Overview
The workshop goals require that we work together, across disciplines to develop climate communication strategies likely to promote beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors that can hasten our efforts to curb climate change. To accomplish this we have mostly divided the agenda into three parts:
- Hearing from experts in each of the major research domains (discussed on this page) to help orient us to the major issues and principles in those domains, and share some of their own research. This will inform participants with information needed for the second part:
- Working in manageable groups of perhaps 5 or 6 people, representing a wide and complementary range of disciplines, to develop a viable plan communication plan.
- Developing a Google Site (web site) that represents the plan in the best way possible.
This is an ambitious, but we hope exciting, program to invent innovative and effective strategies for curbing climate change. For those who arrive early and wish to attend, dinner will be offered on Monday night at 6pm. (This may change depending on information gathered between now and then.) Tuesday and Thursday evenings transportation to a nearby areas for dinner will be offered. Wednesday evening we will remain on campus for dinner and some innovative media presentations.
Some parts of this program are still being tweaked, but basically, this is the program in chart form:
| Monday 13 | Tuesday 14 | Wednesday 15 | Thursday 16 | Friday 17 | |
| 8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | Continental Breakfast | Continental Breakfast | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM | Remarks: Workshop overview, challenges, and first principles, CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS | Speaker: Psychology of climate-related behaviors, AARON DESLATTE | Speaker: Story and rhetoric, JENNIFER MAHER | Workgroups (45 minutes) |
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| 10:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | |
| 10:05 AM | Speaker: Politics and policy PAUL PINSKY |
Speaker: Anthropolist’s view of sciencist/ policymaker roles: JESSICA O’REILLY | Workgroups | (1:15??) Workgroup Presentations | |
| 11:00 AM | Break | Break | Break | Break | |
| 11:05 AM | Speaker: Climate impact, VICTORIA COLES | Workgroups | Workgroups | Discussion (about the workshop and next steps) | |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | Speaker: Climate science visualization, MARK SUBBARAO | Speaker Media, DAVID PARK |
Workgroups | Adjourn | |
| 2:00 PM | Workgroups | Workgroups | Workgroups | ||
| 3:00 PM | Break | Break | Break | ||
| 3:10 PM | Workgroups | Workgroups | Workgroups | ||
| 4:00 PM | Share and discuss the day’s work. | Share and discuss the day’s work. | Share and discuss the day’s work. | ||
| 4:30 PM | Voluntary lightning talks | Voluntary lightning talks | Voluntary lightning talks | ||
| 5:00 PM | Meet & Greet for those who arrive early enough on Monday | Adjourn | Adjourn | Adjourn | |
| Evening | Dinner | Busses to Baltimore for dinner | Dinner on-campus, media presentations | Buses to Ellicott City for dinner |