ED23B:
The Up-Goer Five Challenge: Tell Us About the Hard Things You Do in Ten Hundred Words II


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Session ID#: 59288

Session Description:
Scientists: Have you ever been accused of being “complicated” or “hard to understand” 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:

  1. Find out what is at the heart of your work.
  2. Can now tell ANYONE what you study, because you can make things as simple as they can be.
  3. 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:  Olivia Ambrogio, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Shane Michael Hanlon, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ms. Elizabeth A Landau, MS, Geological Sciences, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

We look in the big deep water using big money under-water computers and see (MORE) weird ass things with our study bits (457271)
Martin Heesemann, University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, Monika S. Pelz, Ocean Networks Canada, Learning and Engagement, Victoria, BC, Canada and Maia Hoeberechts, Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Where Did the Very Tiny Rocks on the Bottom of the Big, Wide Waters Come From in the Past? (370073)
Chloe H Anderson, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States
Understanding why the sun is angry and makes big noises with lots of light by listening to its insides, and taking nice pictures of its force field you can't see, that points the way up. (462435)
Claire L Raftery, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States
How fast do small things move into and out of our world? (455395)
Louise H Kellogg, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
World Watching Thing: Find the Grow Up Places Where Babies of Tiny Flying Animals That Bite, Using the Phone That You Take With You All the Time (430531)
Russanne Low, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, United States and Lisa S Gardiner, UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Checking Computer Studies of Fast Slip on Fault Rocks Under Ground (376164)
Ruth Harris, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States
Air Light: Understanding its Make-up (416961)
Yolian Amaro-Rivera, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Jamil Henderson, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Electrical Engineering, University Park, United States, Tai-Yin Huang, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, United States and Julio V Urbina, The Pennsylvania State Univers, University Park, United States
How to begin to make the most inner hard ball of a world? (419185)
Steven A. Hauck II, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, Ludovic Huguet, Université Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre, Grenoble, France and James Van Orman, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
How the Places We Live Are Changing, Why it Matters, and How People are Working Together to Have Fewer Problems: A New Study (Four Years After the Last One) (414411)
Kristin Lewis, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington D.C., DC, United States
Why Is This Still Green? Where and Why Have Changes from People with Power Not Made the Water Great Again (424712)
Danyka K Byrnes, University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Kimberly Van Meter, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
What Happens To Moving Soft Rock When The Ground Goes Down? (349079)
Arianna Soldati, University of Missouri Columbia, Dept. Geological Sciences, Columbia, MO, United States
How Getting Old and Cold Changes The Rock Lives of Space Bodies (468037)
Prof. Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Do Tiny Rocks from Space Help Make the Things that Rain on the Red World Next Door? (452767)
Victoria Hartwick, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States
How do people find rocks to answer questions and how can we make finding rocks easier (439357)
Sarah Ramdeen, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Westminster, CO, United States
Living things die, but if they get covered with rocks, sometimes much later we can find them and use them for learning new stuff and that’s pretty great (449155)
Ryan J Haupt, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States

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