PA23E:
Communication of Science: Practice, Research, and Reflection Posters


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Session ID#: 44171

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, outreach or engagement efforts?

Scientists communicate to non-peer audiences through numerous pathways including websites, blogs, public lectures, media interviews, and educational and research collaborations. A considerable amount of time and money is invested in these engagement activities 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 engagement. 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 of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, United States
Conveners:  Samuel Michael Illingworth, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom, Kristin Timm, George Mason University, Department of Communication, Fairfax, United States and Yi-Ling Hwong, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Heidi A Roop, University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, United States
Chairs:  Heidi A Roop, University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, United States, Samuel Michael Illingworth, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester, United Kingdom, Kristin Timm, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Yi-Ling Hwong, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
OSPA Liaison:  Heidi A Roop, University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, Hydrology, Education, and Global Environmental Change

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Danielle Charlton, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Leonardo Tamborrino1, Sandy Böhnert1, Rebecca Borges2, Federica Capparelli3, Catarina Dinis Cavaleiro4, Amaris Contreras2, Remi Dallmayr5, Vicente Duran Toro1, Hadar Elyashiv1, Mattia Greco4, Iván Hernández-Almeida6, Sabrina Hohmann1, Martina Hollstein1, Chelsea Korpanty7, Rebecca Jackson1, Lara Jacobi8, Valeriia Kirillova1, Gema Martinez-Mendez9, Paula Mendoza10, Denise Müller Dum11, Andrea Paz Orfanoz-Cheuquelaf12, Lina Madaj4, Pamela E. Rossel13, Andreia Rebotim14, Dharma Andrea Reyes-Macaya1, Sonja Boeske15, Salvador Ruiz-Soto1, Mariem Saavedra16, Susana Kraus17, Celia Santos18, Christiane Schmidt1, Rodrigo da Costa Portilho-Ramos4, Andrew Tobben19, Janna Stone1, Deborah Niegas Tangunan20, Nicole Tondreau Lira21, Clayton Soares16, Nelson Selekere16, Haozhuang Wang1 and Scarlett Gac Caceres16, (1)MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany, (3)Institute for Theoretical Physics,, Department of Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (4)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (5)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (6)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (7)University of Bremen, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany, (8)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (9)MARUM, Bremen, Germany, (10)NA, NA, Germany, (11)Institut fuer Umweltphysik, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (12)Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (13)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, (14)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lisbon, Portugal, (15)CSR New Material Technologies GMBH, Bremen, Germany, (16)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (17)INACAP, Concepcion, Chile, (18)IPMA, Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lison, Portugal, (19)NA, Bremen, Germany, (20)University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences, Bremen, Germany, (21)Center for Climate and Resilience Research, Universida de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Magdalena Brus1, Katri Ahlgren1, Mari Keski-Nisula1 and Werner Leo Kutsch2, (1)ICOS ERIC, Head Office, Helsinki, Finland, (2)Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS ERIC), Helsinki, Finland
Christiane Elisabeth Hübner, Heikki Lihavainen and Inger Jennings, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen, Norway
Silvio Seno, University of Pavia, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pavia, Italy and Rodolfo Coccioni, Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate, Urbino, Italy
Thibault de Garidel-Thoron1, Corinne Sonzogni2, Francois Demory1 and Tiphaine Zitter1, (1)Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix en Provence, France, (2)Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix-En-Provence, France
Evan B Goldstein, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Geraint H Jones, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom
Staci Tiedeken, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Andrea P Jones, Goddard Flight Research Center, Greenbelt, United States, Molly L Wasser, ADNET Systems Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States and Nicole Whelley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

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