Outreach

Public outreach in climate science

  • Scientific American

    2020
  • Multiple NPR Interviews During Climate Week

    2019
  • Southern California Green Teams

    2019
  • North American Carbon World

    2019
  • Do - Fest

    2018
  • Climate Justice Forum, Environmentalists of Color Collective

    2018
  • Summary newsletter of recent federal actions relating to climate and the environment

    2017
  • Climate Change Public Service Announcement, Jimmy Kimmel Live

    2016

    Two million views live and 940,000+ views on YouTube. Responded to academics and media outlets on subject

  • Developed an annual Oceanography Student Film Festival as part of a course to non-geoscience students that I teach.

    2011 - Present

    Students have to submit science communication projects. Winning videos are online and are circulated to K-12 science educators through my class youtube channel. One student video has over 21,000 hits!

  • Women in Philanthrophy at UCLA, Challenges in climate science and higher education in a changing landscape

    2016
  • Bruin Family Weekend- Hidden in Rock, Frozen in Time: Understanding Extreme Climate Change

    2016
  • UCLA Luskin Symposium: Earth Now, Earth 2050

    2016
  • Zocalo/UCLA event: Panelist discussing if fracking is good for California at event moderated by LA Times journalist

    2015
  • Speaker – Know Tomorrow UCLA student event on climate change

    2015
  • Interviewed by Xinhua News Agency on climate change

    2012-2013
  • Women in Philanthropy at UCLA: Panelist on Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles

    2014
  • Answered questions pertaining to climate change and ocean acidification on >20 occasions as service, including for Union of Concerned Scientists

    2011 - Present

    Wrote technical comment on ocean acidification for NOAA and Center for Biological Diversity

  • Participant in Communicating Science in a Challenging Media Environment – Union of Concerned Scientists

    2011
  • Participant in Alan Alda workshop on Communicating Science – Kavli Foundation

    2011
  • Developed concept map to communicate how geological data are used to study climate processes and national climate literacy principles to high school students as a faculty participant in COSEE workshop

    2011

    Taught group of four graduate student participants how to do the same

  • Interviewed by Fiji TV for US State Dept.-supported documentary on climate change

    2011
  • Cambridge Science Festival lecture on paleoclimate to the public

    2011
  • Interviewed by New Scientist on research and climate change issues

    2010
  • Comenius lectures - to business people on climate change

    2006-2009
  • Interviewed by Time Magazine on research and climate change issues

    2009
  • Interviewed by Scientific American on research and climate change issues

    2009
  • Interviewed by BBC on research and climate change issues

    2009
  • Interviewed by Columbian National Public Radio on research and climate change issues

    2009
  • Advised BBC Program Blue Peter for episode “Green Peter” on climate change

    2007

K-12 outreach

  • Women in STEAM

  • Work with high school students and teachers on research projects

  • Hosted K-12 students from schools in Los Angeles and Riverside County in laboratory tours

  • Hosted students from Project Scientist, non-profit dedicated to girls in STEM

  • Organized hands-on science experiments at two family shelters

  • Science fair judge for American Geological Institute at Intel Science Fair

  • Faculty participant, “Geoscience fundamentals in the Field” – Three week course for middle and high school science teachers

  • Developed lesson plan for secondary school students on “Fossils and climate change” focused on understanding the climate history of Antarctica and Nebraska for the past 160 million

Other outreach activities

  • Futures CoLab, Disrupting systems for global sustainability

    2019
  • Community awards and hires of opportunity nominating committee for people from marginalized groups

    2018-2019
  • Panelist, Diversity at Environmental Organizations, North American Carbon World Conference

    2019
  • Organized workshops and given talks on applying for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships

    2011 - present
  • Designed multiple exhibits and presented them with members of research group for UCLA’s Annual Physical Sciences Outreach Day

    2011 - present
  • Awards judge at L.A. Basin Earth and Planetary Student Research Symposium

    2014, 2011
  • Worked with foster students and students in shelters through Haven House

    2012
  • Co-developed first university Mindshare public outreach event for the Division of Physical Sciences at UCLA with Douglas Campbell, the co-founder of Mindshare.

    2012

    This was a geoscience cafe (think TedX meets art festival) that featured a series of talks by departmental faculty and exhibits by members of our department, as well as art installations. 200-300 people attended the event, and several thousand people watched the event online

  • Science fair judge for American Geological Institute at Intel Science Fair

    2011
  • Gave seminar at workshop on academic research and applying to graduate school to undergraduates in ACCESS program at Loyola Marymount University

    2010
  • Grant and proposal writing workshop - Association of Black Women in Higher Education

    2009
  • Research on new isotopic technique featured on Discovery Channel website

    2009
  • I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here! Participant

    2008

    We won third place!

  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ‘NOISE – New Outlooks in Science and Engineering’ role model and MentorSET participant

    2004-2008
  • Royal Society of Chemistry: What Chemistry has done for me

    2007
  • Interviewed by Cambridge Evening News

    2004, 2006
  • Interviewed by Spectrum and Mint

    2004