SoMAS - Communication for Actionable Marine and Atmospheric Science

Dr. Julia Hathaway from the Environmental Protection Agency speaks to SoMAS at the Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Seminar on Wednesday September 4, 2024 on the topic "Communication for Actionable Marine and Atmospheric Science".
Julia received her PhD in Communication Science at George Mason Univ. and was a post-doc within the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science within the School of Journalism and Communication (SJoC) for two of years before getting a job at EPA as an Environmental Protection Specialist. Before earning her Ph.D. she served as Congressional staff for a Florida Congressman and then a Senator, and later returned to Capitol Hill as legislative staff for the Committee on Natural Resources. In addition to working for federal agencies and climate and environmental advocacy nonprofits in D.C., she launched and led two grassroots environmental justice campaigns in the State of Florida.
Abstract:
Complex environmental problems have both scientific and socio-ecological dimensions. In addition to understanding the interconnected components of the natural environment, we are contending with interrelated dimensions of human relationships with nature and each other. For example, climate change disproportionately affects people who have contributed the least to its causes. Ocean policy has long been inequitable across racial and economic lines. In the face of these multiple and interacting challenges, researchers, stakeholders, policy makers, resource managers, practitioners, and other decision makers are increasingly working together to co-create actionable knowledge for workable and durable solutions. In this presentation, I discuss how natural and social science together can contribute to increasing community resilience in the face of storm surge flooding, an escalating threat to vulnerable coastal communities. Specifically, I describe a novel workshop designed to encourage individual and community decision making using immersive visualization and the Ethical Matrix, a deliberative tool, to help make risk “feelable” and illuminate diverse stakeholders’ values and needs as a precursor to more effective and inclusive collaboration.
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