Collaborative Research-Future Scientists Improving the Public's Climate Literacy: Engaging in Outreach Opportunities Incorporating Strategies From the Learning and Social Sciences

劳伦斯科学大厅和地理系以及加州大学伯克利分校（UCB）大气科学中心与斯克里普斯海洋学研究所（SIO）和华盛顿大学（UW）大气科学系合作，正在努力通过设计和开发一门新的大学课程来提高公众的气候素养，该课程包括在当地非正式的科学教育机构（ISEI），如博物馆，科学中心或水族馆。本课程为本科生和研究生-未来的科学家-提供公共气候素养的跨学科知识，人们如何学习，以及如何与非科学家进行有效的互动。学生在当地ISEI实践和应用他们的知识，这有助于增加公众对气候变化的理解，并加强学生对气候科学的理解。该项目的目标是：1）发展本科生和研究生的科学沟通技能，以及教师，在UCB，SIO和UW; 2）推进公众的气候素养，包括他们对气候变化科学的理解，其社会，政治和经济背景，以及其对当地环境和社区的影响，通过学生在本课程中的推广工作; 3）作为一个模式，以改善跨学科的对话有关气候变化和气候扫盲大学，并发展大学和当地ISEI之间的伙伴关系。这一为期18个月的项目包括为一门新的课程“促进气候扫盲”合作开发多学科大学课程，这门课程将由三所合作大学的科学教师进行试点，并作为未来传播工作的典范。

The Lawrence Hall of Science and the Department of Geography and Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), in collaboration with Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and the University of Washington's (UW) Department of Atmospheric Sciences, are working to improve public climate literacy by designing and developing sessions for a new college course that includes an outreach practicum at a local informal science education institutions (ISEI), such as a museum, science center or aquarium. This course provides undergraduate and graduate students - future scientists - with cross-disciplinary knowledge of public climate literacy, how people learn, and how to engage in effective interactions with non-scientists. Students practice and apply their knowledge in a local ISEI, which serves to both increase the public's understanding of climate change and reinforce the student's understanding of climate science. The goals of this project are to: 1) develop the science communication skills of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty, at UCB, SIO, and UW; 2) advance the public's climate literacy, including their understanding of climate change science, its social, political and economic contexts, and its impacts on their local environment and community, through the outreach efforts of the students in this course; and 3) serve as a model to improve cross-disciplinary dialog about climate change and climate literacy within universities, and develop partnerships between universities and their local ISEIs. This 18-month project includes collaborative development of multi-disciplinary college course sessions for a new course, Promoting Climate Literacy, which will be piloted by science faculty at the three collaborating universities and serve as a model for future dissemination efforts.