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> ------ Forwarded Message > From: Discovery Learning Research Center <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:16:49 -0400 > Subject: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Science Education > > The George Mason University, Center for Climate Change Communication > (http://climate.gmu.edu/) invites applications for a full-time > Postdoctoral Research Fellow to support a National Science > Foundation ( > NSF)-funded planning grant titled, Making the Global Local: Unusual > Weather Events as Climate Change Education Opportunities. > The goal of this project is to establish a national network of climate > and weather science organizations, and university research and > teaching > programs, to engage, train and empower local broadcast > meteorologists to > educate and inform the American public about climate change. The > project > will integrate informal learning, mass communication and experiential > learning theories to develop and test new pedagogical approaches to > informal science education through frequent mass media exposure, > linked > to real-world experience (i.e., the local weather). It will also adapt > and test conflict resolution theory and practice to engage > meteorologists, who reject the scientific consensus, and climate > scientists in constructive dialogue. Collaborating institutions > include > the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, American > Meteorological Society, National Weather Association, American > Association of State Climatologists, American Geophysical Union, > Climate > Central, National Environmental Education Foundation, and Yale and > Cornell universities. > The specific objectives of this planning grant are to: (1) identify > the > resources, training and other forms of support that will enable > weathercasters to incorporate relevant information about climate > change > into their broadcasts; (2) identify why some weathercasters remain > undecided about anthropogenic climate change, and develop related > curriculum and programs about climate science for them; (3) develop a > prototype conflict analysis and resolution process between > weathercasters who reject the scientific consensus and those who > accept > it so as to understand their differences, their patterns of > interaction, > and develop frameworks to help mediate their concerns; (4) develop > linkages with existing climate- and weather-related citizen science > programs to enable weathercasters to involve their viewers in climate > and weather science; and (5) identify curriculum and curriculum > development needs for teaching climate science to undergraduate > meteorology students and certificate candidates. The end product of > this > planning grant will be a five-year implementation plan that shall be > submitted to NSF for funding consideration. > Candidates must have a Ph.D. in a relevant social or learning science > discipline; and a track record of published journal articles and/or > conference papers on relevant topics of inquiry including climate > change > communication, science communication and/or formal or informal science > education. Experience in survey research, qualitative data collection, > strategic (program) planning, professional development and climate > science is preferred. Additional skills required include competence in > planning and multitasking, attention to detail, excellent > organizational > skills, ability to communicate verbally and in writing, and the > ability > to adapt to the changing demands of a dynamic research environment. > http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/ > > > - Cianán > > > ---------------------------- > Cianán B. Russell, Ph.D. > Center for Workshops in the Chemical Sciences (CWCS) Program Associate > http://chemistry.gsu.edu/CWCS/ > > Georgia Institute of Technology > School of Chemistry and Biochemistry > 901 Atlantic Drive > Atlanta, GA 30332-0400 > Email: [log in to unmask] > Phone: (404) 385-8166 > ---------------------------- > > ------ End of Forwarded Message