WFGRS 2017 | Graduate Symposium

Science Communication for Society

The 2017 Western Forestry Graduate Research Symposium was scheduled for April 21st. Graduate students from Oregon had the opportunity to present posters and/or give oral presentations. The symposium was organized entirely by graduate students from within the College of Forestry. A list of the 2017 organizers can be found here.

LaRGe Communication Workshop Registration

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The 2017 Western Forestry Graduate Research Symposium will be preceded by a series of three communication workshops, as described below. As space is limited to 20 students, please register using the form below to confirm your attendance and hold your spot.

Own your science story, in just 300 words

April 5th | 4:00-5:20 PM | Richardson Hall Rm. 107

Bring a 300-words abstract and get the keys to transforming it into a powerful and engaging science story. Get ready to find the most important thing in your research and to communicate your excitement about it to broader audiences with LaRGe’s creator, Francisco Guerrero.

We are all actors

April 12th | 4:00-5:20 PM | Richardson Hall Rm. 115

Credibility and clarity are essential components of science communication. Learn how to enhance both through your stage presence and body language with actor and director Marion Rossi, Associate Dean in OSU’s College of Liberal Arts.

Tell me your story

April 19th | 4:00-5:20 PM | Richardson Hall Rm. 107

A well-crafted story is a magnet for people’s attention. Learn the elements of any good story from Nick Houtman, Assistant Director of Research Communications at OSU and Terra Magazine’s editor.

Please join us in welcoming Teresa Cavazos Cohn!

Person Teresa Cavazos Cohn is a cultural geographer and professor of Science Communication at the University of Idaho’s McCall Field Campus. If not an anti-disciplinarian, Teresa is an interdisciplinarian, who has taught in both Earth Sciences and Environmental Humanities programs, and draws from techniques used in both. Her research includes hydrosocial relationships (with emphasis on Indigenous water issues), culturally-relevant STEM education, and science communication.

Within the field of science communication, Teresa is particularly interested in the role of storytelling in science communication and the environment, and the diversity of its audiences and voices. She explores collaborations between disciplines—such as poets and chemists, or musicians and remote sensors—but also the ways in which science communication supports the creative core of scientists. This creative engagement in the critical issues of our time may be, in physicist David Bohm’s word on creativity, “the most important thing to be done in the circumstances in which humanity now finds itself.”

In addition to building the science communication program at the UI McCall Outdoor Science School, Teresa works with NASA’s Earth to Sky/ABoVE climate change communication program in Canada’s Northwest Territories; the USGS Northwest Climate Science Center-MOSS climate fellows program; and with Northern Arapaho educators on digital storytelling and science initiatives.

2017 Program Schedule

2017 Program & Schedule

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Want a preview of WFGRS?

Please click here to see the program for the 2017 symposium. The program includes:

An introduction to the event
The schedule for the day (you can also see the schedule here)
Blurbs on the keynote speaker and other events
A compilation of all the abstracts for oral and postern presentations

Thank you to our 2017 WFGRS Planning Committee!