IGN 1 - Up-Goer Five Challenge: Using Common Language to Communicate Your Science to the Public

Tuesday, August 9, 2016: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
316, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
Organizer:
Holly L. Menninger
Co-organizers:
Bethann G. Merkle , Clarisse Hart and Madhusudan Katti
Moderator:
Holly L. Menninger
Can you explain and share what you do using the ten hundred most used words? Word choice and language are important components of science communication, regardless of whether your audience is K-12 students or policy-makers. In the Up-Goer Five Challenge, researchers will explain their science using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language, as highlighted by the xkcd cartoon and companion text editor. Presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion about the role of language in science communication.
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Big green things start tiny
Rebecca S. Barak, Chicago Botanic Garden
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Can I light a fire to save those damn butter flies?
Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University; Heather Cayton, NC State University; Erica H. Henry, North Carolina State University; Elsita Kiekebusch, NC State University
Cancelled
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Cutting down trees makes the land hotter--a problem for animals and the land (widthdrawn)
Kika Tuff, University of Colorado at Boulder
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How science plus religion can save forests
Margaret D. Lowman, California Academy of Sciences
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Bad water, no money? Joining different approaches to save water areas in places without money, make animal homes better, and help people not get sick, damn it
Samantha Oester, George Mason University
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The timing of things is changing because it's getting hotter
David W. Inouye, University of Maryland
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How the blue, flying animals take the homes of the animals that fly and hit at wood with their head
Samuel D. Cowell, Utah State University; Hannah Domgaard, Utah State University; Sara A. Lorscheider, Utah State University; Mariah W. Panoussi, Utah State University; Lindsey L. Parrish, Utah State University; Taryn M. Rodman, Utah State University; Kimberly A. Sullivan, Utah State University
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Where you are on the land matters... at least some times
Jeff Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Whether they are new or old, green things eat the air and ground in different ways
Elizabeth F. Waring, Texas Tech University
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Discussion (until session ends)
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