Figuring out new and creative ways to communicate the reality of climate change remains one of the great challenges facing policy-makers, scientists, and advocates.Ìý This event brings together two artists with expertise in creating powerful images and visuals about climate science with a veteran science writer and editor to discuss how art can communicate directly and emotionally, and can engage the public, in ways that move beyond the scientific findings and data.

Join the McGillicuddy Humanities Center on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. to explore this topic further.Ìý Email mhc@maine.edu to join, or register at: .

²Ñ´Ç»å±ð°ù²¹³Ù´Ç°ùÌýLaura Helmuth, Ph.D. is Editor-in-Chief ofÌýScientific American.ÌýShe is a science journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering all fields of health, science, technology, and the environment. Prior to joiningÌýScientific American,Ìýshe was the Science and Health Editor forÌýThe Washington PostÌýand has held positions atÌýNational Geographic,ÌýSlate,ÌýSmithsonian, andÌýScience. Helmuth was the President of the National Association of Science Writers from 2016 to 2018 and board member from 2012 to 2016.

±Ê²¹²Ô±ð±ô¾±²õ³ÙÌýJill PeltoÌýis aÌýclimateÌýscientist and artist based in Westbrook, Maine.ÌýHer work focuses on communicating human-environment connections. By incorporating scientific research and data into watercolor paintings, she weaves visual narratives that reveal the benefits and costs of human impacts on this planet.ÌýShe’s conductedÌýfield research around the world, including the mountain glaciers of Washington and the Transantarctic Mountains. She recently created a custom data-artÌýpainting for the cover of TIME Magazine in July 2020. Her biography and a gallery of her work can be found atÌý.

Panelist Deirdre MurphyÌýdecodes the interconnected patterns that exist inÌýartÌýand science through the lens of biological patterns and data visualization. Her research has led to artist residencies at Integral Molecular Biotech and Winterthur Museum. Her paintings, prints and public art have exhibited at the Philadelphia International Airport, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Zillman Art Museum, Biggs Museum of American Art, New Bedford Art Museum, and Tacoma Art Museum. Her biography and a gallery of her work can be found atÌý.

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This event, part of the MHC’s 2020-2021 Symposium on “The Story of Climate Change”ÌýbringsÌýtogetherÌýpeopleÌýfromÌýdifferentÌýprofessionalÌýfieldsÌýtaskedÌýwith communicatingÌýthe impact of climate change to the public. The panel (which will be remote, ) features a veteran reporter, scientists working with Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW), and is moderated by Dr. Katherine Glover from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute.Ìý Panelists will discuss best practices for telling the story of climate change, and for helping theÌýpublicÌýunderstand environmental transformation on both a local and global scale.

Panelists:

is a veteran Bangor Daily News reporter who writes about how the Atlantic Ocean and the state’s iconic coastline help to shape the lives of coastal Maine residents and visitors.ÌýÌýBased , he writes about fisheries, marine-related topics, and covers eastern coastal Maine communities.

Dr. Amanda Cross is a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and a member of .ÌýÌýShe studies, teaches, and conducts public outreach about vernal pool ecology across Maine.

is aÌýMoose Biologist for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.ÌýÌýIn 2019, Kantar was awardedÌýat the 53rd North American Moose Conference held in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.

Moderator

is a Research Associate at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. Specializing in how interactions between hydroclimate, vegetation, and wildfire produce landscape change, and the sustainableÌýÌýmanagement of public lands, Dr. Glover will be teaching WGS 301/501: Women and Climate Change, in the spring, 2021 semester.

The panel will run 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and it will be recorded.
Join via Zoom at:Ìý

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