Science Communications

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Fen Levy

2024 Fellow
Fen is an avian ecologist unraveling how forested landscapes can jointly support ecosystems and human need. Their work centers around the North Woods, a unique mosaic of 10 million acres of largely private commercial forestland in present...
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Kathryn Rodgers

2024 Fellow
Kathryn Rodgers is a PhD candidate at Boston University School of Public Health, where she is researching environmental causes of Mesoamerican nephropathy. She is also a trainee in the Boston University Graduate Program in Urban...
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Chelsea Kirk

2024 Fellow
Chelsea Kirk is the Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Building Equity and Transit team at Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, a nonprofit dedicated to building community leadership and power for economic justice. Chelsea's work...
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Wilkinson hyena research featured in National Geographic cover story

Christine Wilkinson is part of a network of researchers working to yield “greater understanding, respect and protection” for this misunderstood African predator.
March 18, 2024
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Creating Connections for Communicating Science

Switzer Fellows learned principles of responsive listening, empathic communication, and making scientific messages memorable, in this online workshop facilitated by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.
March 14, 2024
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Building a Knowledge Action Network in the Indigenous communities of the South Pacific

Linwood Pendleton writes about his recent visit to South Pacific Indigenous members of the Ocean Knowledge Action Network in order to build trust and better understand the knowledge held by these communities, their needs and opportunities for more and better peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.
January 18, 2024
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Santiago and Rodriguez-Cruz speak on climate change opinion and engagement in Puerto Rico

Sara Santiago moderated this conversation with Marija Verner, Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz, and Ada Monzón about a recent global survey conducted by Meta and YPCCC, challenges and opportunities in the agricultural sector, and current initiatives to engage different audiences in Puerto Rico.
December 22, 2023
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Lave captures socio-ecological history of flooding in Wisconsin via news archives

“Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, an unglaciated region defined by steep river valley systems, has been plagued by chronic flooding in part due to Euro-American agricultural practices and anthropogenic climate change. The region, which has played a central role in environmental knowledge production, has a storied history of resilience practices and flood experience.”
December 22, 2023
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Swain: climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators

“Scientific institutions must create roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change.”
December 22, 2023
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Harp Falk: the Chesapeake Bay needs both heart and science to thrive

“To succeed in the next chapter of bay-saving, we’re going to have to widen conservation’s historically narrow lens… this isn’t just about one state, one agency, or one organization; this is an “all of the above” situation. We need to use the science and the data. But we also need to use our heart — our passion, our energy, our compassion and our courage.”
November 27, 2023