This roundtable brings together scientists and scientific storytellers to ask: What narrative strategies have been useful and effective in communicating scientific knowledge about climate change and thereby moving citizens to action?
Speakers
Gisela Winckler is a climate scientist and isotope geochemist. Her research focuses on the history and causes of climate variability in the past, present, and future. She uses elemental and isotopic analyses to unravel processes of climate and environmental change in the oceans and on continents, on time scales ranging from decades to tens of millions of years. Her research on the interplay of climate change, the carbon cycle and aerosols uses climate archives such as deep-sea sediments, lake sediments and polar ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland.
Miranda Massie is the founding director of the Climate Museum, the groundbreaking organization that boosts civic engagement with climate by uniting arts, learning, and activism. The Museum’s work empowers visitors who are worried about climate change but unsure what to do—a majority of US adults—to feel their own agency and to inspire others. Miranda left an award-winning career in social justice litigation to launch the Museum. Her many honors include serving as a Climate, Earth, and Society Distinguished Fellow at Columbia Climate School and a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and one of the premier science communicators working today. A former cosmologist, Marvel received a PhD in theoretical physics from Cambridge University. She led the “Climate Trends” chapter in the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment, has given a TED Talk, appeared on Meet the Press and The Ezra Klein Show, and testified before the U.S. Congress. She has written for Scientific American, Nautilus magazine, and the On Being Project. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Climate Change Conversations: Taking Action against Shock, Silence, and Stupidity series events aim to re-energize interdisciplinary conversations at Columbia about the climate emergency, at a moment when confronting the urgent and ever-growing challenges posed by global warming feels extraordinarily difficult.
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