Developing Science Communication Skills in Early Career Scientists

早期职业科学家（定义为本科生、研究生和研究生毕业后几年的学生）需要有效的科学沟通技巧，以便在科学事业中取得巨大成功。该奖项提供资金支持在2021年6月湖沼学家和海洋学科学协会（ASLO）会议之前举办一个研讨会，该研讨会将为早期职业科学家提供口头和视觉交流方面的培训。为期一天的研讨会将帮助大约50名早期职业科学家发展沟通技巧，并将提供与任何听众有效沟通的基础知识。该研讨会将包括两个口头科学交流会议，旨在帮助研究人员编写关于他们的工作的清晰和引人入胜的故事。参与者将有多次机会向现场观众练习简短的研究演讲，并获得互动反馈。研讨会期间将提供两个视觉交流环节，重点是1)创作和发表科学演讲，2)制作引人入胜的图形海报。早期职业科学家特别需要有效的科学沟通技巧，因为他们要么在本科阶段开始他们的科学生涯，要么在研究生阶段发展他们的科学专业。根据先前两次试点讲习班的反馈，组织者期望参与者对有效科学传播的需要的认识以及他们对口头和视觉传播技能的掌握会有显著的提高。研讨会将广泛宣传，并免费提供给ASLO会议的与会者。以前的研讨会参加者是一个多元化的群体，本科生、研究生和博士后学者占与会者的一半以上，以及教职员工和行业研究人员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Early career scientists (defined as undergraduate students, graduate students and those within a few years of graduation from a graduate degree program) need effective science communication skills to be highly successful in a science career. This award provides funding to support a workshop prior to the June 2021 conference of the Association for the Sciences of Limnologist and Oceanography (ASLO) that will provide training in verbal and visual communication to early career scientists. The one-day workshop will help about fifty early career scientists develop communication skills and will provide foundational knowledge for communicating effectively to any audience. The workshop will include two verbal science communication sessions designed to help researchers develop clear and engaging stories about their work. Participants will have repeated opportunities to practice short research pitches to a live audience and receive interactive feedback. Two visual communication sessions will be delivered during the workshop and will focus on 1) creating and delivering a scientific talk and 2) creating an engaging poster with graphics.Early career scientists are particularly in need of effective science communication skills as they are either beginning their science career at the undergraduate level or developing their scientific specialty at the graduate level. Based on feedback from two prior pilot workshops, the organizers expect a significant improvement in the participants' appreciation of the need for effective science communication and in their mastery of verbal and visual communication skills. The workshop will be widely advertised and free to attendees of the ASLO conference. Prior workshop attendees have been a diverse group, with undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars comprising more half of the attendees, and faculty members and industry researchers attending as well.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.