Abstract
Climate scientists participating in the AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute are engaging communities across the United States in a way that could skirt—and possibly defuse—ideological opposition to acknowledging that the climate is changing. On the front lines of a trend and drawing on training
Highlights
On the front lines of a trend and drawing on training they received after being selected as the 2016 AAAS Leshner Fellows, the scientists are convening community leaders and policy-makers—in fields such as city planning, agriculture, disaster planning, and natural resource management—and asking them directly what kinds of scientific information they need to protect against ongoing changes in the climate, such as record flooding and heat waves
“For me, public engagement is about working from the bottom up—one audience at a time—building relationships and trust, sharing knowledge, and figuring out how to address the needs of stakeholders,” said fellow Benjamin Preston, senior research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and deputy director of the laboratory’s 130-person Climate Change Science Institute
Preston is at Melissa Kenney on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay work on an institution-wide plan to mobilize scientists to find out from city and county leaders “how our science, data, and tools can inform some of their challenging decisions.”
Summary
AAAS Leshner Fellows help confront climate impacts On the front lines of a trend and drawing on training they received after being selected as the 2016 AAAS Leshner Fellows, the scientists are convening community leaders and policy-makers—in fields such as city planning, agriculture, disaster planning, and natural resource management—and asking them directly what kinds of scientific information they need to protect against ongoing changes in the climate, such as record flooding and heat waves.
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