I'm at the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific entering the second full day of an oceans workshop. Here's a glance at my panel from yesterday:
Scientists and Communicators Working Together: A Panel Discussion to Identify Keys to Success. (Jerry Schubel, moderator) VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr U.S. Navy Retired, former NOAA Administrator RADM Richard West, U.S. Navy Retired, former oceanographer/navigator of the Navy, past president, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE) Sheril Kirshenbaum, associate at Duke University and co-author with Chris Mooney; Unscientific America: How Scienctific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future Edward Maibach, professor, Department of Communications, director of Center for Climate Change Communications, George Mason University
For my part, I emphasized the importance of connecting with people aside from just feeding 'the facts', and then shared experiences from my work in research, policy, and journalism. We had a terrific discussion that could have gone on much longer than ...
