Conference: Improving Climate Science Communications Between Scientists and the News Media; Kingston, RI; Fall 2003

该奖项为2003年秋季在罗德岛大学举行的题为“改善科学家与新闻媒体之间的气候科学交流”的会议提供了部分支持。该讲习班为期一天半，有气候科学家、环境/科学记者、新闻教育工作者和学生参加，讨论与通过大众媒体向广大受众清晰和简明地传播科学新闻有关的体制和其他专业和文化问题。讲习班的目标是在科学家和记者之间分享关于传播基于科学的新闻和信息方面的挑战的实用信息，并为改善科学家和记者之间的科学交流奠定基础，从而改善公众之间的科学交流，因为公众的大部分科学新闻依赖于大众媒体。研讨会的一个重要元素将是科学和新闻学科之间相互交融产生的智力优势，以及对彼此至关重要的习俗、道德和公认做法的更好理解。研讨会将通过确保研讨会参与者既参与教学又参与学习，并确保他们积极参与与各自专业同龄人的广泛群体分享经验教训，对社会产生更广泛的影响，超出研讨会参与者本身的范围。他们参加讲习班后信息共享/信息转让活动的能力和承诺将是确定讲习班参与者的重要甄选标准。此外，讲习班规划者将建立机制，通过这些机制，后续的科学家/记者讲习班可以从讲习班以前的活动中受益，从而避免重复发明轮子。

This awards provides partial support for a conference entitled, "Improving Climate Science Communication Between Scientists and the News Media" in the autumn of 2003 at the University of Rhode Island. The workshop is a one-and-one-half day workshop involving climate scientists, environmental/science journalists, journalism educators, and students to address institutional and other professional and cultural issues related to clear and concise communication of science news to broad audiences through the mass media. The goal of the workshop is to share practical information among scientists and journalists on challenges in communicating science-based news and information, and to lay the groundwork for improving science communications initially between scientists and journalists and therefore to the general public, which depends on the mass media for most of its science news. An important element of the workshop will be the intellectual merit resulting from the cross-fertilization between the disciplines of science and journalism, and an improved understanding of the mores, ethics, and accepted practices critical to each.The workshop will achieve broader impacts for society, beyond the workshop participants themselves, by ensuring that the workshop participants take part both to teach and to learn, and by ensuring their active involvement in sharing lessons learned with broad segments of their own professional peer groups. Their ability and commitment to participate in post-workshop information sharing/information transfer activities will be an important selection criterion in identifying workshop participants. In addition, workshop planners will establish mechanisms through which subsequent scientist/journalist workshops can benefit from the prior activities of this workshop, thereby avoiding reinventing the wheel.