Outreach to the Public: Workshops at ASLO Meetings

该奖项将支持湖沼学和海洋学协会(ASLO)冬季年度会议上的讲习班。所涉期间包括2012年将在盐湖城举行的海洋科学会议，这是海洋科学协会、美国地球物理联合会和海洋学会的共同努力，以及2013年将在新奥尔良举行的海洋科学会议。每次会议将有两个工作坊，一个是在正式会议安排前的星期日举行的视频工作坊(电影节)，另一个是在工作日举行的晚间小组讨论。这些讲习班的根本需要是，环境科学界在向公众传达我们今天面临的环境问题的严重性以及在公众和民选官员中培养对补救行动的兴趣方面做得很差。通过这项工作，我们将在研究界内提高认识，认识到需要更多的外联活动，并就如何更好地宣传我们的研究结果提供指导。

This award will support workshops at annual winter meetings of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). The period to be covered includes the 2012 Ocean Sciences meeting to be held in Salt Lake City as a joint effort among ASLO, the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and The Oceanography Society (TOS) and the 2013 ASLO Aquatic Sciences meeting to be held in New Orleans. The PI will have two workshops at each meeting, one will be a video workshop (film festival) to be held on the Sunday before the formal meeting schedule and the other will be an evening panel discussion during the week. The underlying need for these workshops is that the environmental science community is doing a poor job of conveying to the general public the severity of environmental problems we face today and developing an interest within the public and elected officials for remedial actions. Through this work we will create a greater awareness within the research community of the need for more outreach and to provide guidance on how to better communicate the results of our research.