Developing Science Communication Skills in Early Career Scientists

科学传播现在被认为是职业发展和公众理解科学的重要技能。进入劳动力市场的早期职业科学家（本科生，研究生，毕业两年内）必须准备好向广泛的受众传播科学，从普通公众到实验室小组再到研究会议科学家。有效的交流需要科学家为那些科学背景有限的人以及专业知识与演讲者不同的科学家提供视觉和口头的科学信息。不幸的是，很少有项目为早期职业科学家提供沟通培训。该项目将通过一个结合虚拟和面对面的研讨会，专注于口头和视觉科学沟通技能，为早期职业科学家提供这样的专业发展。为期半天的虚拟编程将在为期一天的现场研讨会前几周举行。现场研讨会将为与会者提供一个在大型海洋科学会议之前练习演讲的机会。本次研讨会将以以前的研讨会（2019年至2021年）为基础，并纳入往年与会者修改研讨会内容的要求。例如，讲习班现在在口头会议中包含更多以国际为重点的意识，在视觉部分中包含科学会议的海报/演示技巧。研讨会将包括两位视觉通信和口头通信专家的演讲。一些工作将在会议之前进行，现场研讨会将与2023年6月的湖沼学和海洋学科学协会（ASLO）会议一起举行，该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

Science communication is now recognized as an important skill for career advancement and for public understanding of science. Early career scientists (undergraduate, graduate, within two years of graduation) who are entering the workforce must be prepared to communicate science to a wide range of audiences, from the general public to lab groups to research conference scientists. Effective communications require scientists to visually and verbally translate scientific information for those with limited backgrounds in science as well as for scientists whose expertise varies from the presenter. Unfortunately, very few programs offer communications training to early career scientists. This project will provide such professional development to early career scientists via a combined virtual and in-person workshop focused on verbal and visual science communication skills. The half-day virtual programming will be held several weeks prior to the one-day in-person workshop. The in-person workshop will offer participants an opportunity to practice their presentations prior to a major ocean science conference.This workshop will build upon previous workshops (2019 through 2021) and incorporates requests from participants of prior years to modify the workshop content. For example, the workshop now contains more international-focused awareness in the verbal sessions and poster/presentation skills for a scientific conference in the visual components. The workshop will include presentations from two experts in visual communications and verbal communications. Some work will be held virtually in advance of the conference, and the in-person workshop will be held in conjunction with the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) meeting in June 2023, a meeting that many ocean scientists regularly attend.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.