We support scientists in improving their communication and outreach.
We offer workshops in communication skills at professional meetings and labs, and assistance in preparing accessible materials for non-scientists.
Our Director Susan Hassol and Science Director Richard Somerville led several workshops on climate science communication at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in December 2011. One of these workshops was for AGU, this being their second year leading workshops for the Geophysical Union (see photo above taken at the 2010 meeting). The other workshops were for the Climate Science Rapid Response Team. Susan and Richard also gave several invited talks at AGU (you can watch one of Susan’s talks here and Richard’s here.)
In January 2012, Susan spoke via videoconference to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration workshop in Maryland focusing on science communication. The workshop was conducted by NOAA and the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.
In November 2011, Susan gave an invited seminar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research on “Improving Scientists’ Communication of Climate Change” sponsored by Women Organizing Research and Leading Science.
Susan and Richard led climate communication workshops at NASA Langley in November 2011, and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in March 2011. Susan and Richard both acted as mentors for early career PhD scientists during the week-long DISCCRS VI Seminar (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research) in October 2011.
By Julie Stuart of Making Ideas Visual (click for larger version)
Susan gave a talk at the 2009 AGU meeting called “Communicating With Congress (and Everyone Else)”. This visual mural was created during her talk by Julie Stuart of Making Ideas Visible. The mural was posted in the lobby of the Moscone Center throughout the AGU conference.
Susan was the Senior Science Writer on the 2009 report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, commissioned by the United States Government during the George W. Bush administration.
If you are a scientist or an organization that would like assistance, please contact us.
