Visual SciComm Seminar Series
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Fall 2024 Visual SciComm Seminar
Join us for this virtual speaker series on a wide range of topics related to visual scientific communication.
The Fall series will take place on Fridays (see each session for the exact times). Participants must register for each session separately to receive the Zoom link.
If you are interested in being a future speaker, please email Sara Kobilka at [email protected].
Friday, September 27, 2024, 11am-noon AZ time/2-3pm ET
Reimagining the USGS Water Cycle Diagram
Hayley Corson-Dosch
Data Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey
In October 2022, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released a new water cycle diagram, replacing an older version that had been used internationally by students and educators for over 20 years. The new diagram brings humans into the picture, showing how we interact with and influence the water cycle. Join lead designer Hayley Corson-Dosch to learn about the 18-month redesign process, in which an interdisciplinary team of USGS scientists, designers, and user experience experts redesigned the diagram from scratch to be scientifically accurate, visually effective, and useful in educational settings. (17 attendees)
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Friday, October 11, 2024, 11am-noon AZ time/2-3pm ET
Show and Storytell Me Your Data
DaNel Hogan
Chief Learning Officer, Waters Center for Systems Thinking
Explore the use of a visual systems thinking tool, behavior-over-time graphs, for communication of everything from STEM identity building to scientific phenomenon and more. Draw your own STEM identity behavior-over-time graph to share your personal journey and see how these same graphs can be used to communicate the stories your scientific data are telling us as well. (20 attendees)
Waters Center for Systems Thinking
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Friday, October 25, 2024, 11am-noon AZ time/2-3pm ET
Telling the Marginalized Story
Joan Tu
B.Comm, M.A. Linguistics, MedULingo
Representation is powerful and that’s why Joan turned her story into an iconic children’s book. “The Green Soap Girl & the Itchy Allergy” is not only the first picture book about methylisothiazolinone allergy, but it has also been peer-reviewed and accepted into the Green Chemistry Teaching & Learning Community library as an educational resource. The process of telling a challenging chemical allergy story comes with many lessons to be shared. Joan Tu is an author and the founder of MedULingo a platform for solving medical literacy problems, one book at a time.
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Friday, November 8, 2024, 11am-noon AZ time/1-2pm ET
Mixing Media to Market Science
Shane M Hanlon
Executive Editor, C&EN BrandLab
Visual storytelling is a core tenant of successful science communication. It’s also a crucial element of being a successful marketer. Science communication and the marketing world can learn from one another; however, the two rarely crossover. Shane Hanlon, a scicomm trainer turned editor of a custom content studio, will showcase how mixed-medium storytelling can be effectively used to create content that resonates and captivates, leading to more effective science communication.
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