Explore a unique scientific communication challenge in this 70-minute conference talk from AGU's Fall Meeting 2020. Watch as speakers present complex scientific concepts using only the 1000 most common English words, inspired by XKCD's Up-Goer Five comic. Discover how simplifying language can reveal the core of scientific work, make it accessible to wider audiences, and inject humor into technical topics. Topics covered include atmospheric studies, ecology in arid regions, climate change impacts on forests, volcano monitoring, space exploration, aerosol interactions, solar physics, wildfire effects, astrobiology, ancient atmospheric composition, coastal protection, gender equality in oceanography, and plant-atmosphere interactions.
Overview
Syllabus
Alexa Jean Halford - Tiny flying box? A study of upper sky things very close and very far away from each other.
Pryanka Kushwaha – Differences in number of tiny living things under trees and open spaces in dry land.
Shane Coffield – How warmer times and different rain will change where our state’s tress can live.
Robby T Goldman – Making it easier to keep people safe when hot tall rock things burst.
Jon Vandergriff – Finding space places that are different from other space places using computers that sense numbers and make good guesses.
Kristina Pistone – What happens when you have smoke bits and water in the sky at the same time?
Laurel Rachmeler – Using sun-looking-space-boxes to know what happens today and tomorrow on the sun.
Carl A Norlen – Drier times kill tress. How do fires change that?
Delores J Knipp – Sending tiny life forms to space.
Catherine McCammon – What can really old red and white rocks tell us about breathing air on our world a long time ago?
Stuart Pearson – Keeping our feet dry and safe from the big water by using lots of very tiny rocks.
Linda Stathoplos – Have things gotten better for women working on the big blue water?
Mj Riches – How the breath of leaves changes the air we breathe.
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