Happy December! Here's our monthly update, including events, opportunities, and resources.
Thank you to all who attended our business meeting on December 5, 2022. It was wonderful getting to know some of our members.
Join us in January!
We are incredibly excited to hold candid conversations with communication and engagement experts on the first Wednesday of each month through our NEW monthly webinar series.
Use this link to join our conversation on January 4, 2023 at 5pm pacific time.
National Academies Names Jacquelyn Gill, Former Governing Board Member, Award Recipient for Excellence in Science Communication
On October 12, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced the inaugural recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communication. These prestigious awards recognize science journalists and research scientists who have developed creative, original work that addresses issues and advances in science, engineering, and/or medicine for the general public. Among the awardees: Jacquelyn Gill, recent ESA Governing Board Member and recipient of the 2022 W.S. Cooper Award for a study of seabirds in the Falkland Islands. Dr. Gill is recognized by NASEM for her Warm Regards podcast, one of the first to focus on climate, as well as for her science communication on Twitter. The winners will be honored during a recognition event and workshop on November 11 and 12 in Washington, D.C. Congratulations, Dr. Gill!
warmregardspodcast.com Episodes from Warm Regards Warm Regards is a podcast about life on a warming planet. The show is hosted by Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, and Ramesh Laungani, a biologist at Doane University. Produced by Justin Schell, with transcription and social media support from Joe Stormer and Katherine Peinhardt. Our conversations are often honest and raw, as we talk with newsmakers, researchers, activists, policymakers, artists, and others as we push past the graphs and the headlines to get at the heart of what it means to live and work in a warming world. Our current season focuses on the often unexpected human stories behind climate data, from how it's collected to what we do with it. We're just… Show more
Twitter Dr. Jacquelyn Gill on Twitter “The entire world is telling us, each and every day, that the biggest problems we face have individual solutions, from masks to carbon footprints. And of course it feels overwhelming, because none of us is capable of fixing the world. Of course it feels like too much: it is.”
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