Get your voice heard. Public testimony during local government meetings has an impact on #policy decisions. You can make a difference by showing up and sharing what’s important to you as a member of the community.

Here are some things to keep in mind as you prepare to testify at the next city council meeting.

#ClimateCrisis #ScienceAdvocacy #ScienceCommunications

https://nwnw.org/tips-tricks-for-city-council-testimony/

Read some of our work studying the transport and deposition of #microplastics: https://criticalzone.org/dust2/publications

This work has taken on unexpected importance as we study how particulates move through the #CriticalZone.

If you're a journalist and writing about #microplastics Cluster member Janice Brahney is a great source of information and insight for you.

#EnvironmentalScience #ScienceCommunications

"Here, we present records of the...composition of sediments from...over the past ∼25 thousand years."

Fascinating paper from June 2023 by Wenfang Zhang, et. al.

This is #SourceToSink research in the #CriticalZone in #China and aligns with some of the the early findings from our Cluster projects.

#EnvironmentalScience #ScienceCommunications

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103633

Policy makers listen to their constiuents. Expand your #science #advocacy toolkit with these resources from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

#SciComm #ScienceCommunications

https://www.aaas.org/resources/communication-toolkit

Outtake from #generativeAI #illustration work session.

#midjourney #ScienceCommunications

Prompt: plant roots, burrowing fauna, bioturbation, and dissolved organic carbon

#Science #education resources at no charge to you.

SERC is the Science Education Resource Center office at Carleton College. Here's just one example of what is available on their site.

#CriticalZone #SciEd #ScienceCommunications

https://serc.carleton.edu/eslabs/climate/index.html

ICYMI: The abstract submission period for the 42nd Annual Technical Conference of the National Association of Black Geoscientists is open through August 1st. #NABG42

Visit http://nabg-us.org/conferenceabstracts.html for more info.

#geology #geoscience #geosciences #geophysics #gischat #STEM
#ScienceCommunications
#BlackFediverse #BlackMastodon
@BlackMastodon

If you are interested in the intersection of #ScienceCommunications and #CitizenScience and #ScienceJournalism, you might want to watch the #Newsera final conference https://newsera2020.eu/events/newsera-final-conference/ live-streaming over YouTube this Wednesday https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLV0SUPm5PWUkNGfd5bYocQ

Thanks to @timdonaghy who shared this #Yale Climate Connections post which includes the #DataVisualization attached.

“Despite this fantastic first half of the water year, it would be premature to declare that the state’s drought is over. For one thing, longtime Western weather watchers are aware that the second half of a water year is every bit as important as the first.#

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/01/taking-stock-of-californias-three-week-deluge/

#CriticalZone #Hydrology #SciComm #ScienceCommunications

Jamie Shanley is a #BigData Cluster collaborator who is part of the United States Geological Survey in #Vermont.

Shanley has been attending #AmericanGeophysicalUnion Fall Meetings throughout his career, "I won't say how many," he adds.

We asked him if he's noticed a change in tone over the years of how the community talks about #ClimateChange.

The change, he told us, is not in the science community, but in the people who we work to inform.

#AGU22 #AGU2022 #ScienceCommunications

Check out the radio interview by our Research Software Engineer (RSE) @DonMostrenco!

He's a champion for many things, but also noteably #sciencecommunications. He shares his experience as an RSE but also talks about our recent International Funders Workshop where funding organizations around the world gathered in Amsterdam to discuss funding sustainable #researchsoftware.

https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/punto-de-enlace/punto-enlace-pablo-rodriguez-experto-software-cientifico-holanda-13-12-22/6755789/

Comms pros who nerd out over science (particularly sharks)... cool opportunity for part-time work! Fully remote, 1-2 days a week, primarily responsible for social media. Message me to learn more. #ScienceCommunications

This is my first time on #mastodon. Still feeling my way around the system. A quick #introduction. I live on Bidwell country in Mallacoota, Victoria
-passionate about #environmental and #social issues.
- founder of a #socialenterprise with community ownership and leadership at the heart of it. Keen follower of #politics #auspol. Work in #documentary, #video and #sciencecommunications. Love #singing. Hoping this proves a kinder and more constructive platform.

Outreach is a BIG part of what LJI is all about! Here are some great tips for #SciComm from the #NIH http://bit.ly/3EC51cA

#Science #ScienceCommunications #Health #Medicine #immunology #ImmuneSystem #InfectiousDisease #VaccineResearch #ScienceWriting #STEM #STEMCareers