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May 12, 2016
Earth, Space, and the Hill: My Experience at the Intersection of Science and Policy
By Megan Brown When I first saw the announcement for the AGU Congressional Visits Day (CVD) with a specific call for scientists from Colorado, I was excited about the opportunity to get involved and learn more about the policy making process. My research focuses on induced seismicity, and since this is a topic that is on the minds of the public and policymakers, I thought I could contribute to AGU CVD in …
May 9, 2016
Funding Season is Open: Part 2
Welcome back for the next round of federal science funding reporting. As you may recall from last week’s post, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed two appropriations bills in April, and today we’ll be focusing on the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) spending bill – the bill that funds NASA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), among other agencies. We covered NASA last week, and this week we have the information on NOAA …
January 5, 2016
Science Communication, All Communication
Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Lindsay Barbieri, PhD Student, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources, University of Vermont At this year’s AGU Fall Meeting, I attended a session on “The Many Sides of Sharing Science: A How To,” which covered a wide variety of approaches to science communication. From children reviewing science papers, to comic book conventions, to …
December 31, 2015
Communicating Science Means Saving Lives
Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Emmanuel “Soli” Garcia, University of California San Diego My recollection of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991 is dim in quite a literal sense. I may not recall much from my early childhood, but I still have memories of how ash fell on my neighborhood in Manila just under 60 miles away. As dark …
December 30, 2015
“What Happens in the Arctic, Doesn’t Stay in the Arctic”
Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Andrés Sánchez, National Autonomous University of Mexico At AGU’s Fall Meeting this year I attended a session on “Exploring the Role of Arctic Science in Developing International Arctic Policy”. The session gave way to a very interesting morning, with people from all over the world and different points of view working towards the same …
December 29, 2015
Art and Emotions Can Unify Us – How About Science and Humanity?
Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Azie Sophia Aziz, PhD student in geophysics at the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University of Houston, Texas. “Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” – Henri Poincare At the AGU Fall …
December 28, 2015
The Magic Ingredient for Linking Climate Resources to Community Resilience? It Might be Trust.
Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Lindsay Barbieri, PhD Student, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources, University of Vermont Regardless if you are engaging on the resource side or the community side, trust plays a critical role in building climate resilience. At this year’s AGU Fall Meeting, I attended a season on “Evolving the US Climate Resilience Toolkit to Support a …
December 17, 2015
Friend or Foe of Science? The FY 2016 Omnibus Appropriations Bill
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and in the spirit of giving, Congress just released an enormous $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the entire federal government for fiscal year 2016 (FY16). Since October 1st, when the fiscal year officially started, the federal government has been funded by a series of temporary funding bills – called continuing resolutions (CRs) – to give Congress time to compromise on …
October 22, 2014
Congress and Me: A Scientist in DC
This past September, I participated in the Geosciences Congressional Visits Day (Geo-CVD) sponsored by AGU. As public support for science is waning, I have realized that we as scientists really need to step up our game on communicating, both with the public and with policy makers. Obviously we are versed in selling the importance of our science to our peers, but we need to do the same for the audience …
October 1, 2014
Nobody Lobbies for Geosciences Like Geoscientists
I confess that, if I had my druthers, I would spend my days solely ‘sciencing’—conducting fieldwork in remote places, examining samples in the laboratory, and interpreting data with my graduate students. I am now convinced that geosciences advocacy should be added to my list of regular duties.