Upcoming
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication talk and workshop (invited), Communicating Ocean Sciences Workshop at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, AK, January 27, 2025.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (invited, virtual), Mount Allison University, February 2025.
Invited keynote addresses
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication plenary speaker, Water Science Conference jointly hosted by AGU/CUAHSI, St. Paul, MN, June 2024.
Tools for Ethical Science Communication, Institute of Science and Policy Annual Symposium (virtual), December 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Water Communication, California Department of Water Resources Science Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA, October 2023.
Dr. Norm Evans Distinguished Lecture Series, Colorado State University, Ft Collins, CO, June 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Nevada State College Undergraduate Research and Creative Works Conference keynote address, Henderson, NV, April 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, National Park Service, Science Communicators Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Water Communication, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, February 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Water and Climate Communication, PACLIM 2023 - Drought to Deluge: Challenges facing Climate Science and Policy in the West, Pacific Grove, CA, February 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, USGS Risk Community of Practice(virtual), August 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, From Policy to Science to Decisions Symposium, Sustainable Oceans - From Policy To Science To Decisions NRT Program, Davis, CA, June 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Water Communication, Water in the West: Toward Convergent Solutions to Water Security, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, May 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Northwestern Scientific Association (virtual), March 2022.
The Power of Listening, University of Florida's 7th annual Climate Communications Summit (see program and video), Gainesville, FL (virtual), February 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Water Communication. Water Education Foundation Water Summit (virtual), October 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, ComSciCon 2021 (virtual), August 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Land and Water Summit (virtual), February 2021.
Invited public talks
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Resonance and Climate Change Series (virtual), December 2022.
Water, Drought, and Our Future, Castro Valley Library (virtual), February 2022.
Integrating science communication and lived experience in policy efforts at the Salton Sea. Collaborative project with the UC Riverside Center for Health Disparities and Alianza-Coachella Valley. Workshops November 2021 (virtual).
Getting to the Heart of Water Communication, UC Master Gardeners, El Dorado County (virtual), September 2021.
In conversation with Cynthia Barnett, author of "The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans," Warwicks Books (virtual - recorded via Facebook Live), August 2021.
Drought: The Everything Disaster, Pacific Institute and Circle of Blue event (virtual), August 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, CapSciComm hosted event (virtual) with Yanna Lambrinidou, Priya Shukla, and Evelyn Valdez-Ward, June 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, invited talk for the UC California Naturalist program (virtual), March 2021.
Climate One at The Commonwealth Club: The Land of Dreams and Drought, with Mark Arax and Diana Marcum, July 2019, San Francisco.
Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas, in conversation with Tessa Hill, October 2018, Berkeley, CA.
Comfort with discomfort: Relational skills in conservation efforts, Cal Naturalist Regional Rendezvous, Pepperwood Preserve, October 2017, Santa Rosa, CA.
A relationship-centered approach to conservation, Pepperwood Preserve lecture series. October 2016, Santa Rosa, CA.
Invited professional/conference talks and workshops
Getting to the Heart of Climate Communication, US Environmental Protection Agency Climate Conversations Seminar Series (virtual), November 2024.
Science communication theory to practice (virtual), Carson Scholars at the University of Arizona, October 2024.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication talk and workshop, Washington State Sea Grant, Friday Harbor, WA, October 2024.
Getting to the Heart of Climate Communication (virtual), Climatebase, September 2024.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Carson Scholars Program at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March 2024.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (virtual), AgResearch New Zealand, February 2024
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (virtual), ICF Environment, January 2024.
Power Dynamics in Community-based Extension Workshop, Sea Grant Extension Assembly, San Diego, CA, November 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Fire Communication invited talk, Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (virtual), November 2023.
Water, Water Everywhere? Harnessing Floodwaters for Water Supply panel moderator, California Lawyers Association 32nd Annual Environmental Law Conference, Fish Camp, CA, October 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, National Undergraduate Consortium of Science Journalism (virtual), October 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Water Communication Workshop, California Department of Water Resources Science Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA, October 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Science Communicators of North Carolina (virtual), May 2023.
The Wildfire-Stormwater Nexus discussant, UCLA Water (virtual), April 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication workshop (with keynote address), National Park Service, Science Communicators Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 2023.
Engaged Communication: Talking About Climate, COVID-19, and Other Catastrophes panelist, Changing Climates: Equity and Adaptation in a Warming World workshop (virtual), July 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Water Communication workshop, Universities Council on Water Resources Annual Meeting, Greenville, SC, June 2022.
