Posts treating: "Science communication"
Wednesday, 07 February 2024
By Elliot Witscher, 2023 Science Communication Intern Over the past few decades, wildfires in the western United States have become more frequent and have burnt a larger area more severely than in the past. The resulting impact on humans and ecosystems is impossible to ignore. At GSA Connects, the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting,
By Caren Shin, 2023 Science Communication Intern Brittney Stoneburg is a vertebrate paleontologist and museum professional. She specializes in mammals from the Miocene (23 to 5 million years ago) and Pleistocene periods (2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years ago). She is the collections and communications manager at the Western Science Center in Southern California,
Elizabeth Long, GSA Associate Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Anyone who is aware of and concerned by issues around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the geosciences is probably familiar with the fact that our field is one of the least diverse disciplines in the United States. The title of a 2018 paper by
Do you have data-related questions? Are you looking to make your data and/or software open and FAIR? Are you interested in tools and resources for working with your data or for finding data to reuse? The Virtual Data Help Desk at #GSA2021 is here for you! The Virtual Data Help Desk, which is a program
By Connor Dacey, GSA Science Policy Fellow Over the past couple of months, there has been an uptick in interest for federally-supported science and research in both the executive and legislative branches. President Biden’s recently-released infrastructure proposal, known as the American Jobs Plan, includes $40 billion for infrastructure improvements at the Department of Energy’s (DOE)
By Rebecca Dzombak, GSA Science Communication Fellow Geoscience stands out among STEM fields as having great potential to compel and engage people and to provide solutions to some of our planet’s most pressing problems. Climate change, contaminated soils, landslide risks, polluted air, mining byproducts: these fields may seem disparate, but at the base of almost
A few months ago I put up a post to launch a dinosaur-centric podcast called Terrible Lizards. I and my co-presenter, Iszi lawrence, really didn’t know how popular it might be or how much momentum it would get. As such we recorded one series and then crossed our fingers. Happily, it has been well-received and
A student wrote to me to ask where I got the motivation to prep my anatomy lectures. Here’s what I sent back. I’ll be honest, for me it is partly fear, partly arrogance, and partly laziness: Fear of going up in front of 270 smart folks with the internet at their fingertips and not bringing
First, a short personal backstory. Vicki’s and my extended families both live mostly in Oklahoma and Kansas, so they only get to see our son, London, at the holidays or at infrequent mid-year visits. Starting when London was five, every year I’ve made a photo book of his adventures through the year to give as
I’ve delayed writing about my involvement in last summer’s Kilauea eruption for a number of reasons. One is because I wanted to wait until the USGS has had a chance to publish the preliminaries of the eruption; others are more personal, involving my experience working with the communities affected and the people responding to the eruption. But now that the one-year anniversary of the start of the eruption has come …
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I’ve now been blogging for over 10 years and I’ve also written plenty of other news articles, appeared on TV, radio and in podcasts, and done whole rafts of talks and events as well as writing a book (here’s a huge list of links to things I have done) and consulted for plenty more too.
It's been 27 days since I, my colleagues and 800,000 or so others were informed that our leaders were okay with using us as political pawns. 27 days since 380,000 of us were told we weren't allowed work at all. 27 days since 420,000 of us were told that we had to work without pay.
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Becuase writing the Musings annd being on Twitter (and perviously doing the FLugsaurier blog and pages, and Ask A Biologist, and The Lost Worlds for the Guardian) isn’t enough, I finally decided to start up a proper page on Facebook. So if you want to follow me there and post soem dinosaur stuff and get
As yesterday was my blogiversary, I was planning to write a reflective post about what I’ve accomplished (or not) in the past year. However, with the recent events in Indonesia, I decided to hold off on the introspective and use my platform to help direct people to factual information about Krakatau and the landslide and eruptions it’s experienced in the past several days. A note to the news media: As …
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This year, sadly, I’m not attending AGU’s Fall Meeting. It’s partly personal choice – I have several big projects scheduled for December and January – and partly that I don’t want to make two cross-country flights to go to a meeting and head home for the holidays (the timing doesn’t line up well). It’s also partly because in the USGS (and in the government in general), our choice of conferences to …
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This blog is part of a series addressing issues further explored in GSA’s Pardee Session Women Rising: Removing Barriers and Achieving Parity in the Geosciences. Attend the Women Rising session,
There's so much to see in Naples - so much gelato to eat - but one thing I learned was that if you want to sample the local geology, you could do worse than visit a church.
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The best science reporting in the world is diminished when you publish it under a histrionic headline.
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If you are within striking distance of Claremont, come watch me cross the streams of my amateur and professional careers as I talk about the intersection of astronomy and paleontology. And if you can’t make it in person, check out the livestream on the Raymond M. Alf Museum page on Facebook. Show starts Saturday, April
It's not very often that someone my age gets to celebrate a 10-year anniversary. But this year is one of those times, because it's been 10 years since I graduated from college, 10 years since I started my first job, and 10 years since I started this