ED21B:
The Up-Goer Five Challenge: Tell Us About the Hard Things You Do in Ten Hundred Words I
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Session ID#: 59282
Session Description:
Scientists: Have you ever been accused of being âcomplicatedâ or âhard to understandâ when describing your research? Or are you mavens of accessibility, entrancing everyone from taxi drivers to tax accountants? We invite you to take this challenge.
Inspired by the XKCD comic that describes the Saturn V Rocket using only the thousand most common words in English (http://xkcd.com/1133/), we ask speakers to present short (5-minute) scientific talks using the same limited vocabulary (determined via the Up-Goer Five Text Editor: http://splasho.com/upgoer5).
Why? When you cut the number of words you use to explain what you do, you:
- Find out what is at the heart of your work.
- Can now tell ANYONE what you study, because you can make things as simple as they can be.
- Show that it matters to explain what you do so others can understand, even if it's hard.
(Written using the Up-Goer Five Text Editor.)
Primary Convener: Olivia Ambrogio, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners: Ms. Elizabeth A Landau, MS, Geological Sciences, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Shane Michael Hanlon, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison: Olivia Ambrogio, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs: Ms. Elizabeth A Landau, MS, Geological Sciences, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Shane Michael Hanlon, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison: Olivia Ambrogio, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Susan Elizabeth Hough, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States and Robert W Graves, US Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA, United States
Joanmarie Del Vecchio, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
Sophie A. Murray, Trinity College Dublin, School of Physics, Dublin, Ireland
Frederick Y Cheng, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States and Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Kristine M Sigsbee, University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
Catherine A McCammon, University of Bayreuth, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany, Joshua M Garber, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Satish Maurya, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jean-Alexis Hernandez, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, Megan S Duncan, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Li Zeng, Harvard Coll Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, Hongluo Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, Ulrich Faul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Jean-Paul Montagner, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, Louis Noel Moresi, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, Roberta L Rudnick, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science and Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Lars P Stixrude, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Katerina R Gonzales, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Daniel L Swain, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, United States, Kyle Nardi, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Elizabeth A Barnes, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Noah S Diffenbaugh, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States
Kerry Ryan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Srisharan Shreedharan, Utah State University, Department of Geosciences, Logan, UT, United States
Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Colleen M. Iversen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States
Gerd Steinle-Neumann, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Juliane Dannberg, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States and Rene Gassmoeller, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Skylar Bayer, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
