{"id":61768,"date":"2011-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/communicating-science-the-topic-of-next-uri-vetlesen-lecture-mar-8\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T00:00:00","slug":"communicating-science-the-topic-of-next-uri-vetlesen-lecture-mar-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/communicating-science-the-topic-of-next-uri-vetlesen-lecture-mar-8\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Communicating Science\u2019 the topic of next 溏心vlog免费B站 Vetlesen lecture, Mar. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 1, 2011 \u2013 Chris Reddy, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and an expert on oil spills, will take his scientist colleagues to task when he presents a lecture entitled \u201cCommunicating Science: Lessons Learned from an Environmental Crisis\u201d at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Mar. 8 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n


\n\tHis presentation, in Edward\u2019s Auditorium on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston campus, is part of the University\u2019s Vetlesen lecture series on \u201cThe State of the Oceans\u201d in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Graduate School of Oceanography. Sponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Harrington School of Communication and Media, the event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn his lecture, Reddy will argue that scientists must take greater responsibility for communicating science to the public.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAcademia does great at science, but it is poor at communicating about that science,\u201d said Reddy. \u201cEverybody wants to blame the press, and the media do need to improve, but I think scientists need to improve more. They just don\u2019t speak the same language that the public does, and it\u2019s really important that they do.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tA marine chemist who earned a Ph.D in oceanography from 溏心vlog免费B站, Reddy was awarded an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship in 2006, which teaches scientists to communicate environmental science to the public, media, and policymakers. He presents scientific talks to lay audiences throughout the country and has published more than 20 op-ed articles or editorials on science-based issues in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and other publications. <\/p>\n


\nReddy is a marine chemist who has studied several oil spills in the last 15 years, including the 1996 North Cape spill on the Rhode Island coast and the 2003 spill in Buzzard\u2019s Bay. He traveled aboard the 溏心vlog免费B站 research vessel Endeavor last summer to study the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, where he was the first to report finding a sizeable underwater plume of oil after BP and government officials said that no plume existed.<\/p>\n


\n\tA native Rhode Islander, Reddy studies the impact of oil spills and other contaminants on coastal ecosystems. He is also beginning to turn his attention to biodiesel by trying to anticipate and analyze how this new fuel might react when it inevitably mixes with water.<\/p>\n


\nThe lecture series is sponsored by the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, with individual lectures supported by the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts & Sciences, the Harrington School of Communication and Media, and Rhode Island Sea Grant. The series is coordinated by Professors Steven D\u2019Hondt, Arthur Spivack and Judith Swift, and Sunshine Menezes, director of the Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting.<\/p>\n


\nThe remaining speakers in the series are:<\/p>\n


\nMarch 29 \u2013 Robert Ballard, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of oceanography, on \u201cThe Last Great Frontier.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nApr. 5 \u2013 Norbert Wu, independent filmmaker and photographer of the marine environment, on \u201cExploring the World\u2019s Notable and Threatened Underwater habitats.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nApr. 12 \u2013 Deborah Kelley, professor of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Washington, on \u201cMeasuring Change Across the Global Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nApr. 26 \u2013 Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. senator, on \u201cSteering a Course Toward a National Ocean Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFor more information about the lecture series, visit www.uri.edu\/vetlesen or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 1, 2011 \u2013 Chris Reddy, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and an expert on oil spills, will take his scientist colleagues to task when he presents a lecture entitled \u201cCommunicating Science: Lessons Learned from an Environmental Crisis\u201d at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Mar. 8 at 7:30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}