Civic Engagement in American Climate Policy: Collaborative Models, Climate and Science Communication panelist, Washington, DC, May 2022.
Author meets critics: Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (virtual), February 2022.
Outreach Programs Panel, Beyond Academia Conference 2022, UC Berkeley (virtual), February 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: Taking Relational Work Seriously in Practice, in "Science and Society: Science Communication Practice, Research, and Reflection", American Geophysical Union (virtual), December 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, in "Sharing Their Science: Enabling Scientists to Engage Audiences", American Geophysical Union (virtual), December 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication. American Water Resources Association (virtual), November 2021.
Talking about Climate Change with Producers. Train the Trainer Program for Oregon Agricultural Professionals workshop, ORCAN (virtual), November 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication. Wonder Labs Living with Fire Design Challenge group (virtual), October 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, with Evelyn Valdez-Ward, Sarah Myhre, and Mike Antos. Switzer Foundation (virtual), October 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Ohio State University Extension Educators Meeting (virtual), August 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Fire Exchange Network (virtual), August 2021.
Working Together Toward Trauma-Aware Risk Communication, with Sarah Watson and Susanne Moser. Social Coast Forum, February 2020, Charleston, SC.
Well-being For All: Working With Emotion and Conflict in Service of Community, invited to union session U13B - Emotional Well-being and Career Stress in Earth Science. American Geophysical Union annual meeting, December 2019, San Francisco, CA.
Opportunities & Challenges for Public Scholars, with Tessa Hill. Shaping the Conversation: Women in STEAM Communications Leadership Workshop, UC Davis, December 2019, Davis, CA.
Conversing with Clientele about Climate Change workshop, National Sustainability Summit & National Extension Energy Summit, April 2019, Tampa, FL.
Paleo to policy workshop, February 2019, UC Davis - Bodega Marine Lab.
Research and Extension in Freshwater Science in the UCs and CSUs panel, 25th Annual Meeting of the California Aquatic Bioassessment Workgroup, October 2018, Davis, CA.
No one-size-fits-all: Finding *your* way of communicating climate change workshop, Integrating Climate Change in California Cooperative Extension Programs, February 2018, Fresno, CA.
Relational approaches to climate change communication in cooperative extension workshop, Hawaiʻi Extension Climate Forum, University of Hawai'i, June 2017, Honolulu, HI.
Relational approaches to social media in extension workshop, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Water Strategic Initiative Conference, March 2017, Ontario, CA.
Climate change: From vulnerability to resilience, Southwest Extension Climate Change Workshop, University of Arizona, December 2016, Tucson, AZ.
Relational approaches to science communication and engagement workshop, Research to Policy: Pathways to successful engagement in agricultural, natural resources, and food issues 2016, Davis, CA.
A relational approach to environmental work, Religion and Ecology Summit 2016, California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA.
Trauma in ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ natural disasters invites varied perspectives and responses, Disasters, extreme events, trauma, and resilience: Researchers and responders working together, University of California, Riverside, November 2016, Riverside, CA.
From communication to engagement: Strategic relationship-building with social media (part of workshop on Communicating Research), Society for Range Management Annual Meeting 2015, Sacramento, CA.
Engaging ecologists in public policy: Revisiting ESA recommendations (panelist), Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2013, Minneapolis, MN.
Exploring diverse career pathways in ecology workshop (panelist), Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2013, Minneapolis, MN.
Engaging ecologists in public policy: Revisiting ESA recommendations (panelist), Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2013, Minneapolis, MN.
Exploring diverse career pathways in ecology workshop (panelist), Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2013, Minneapolis, MN.
Invited campus talks
Microbiology and Immunology and Scientists in Training (MIST) Club, University of Washington, November 2023.
Environmental Crisis Communications seminar, University of Rhode Island, November 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, University of the District of Columbia (virtual), January 2023.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, University of Maryland, Baltimore (virtual), October 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Water Communication, Oklahoma State University (virtual), October 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Mills College (virtual), April 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, North Carolina State University (virtual, available as video and podcast), April 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Arizona State University, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation (virtual), March 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Vanderbilt - Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar (virtual), March 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, UNC Chapel Hill Pipettepen series (virtual), March 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (video), Southern Illinois University Carbondale & Universities Council on Water Resources (virtual), February 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Amplify at UW College of the Environment (virtual), February 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Grizzly Corps, UC Berkeley (virtual), February 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, University of Florida Water Institute, Gainesville, FL (virtual), February 2022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Kettering - Science and Democracy course (virtual), February 2022.
Science Communication and Community Engagement, Vanderbilt - Community Engaged Science course (virtual), January 22022.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, University of Arizona (virtual), December 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, University of Minnesota, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate Seminar (virtual), September 2021.
Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, University of Florida, Department of Neuroscience (virtual), August 2021.
Expanding Climate Change Writing, presentation for Art of Writing course at UC Berkeley (virtual), March 2021.
Trauma-Aware Science Communication, College of Charleston (virtual), April 2020.
Environmental Science and Policy Careers Panel panelist, UC Center Sacramento (virtual), April 2020.
Science Communication (virtual) for Grad Professional Development course at UC Merced, December 2020.
California Water, Global Water course at UC Berkeley (virtual), August 2020.
Climate and Science Communication, Climate, Atmosphere, and Ocean Dynamics Group, Stanford University (virtual), May 2020.
Fire and water: Environmental crisis communication in the 21st century. University of Rhode Island (virtual), November 2019.
Humanities Careers in Science History, Policy, and Communication Career Professionalization Panel, UC Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine (virtual), October 2019.
Translating your science. Panel discussion and workshop, April 2019, UC Davis.
Science communication and policy careers panel, UCR Science to Policy Program, March 2019, UC Riverside.
California's continuing water odyssey, UC Berkeley Journalism School, July 2018, Berkeley, CA.
From drought to deluge & (maybe) back again: California’s water odyssey, for the National Defense University, April 2018, Oakland, CA.
Invited campus visit: 1) 21st science careers, 2) Fire, drought, and climate change: Science communication on emotional, contentious topics, and 3) Comfort with discomfort: Practicing relationship-centered science communication techniques, University of Utah, Society, Water, and Climate Group, October 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.
Water: Ways of knowing, ways of being conference panelist, April 2017, Merced, CA.
From drought to deluge: California’s water odyssey, for the National Defense University, April 2017, Oakland, CA.
Uncertainty and experimentation with relational approaches to science engagement, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Geography Colloquium, October 2016, Chapel Hill, NC.
Contributed talks and posters
California Research and Extension with the Water Talk Podcast: Expertise, reflection, and best practices, AGU 2020 poster (virtual) with Mallika Nocco and Sam Sandoval.
Paleo to Policy: A Workshop to Build Bridges Between Paleoclimate Research and Decision Making, with Tessa Hill (speaker), Hannah Palmer, Peter Roopnarine, Kena Fox-Dobbs, Andrea Dutton, Lance Morgan, Anthony Rogers, Kim Cobb, Aradhna Tripati, Whitley Saumweber. American Geophysical Union annual meeting, December 2019, San Francisco, CA.
Advancing Climate Change Policy and Environmental Justice in California, workshop co-organizer with Clare Gupta, Wei-ting Chen, and Nina Ichikawa, October 2019, Half Moon Bay, CA.
Cultivating strategic and intentional relationships for coproduction of actionable science (interactive session, co-organized with Sarah Reed, Wildlife Conservation Society), North American Congress for Conservation Biology, July 2018, Toronto, Ontario.
1) Climate Communication in California Cooperative Extension and 2) Marshaling Your Inner Resources for Better Extension Practice workshop, UC ANR Statewide Conference, April 2018, Ontario, CA.
Comfort with discomfort: A relationship-centered approach to conservation communication, Society for Conservation Biology, North American Congress for Conservation Biology 2016, Madison, WI.
Climate change across the curriculum: Engaging academic disciplines in climate change education, Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences 2016, Washington, DC.
Teaching a relational approach to climate change: Working with people and conflict, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2015, San Francisco, CA.
Becoming a boundary spanner – mastering the path of the scientist change-maker (part of an Ignite session co-organized with Lori Hidinger, ASU: Boundary organizations: Bridging the gap between science and policy), Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2014, Sacramento, CA.
Another kind of knowledge: Understanding how relationships drive science communication and policy (part of an Ignite session co-organized with M.V. Johnson, USDA: Demystifying science communication, policy, and decision-making: Experiences of scientist-practitioners), Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2013, Minneapolis, MN.
Working with conflict: A missing piece of science communication and community engagement puzzle, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2012, Portland, OR.
The potential of mindfulness and other contemplative practices in community engagement, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2011, Austin, TX.
Sustainability and natural disasters: A spatial, process-based approach to reaching a sustainable coexistence with fire, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2006, Memphis, TN.
Linking pattern and process: The relationship between landscape metrics and freshwater communities. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2003, New Orleans, LA.
Linking pattern and process: The relationship between landscape metrics and freshwater communities. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2002, Tucson, AZ.