. This session will examine papers presenting research results, the application of findings or outlines of current practice on projects that improve climate change literacy. Providing students and citizens with the perspective and skills to address challenges to teaching about climate often requires instructional approaches from a variety of disciplines. Papers in this session will share faculty experiences, resources or lessons learned and shed light on the foundations of misconceptions and barriers to knowledge and action. This session aims to identify, synergize, and validate on-going research and education efforts while challenging one another to determine how to advance the field.
Primary Convener:  Drew Fulton Bush, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Margaret A Holzer, PhD, Rutgers University, Geography, New Brunswick, United States and Rebecca K Anderson, Alliance for Climate Education, Oakland, CA, United States
Chairs:  Drew Fulton Bush, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada and Margaret A Holzer, PhD, Rutgers University, Piscataway, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jonathan Cole, Pacifica, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0820 Curriculum and laboratory design [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Teaching Climate Change Using System Models: An Understanding Global Change Project Pilot Study (Invited) (213428)
Jessica Rebecca Bean1, Molly Stuhlsatz2, Zoë Buck Bracey2 and Charles R. Marshall1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Teaching climate science within the transdisciplinary framework of Critical Zone science (Invited) (276610)
Timothy S. White, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, Adam S Wymore, University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States, Ashlee Laura Denton Dere, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Geography/Geology, Omaha, NE, United States, James C Washburne, Sahra, Tucson, AZ, United States, Adam Hoffman, University of Dubuque, Dubuque, IA, United States and Martha H Conklin, University of California Merced, Merced, United States
School of Ice: An Advanced Professional Development Program for Geoscience Faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions (245869)
Louise T Huffman, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States
Comparison of In-Person vs. Digital Climate Education Program (292520)
Rebecca K Anderson, Alliance for Climate Education, Oakland, CA, United States, June A. Flora, Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, United States and Melissa Saphir, Melissa Saphir Research Services, Berkeley, CA, United States
Sustained Large-Scale Collective Climate Action Supported by Effective Climate Change Education Practice  (297521)
Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, United States, Haley Crim, New Knowledge Organization Ltd, New York, NY, United States, Gina Fiorile Desranleau, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Education & Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States and Samaa Eldadah, Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN), Intern, Silver Spring, MD, United States

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