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The National Research Councilâs (NRC) Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST) and Board on Science Education (BOSE) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a framework...
DATE: November 1st, 2013
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The Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), in collaboration with the Yale Project on Climate Change and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, is conducting a three-year project whose goal is to...
DATES: September 15th, 2008 - August 31st, 2012
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Communicating Climate Change (C3) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project to foster innovative partnerships between research centers, the media, and science centers. David Heil & Associates, Inc. (DHA)...
DATE: October 1st, 2009
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In December 2008, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in partnership with the New England Aquarium and the National Aquarium in Baltimore, hosted a summit of leaders from aquariums across North America...
DATE: August 6th, 2013
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The Climate Interpretation Coalition is maturing beyond a set of discrete institutions to become a collective voice for communicating climate change and the ocean. As the threeÂâyear funded NOAA program...
DATE: August 6th, 2013
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0813135 (""Communicating Climate Change (C3)"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Sustainability Science and Informal Science Education, February 6th, 2012....
DATE: February 6th, 2012
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This report grew out of work by the Issues Laboratory Collaborative, in which five science museums joined together to investigate effective ways to present issues in science and technology and...
DATE: January 1st, 1995
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Information visualization could be used to leverage the credibility of displayed scientific data. However, little was known about how display characteristics interact with individuals' predispositions to affect perception of data...
DATE: June 18th, 2018
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Metaphors and visualizations are important for science communication, though they may have limitations. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a novel interactive visualization, the "Dynamic Evolutionary Map"' (DEM),...
DATE: March 13th, 2014
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It is often said that a new era is beginning, one that is founded on knowledge, thus envisaging a new society, founded on information. Meanwhile, technological innovation already characterises our...
DATE: March 21st, 2002
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0917614 (""Communicating Ocean Sciences Informal Education Network: Scientists Working Together to Promote Ocean Literacy"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Organizational Networks, November 17th, 2011....
DATE: November 17th, 2011
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This proposal is from a coalition of cross disciplinary investigators at the Lawrence Hall of Science/Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence at the University of California, Berkeley. The investigators intend...
DATES: September 1st, 2009 - August 31st, 2013
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Communicating Ocean Sciences to Informal Audiences (COSIA) is an innovative project that creates unique partnerships between informal science education institutions and local colleges conducting research in ocean sciences, with an...
DATES: March 1st, 2006 - February 28th, 2010
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The following three case studies are descriptive and evaluative in nature, and are designed to describe, explain, and portray in some detail three examples of COSIA partnerships. These cases are...
DATE: June 1st, 2010
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True to the design we formulated in our proposal, the Inverness Research evaluation studied the COSIA project on two levels: Partnerships and Contributions. The logic underlying these two layers of...
DATE: May 27th, 2010
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This virtual conference proposal would bring together NSF researchers and their media partners who worked collaboratively on previous NSF projects involved with communicating research to public audiences (the now archived...
DATES: April 1st, 2015 - March 31st, 2016
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This two-year project is communicating the results of scientific discoveries produced by an on-going LTER (Long-term Ecological Research) project devoted to understanding the Everglades ecosystem. Specifically, Dr. Heithaus is capitalizing...
DATES: July 1st, 2010 - June 30th, 2013
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What do images communicate about humansâ place in nature? Medin and Bang posit that the artifacts used to communicate scienceâincluding words, photographs, and illustrationsâcommonly reflect the cultural orientations of their...
DATE: January 1st, 2015
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The goals of this workshops project are: (1) to provide collaborative professional development opportunities for 24 early professional social science researchers, and science writers and communicators, and (2) to foster...
DATES: March 1st, 2012 - February 28th, 2014
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Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result, people face an increasing need to integrate information from science with their personal values and...
DATE: December 14th, 2016
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have released a new research agenda on Communicating Science Effectively. The report examines some of the unique challenges connecting research and practice in science communication, especially with regards to topics subject to public controversy, and encourages the use of scientific processes to develop evidence-based strategies for effective ...
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DATE: December 14th, 2016
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The 13th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference (PCST) conference offered a valuable opportunity for over 500 science communicators to congregate and network with the international community. While...
DATE: September 22nd, 2014
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Scientists for whom English is not their first language report disadvantages with academic communication internationally. This case study explores preliminary evidence from non-Anglophone scientists in an Australian research organisation, where...
DATE: November 17th, 2016
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of Comics & Science workshops where forty-one teenagers (designated Trainee Science Comic Authors [TSCAs]) are asked to create a one-page...
DATE: May 22nd, 2018
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Botanic gardens are popular destinations for school visits to learn about plant-based science. However, little is known about teaching and learning in such settings, in particular about school visits guided...
DATE: March 1st, 2014