Researchers, communicators, educators,
We invite you to submit an abstract to our Global Environmental Change Session:
GC052: One Night Stands vs Long Term Relationships: GEC Researchers and Multimedia Communicators
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9150.html
Session Description: Researchers need long-term connections with communicators and outreach personnel with skills in media, video production and social media. Research outcomes can and must be better shared with society. Such developments can effectively spread research results while countering organized campaigns aimed at discrediting and/or instilling doubt about legitimate research. Hybrid science communication projects work! The Dark Snow Project, for example, a crowd funded science initiative focused on the Greenland ice sheet, included strong communication components from the start. That has resulted in significant mass media exposure for the goals and findings of the science team. This session seeks abstract submissions from researchers who have developed hybrid research communication programs and projects, and from agencies, groups and individuals who are seeking to create such alliances, or who will provide practical and positive examples of successful strategies.
Conveners: James M Byrne, Kent Peacock, Leanne J Little, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada and Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, GHSPi/Passport to Knowledge, Jersey City