PA33C:
Engaged Scientists: Personal and Professional Climate Action by Climate Change Researchers Posters
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Session ID#: 49975
Session Description:
How do personal climate actions influence the professional credibility of climate researchers? How can scientists be trusted voices and also change agents?
Scientists who research dimensions of climate change may ponder how our personal actions and commitments cohere and/or conflict with professional efforts. In the current high-stakes, high-profile and highly-politicized spaces of climate science and policy, our private behaviors are more frequently scrutinized in public space. Evaluations of our actions can spill into deliberations or debates about researcher credibility, appropriate roles, and the level of responsibility scientists have for being visible leaders in climate action.
Presenters will discuss challenges and opportunities associated with this state of affairs. They will examine links between personal actions, professional actions, and public voice. They will also consider how researchers’ actions can fit into and scale up to larger initiatives moving toward a sustainable society that are currently underway from the community to national/international level.
Primary Convener: Shelly Sommer, Director, Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener: Max Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison: Shelly Sommer, Director, Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs: Max Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Shelly Sommer, Director, Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Joshua Tewksbury, Future Earth, Colorado Global Hub, Boulder / Fort Collins, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison: Shelly Sommer, Director, Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Katharine Maher1, Carissa Carter2 and Melissa Miranda2, (1)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford, CA, United States
Sarah E Crump, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Zach Montes, Orijin Media, Jackson, WY, United States and Nodin de Saillan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of English, Boulder, United States
Peter Kalmus, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Roger C Bales1, Stacy Rebich-Hespanha2, Lisa Leombruni3, Heather Hodges3 and Alexander Heeren1, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)Flourish Strategy and Analytics, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
David Joseph Oonk, CIRES/CU Boulder-Rsrch Lab 2, Boulder, CO, United States and Max Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
