By: Caroline Nickerson, AEC Ph.D. Student Gainesville, FL – The Streaming Science project, a program associated with the University of Florida, is excited to announce ClimateCast Live, a groundbreaking series of digital field experiences ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Events, UF/IFAS Extension
Here's another oldie-but-goodie pulled from pages as IFAS migrates blogs. These are some of the public engagement with science (aka science outreach or informal science education or science communication) resources I have found in my day. Public ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
So my IFAS blog is moving ... sort of. I have several pages I've created over the last few years that I'm re-posting now as actual blog posts. This post covers agritourism-related resources for Extension agents, producers, and other educators ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources
University of Florida agricultural education and communication graduate students connected students in pre-K through high school and their families with university water scientists in Facebook Live events held during the spring semester. Earlier ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Teaching, Water
My work aims to improve public engagement with science. To me, that means I am trying to bring scientists together with stakeholders so that together, they can combine their expertises and concerns to address problems on which science can have ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Work & Life
So I just ran my second paid online survey through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Despite my internet searches of how to do this right and treat participants fairly (there is discussion about whether these are "workers" or research participants and ... READ MORE
Category: Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
Well, it depends. $58 million is what NASA estimates a trip around the moon as a SpaceX tourist would cost. For most people, it's out of reach compared to our median U.S. incomes of $59 thousand in 2017, or about 1000 times less than the cost ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Curriculum, Natural Resources, Professional Development
My sister brought Seth Godin's blog to my attention a few months ago. He writes about, among other things, "changing everything." Though at first glance it is not related to my work as it is really about business and marketing primarily, I have ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & LifeI took on an #extension fellowship in 2015 on citizen science, to promote its use throughout #coopext. This continues to pay dividends, as I am now in the process of taking on my first PhD student advisee, who wants to study citizen science! ... READ MORE
Category: Community Volunteers, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension