Communicating Climate Change Science
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
12:30 pm
Alfred Lerner Hall Room 555, Columbia University, Morningside Campus

Researchers often come up against the challenge of effectively communicating complex data to an audience beyond academia. In the case of climate-change science, this challenge is a special one. Now a highly politicized issue, climate change has camps of interested parties among specialists, policy makers, and the general public. Join us for a conversation about what researchers should do to make scientific data on climate change widely accessible and interpretable.  More info.

"RESEARCH WITHOUT BORDERS" SPEAKER SERIES
The Scholarly Communication Program at CU Libraries/Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship presents a speaker series for the 2009-10 academic year on today’s pivotal issues in scholarly communication.

Join us for the second year of events exploring how scholars and researchers can take advantage of new and powerful ways of creating, sharing, reusing, and preserving knowledge. The series is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more info, email Kathryn Pope at kp2002@columbia.edu, or visit http://scholcomm.columbia.edu.