Science Communications

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Wilkinson publishes on public interest in individual animals bolstering wildlife conservation

Inspired by ‘P-22’, a mountain lion who was monitored for a decade in the Los Angeles area, Christine Wilkinson’s piece in Nature Ecology & Evolution discusses the broader conservation benefits of naming and narrative around individual study animals.
March 21, 2023
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Fraga quoted in Guardian on ramifications of superbloom recreation

Naomi Fraga was featured in the Guardian story: California town hopes to put tourists off the scent as another super bloom looms.
March 21, 2023
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Karly Hampshire

2022 Fellow
Karly works at the intersection of medical education, climate change, and health. Her passion for climate advocacy was seeded by her undergraduate work with refugee and immigrant populations and recognition of climate change as a driving force for conflict and displacement.
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Diana Fu

2021 Fellow
Diana currently supports programs in public engagement and equity at the San Francisco Estuary Partnership.
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Scientists need to become better communicators, but it’s hard to measure whether training works

Editor's note: This piece, written by Switzer Fellow Margaret Rubega, Robert Wyss and Robert Capers was originally published in The Conversation.
April 28, 2021
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Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz

2020 Fellow
Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz is an interdisciplinary social scientist and writer based in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. His participatory and applied work explores the social dimensions of food systems, in relation to climate adaptation and public health outcomes, in the context of disasters and natural hazards.
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Melissa Cronin

2019 Fellow
Melissa Cronin is a Smith Conservation Research Fellow and postdoctoral researcher hosted by the Coasts and Commons Co-Laboratory at Duke University. She is an interdisciplinary marine conservation scientist and studies the impacts of industrial fishing on ecosystems, threatened species, and human communities. She is co-founder of the conservation organization Mobula Conservation (www.mobulaconservation.org) and co-founder and CEO of FieldFutures (www.fieldfutures.org).
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Christine Wilkinson

2019 Fellow
Christine Wilkinson is a conservation scientist and science communicator at University of California, Santa Cruz and the California Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include multidisciplinary mapping, human-wildlife conflict...
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David Gonzalez: Translating research Into public policy

Fellow David Gonzalez reports on his experiences at the Switzer Spring Retreat Policy Communications Training and the UC Grad Research Advocacy Day.
April 18, 2018
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Up your #scicomm game anytime, anywhere with new online workbook from COMPASS

Our communications training partner, COMPASS, has released an online version of the Message Box Workbook, designed to help you change the way you think and talk about your work.
August 17, 2017