{"id":4393,"date":"2013-05-22T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2013-05-28T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:03:15","slug":"biographies-for-the-reachingoutsci-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/2013\/05\/22\/biographies-for-the-reachingoutsci-series","title":{"rendered":"Biographies for the #reachingoutsci series"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>The following authors have each contributed to the #reachingoutsci\u00a0three-part series:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Bridging the Science-to-Society Gap: Part 1 \" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/2013\/05\/22\/bridging-the-science-to-society-gap-part-1-reachingoutsci\" target=\"_blank\">Bridging the Science-to-Society Gap: Part 1\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"The Twenty-fifth Hour of the Day: Finding Time for Outreach: Part 2 #reachingoutsci\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/2013\/05\/23\/the-twenty-fifth-hour-of-the-day-finding-time-for-outreach-part-2-reachingoutsci\" target=\"_blank\">The Twenty-fifth Hour of the Day: Finding Time for Outreach: Part 2<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Unclogging institutional conduits between research and outreach: Part 3 #reachingoutsci\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/2013\/05\/24\/unclogging-institutional-conduits-between-research-and-outreach-part-3-reachingoutsci\" target=\"_blank\">Unclogging institutional conduits between research and outreach: Part 3\u00a0<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Organizers\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10395\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/EBennett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10395\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10395\" alt=\"EBennett\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/EBennett-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Bennett<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Elena Bennett<\/strong> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the McGill School of Environment at McGill University. She is trained as an ecosystem and landscape ecologist, and she now works with local communities in the Montreal area bringing the science of ecosystem services to bear on land use and land management decisions. She is now hard at work developing a training program in outreach and communication for McGill professors working in environment-related fields. Find her on twitter <a title=\"@ElenaBennett \" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElenaBennett\" target=\"_blank\">@ElenaBennett <\/a>and learn more about her research at <a title=\"https:\/\/bennettlab.weebly.com\" href=\"https:\/\/bennettlab.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bennettlab.weebly.com<!--more--><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10394\" style=\"width: 138px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dawn_twitpic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10394\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10394\" alt=\"dawn_twitpic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dawn_twitpic1.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Wright<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As Chief Scientist of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/\">\u202aEnvironmental Systems Research Institute (Esri)<\/a>, the world&#8217;s leading geographic information system software, research and development company, <strong>Dawn Wright<\/strong> aids in formulating and advancing the intellectual agenda for the environmental, conservation, climate, and ocean sciences aspect of Esri&#8217;s work, while also representing Esri to the national\/international scientific community. She maintains an affiliated faculty appointment as Professor of Geography and Oceanography in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ceoas.oregonstate.edu\/\">\u202aCollege of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences<\/a> at Oregon State University. Dawn&#8217;s research interests include seafloor mapping and tectonics, ocean conservation, environmental informatics, and ethics in information technology. She is also currently into road cycling, orange-flavored gummy bears, pirates, her dog <a href=\"https:\/\/dusk.geo.orst.edu\/sally\">\u202aSally<\/a>, and SpongeBob Squarepants. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deepseadawn\">\u202a@deepseadawn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10397\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gerber_2103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10397\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10397 \" alt=\"Gerber_2103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gerber_2103-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leah R. Gerber<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Leah R. Gerber<\/b> is a Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Science in the School of Life Sciences and a Senior Sustainability Scientist in the School of Sustainability in the at <a title=\"https:\/\/gerberlab.faculty.asu.edu\" href=\"https:\/\/gerberlab.faculty.asu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona State Universit<\/a>y.\u00a0 Gerber is a broadly trained population ecologist and marine conservation biologist who is committed to both a strong empirically-based marine research program and to connecting science to policies for sustaining the health of the world\u2019s oceans. She has published broadly on life history, dispersal, monitoring, adaptive management, animal behavior, and ecosystem-based management, and has published over 90 papers in high-quality scientific journals.\u00a0 Importantly, the impact of her work extends beyond scientific impact factors \u2013 Gerber is most proud of research that has been used in policy decisions and has stimulated public discourse in popular media. You can find her website <a title=\"Gerberlab.faculty\" href=\"https:\/\/gerberlab.faculty.asu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>and she is <a title=\"@LeahLeopold \" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeahLeopold\" target=\"_blank\">@LeahLeopold\u00a0<\/a>on Twitter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10391\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hadly-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10391\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10391\" alt=\"Hadly 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hadly-2012-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth A. Hadly<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Elizabeth A. Hadly<\/b>\u00a0is the Paul S. and Billie Achilles Chair of Environmental Biology and the Senior Associate Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. \u00a0She studies and teaches about environmental change in fossil mammals, amphibians, and birds to reveal the ways in which current human impacts affect evolutionary and ecological systems, using natural experiments of Earth\u2019s past to help predict how the biosphere will change in the future.\u00a0\u00a0Professor Hadly\u2019s research has\u00a0taken\u00a0her to Yellowstone National Park, the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, the jungles and savannahs of Africa, and the rain forests of Costa Rica. \u00a0 Further information is available on her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/hadlylab\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0at <a title=\"@LizHadly\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LizHadly\" target=\"_blank\">@LizHadly<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10392\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hellmann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10392\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10392\" alt=\"hellmann\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hellmann-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Hellmann<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jessica Hellmann<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Lead of the Climate Change Adaptation Program at the Environmental Change Initiative at the University of Notre Dame. She studies the sensitivity of species and communities to climatic and other global changes and is a leading thinker about human responses to climate change, through the Collaboratory for Adaptation to Climate Change. In addition to basic research, she participates in national and urban climate assessments and adaptation planning. For more info, see <a title=\"The Hellmann Lab\" href=\"https:\/\/www3.nd.edu\/~hellmann\/Hellmann_Lab\/Hellmann_Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"@jessicahellmann \" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaHellmann\" target=\"_blank\">@jessicahellmann<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10393\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jahren2012headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10393\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393\" alt=\"Jahren2012headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jahren2012headshot-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hope Jahren<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Hope Jahren<\/strong> is a Professor of Geobiology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, working on the history of photosynthesis on Planet Earth.\u00a0 She is currently working on textbook with Yale University Press entitled, \u201cLife On Land\u201d meant to better integrate biology into the standard geology curriculum. You can find her website <a title=\"Jahrenlab\" href=\"https:\/\/jahrenlab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and she&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"@HopeJahren\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HopeJahren\" target=\"_blank\">@HopeJahren<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Contributors\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10389\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Barnosky-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10389\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10389 \" alt=\"Barnosky 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/spoton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Barnosky-2012-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony D. Barnosky<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since\u00a01990,<strong>\u00a0Anthony D. Barnosky\u00a0<\/strong>has been on\u00a0the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently holds\u00a0the posts of Professor of Integrative Biology, Curator of Fossil Mammals in the\u00a0Museum of Paleontology, and Research\u00a0Paleoecologist in the Museum of Vertebrate\u00a0Zoology. \u00a0His research focuses on how\u00a0past\u00a0species reacted to major\u00a0environmental changes and what that tells us about the\u00a0changes to come in our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridging the Science-to-Society Gap: Part 1\u00a0&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/2013\/05\/22\/biographies-for-the-reachingoutsci-series#more-4393\" class=\"more-link\"> &hellip; Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/2013\/05\/22\/biographies-for-the-reachingoutsci-series\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-communication-and-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}