[LTER-commcom] Share Your Science: Blogging for Magazines, Newspapers and More

Sun Oct 15 02:25:21 PDT 2017

Hi Julie and Clarisse,

Thanks for the update.  For the LTER stories, we have received
contributions from 25 of 26 sites and just about all have been through one
round of review and revision. We are now assembling them into five articles
for submission to ECOSPHERE.  As we compile the stories, we are
trying/hoping to extract some themes that might be useful for communication
to broader audiences.

Bests wishes on the health and maternity issues!

Peter

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Peter M. Groffman

Senior Research Fellow

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

2801 Sharon Turnpike

Millbrook, NY

Phone:  845-677-7600, ext. 128

FAX: 845-677-5976

Email: groffmanp at caryinstitute.org

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Thank you, Marty, for sharing this resource!

Getting down to LTER CommComm business:

We (Julie and Clarisse) are writing jointly to request a hiatus in official
LTER Communication Committee leadership until March 2018, with suggestions
for interim committee direction below.

We each have been managing health and maternity issues and are working
part-time; CommComm business is beyond the scope of what is possible right
now. So we suggest the following approach:

• If so desired, the committee may appoint interim co-chairs in the
meantime by electronic vote, and hold a winter meeting. If you’d like to
nominate someone (including yourself), please contact us!

• Whether or not new co-chairs are appointed, the committee should still be
an email resource for the NCO on communications-related issues as they
arise.

• We are soliciting volunteers for point people for the following
activities between now and March:

·                 Someone to serve on the LTER ASM 2018 planning committee,
which is just gearing up

·                 Someone to serve as point person for the LTER stories
project, if needed before Spring 2018 by Peter Groffman. Jonathan Walsh was
the point person identified, with Clarisse, in the May ’17 meeting; the
action item was to review the stories already submitted and establish a
consistent set of content tags, and then, once the BioScience paper comes
out (not sure about timeline there), to begin to organize stories into
quarterly media pitches or LTER News stories based on topical news hooks
(e.g. hurricane season). I (Clarisse) am happy to jump back into this in
the spring.

·                 Note regarding the mini-symposium: Marty and NSF Public
Affairs work very closely on this and it doesn’t seem there is a lot of
desire at NSF for public or congressional outreach. However, if there is a
volunteer from this committee interested in working very closely with Marty
and Cheryl to strengthen presentations, organize a related display (in
NSF's new building), or build audience in other federal science agencies,
Marty says she’d welcome that.

·                 Note about the NCO’s Community of Practice monthly call
idea: this has been tabled for the spring, unless someone would like to
take it on in the meantime, in which case Marty would provide Zoom support
and internal publicity!

We welcome your thoughts.

And, this is ages away, but let’s go ahead and schedule our call for March!
All times are 2pm Eastern.

https://doodle.com/poll/ckrbaqg8r68t63sz

Thank you,

Clarisse & Julie

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Clarisse Hart

Outreach & Development Manager

for Education & Research Programs

Harvard Forest

Harvard University

324 North Main Street

Petersham, MA 01366

(978) 756-6157 phone

(978) 724-3595 fax

On the web:

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu

http://www.facebook.com/theharvardforest

http://www.twitter.com/harvardforest

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Newspapers and More

Scientific American and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science are
offering a five-part webinar series, starting tomorrow and continuing
through the next 5 Fridays.

They will have some of the best speakers in the field, including, Alan
Alda, Mariette DiChristina, Editor in chief of Scientific American, Ben
Lillie, Founder of the Story Colider, Claudia Dreifus and Matt Nisbet.

It's a great learning opportunity for a fairly modest investment of time.

https://www.aldacenter.org/aklc/build-skills/online-courses/aldablogging2017?sf120772320=1
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