Michigan State University’s Environmental Science and Policy Program will host a panel of experts that will discuss what environmental communicators have learned from the climate change debate and what are the best methods to explain complicated scientific issues.
“Environmental Communications – Lessons Learned from Climate Change” will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, in the Lake Huron Room of the MSU Union.
Panelists include:
- Aaron McCright, MSU associate professor of sociology, who is known for his work to explain the political dynamics and public understanding of climate science and policy in the United States.
- Bruno Takahashi, MSU assistant professor of journalism and communication and research director at the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. His research includes how to communicate environmental risks and concerns.,
- Kevin Ells, associate professor of mass communication from Texas A&M University – Texarkana. His studies focus on the practice and critique of environmental discourse in the media.
- Kent Taylor, an MSU alumnus who was appointed by former Vice President Al Gore to the Climate Reality Project. A lecturer for Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, he has a long history of grassroots education on the effects of climate change on coral reef ecology.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information please visit http://www.espp.msu.edu/index.php.