Young Environmental Scholars (YES) Annual Conference
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Young Environmental Scholars (YES) Annual Conference
The Young Environmental Scholars Conference brings together environmental researchers from all seven schools at Stanford for innovative dialogue and productive collaboration regarding environmental science, policy, and behavior research. The conference exposes Master’s and early-stage doctoral students to different approaches to environmental research and engages late-stage doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars in discussion about how personal and academic world-views influence research questions and design. The conference also provides students and postdoctoral scholars an opportunity to present their research in a novel interdisciplinary space.
YOUNG ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOLARS CONFERENCE
December 2, 2015
Fisher Conference Center at the
Frances C. Arillaga Alumni Center
- Keynote Speaker: Jim Leape, Cox Consulting Professor
- Workshops
- Research Presentations
- Poster Session
- Presentation/Poster Prizes
- Lunch + Happy Hour/Networking
We encourage researchers from all disciplines examining aspects of the environment and related opportunities and challenges to participate. Come to learn, gain new perspectives, and network with your fellow Stanford PhD/graduate students and postdoctoral colleagues. Space is limited on first come/first serve basis. Register or sign up to present here.
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday October 22, 2015
(abstract limit = 200 words)
Registration Deadline: Thursday, November 19, 2015
The 2015 Young Environmental Scholars Conference Organizers are:
- Anna Lee, PhD student, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (EIPER): aslee07@stanford.edu
- Carly Sponarski, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Graduate School of Education: carlycs@stanford.edu
Feel free to contact the organizers with questions regarding your talk or poster and the event.
CONFERENCE AGENDA
8:30 - 9:00 am Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 am Welcome & Workshops
Jeff Koseff, Co-Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Harnessing the Power of Stories: Incorporating storytelling techniques into communication of your academic work - Stanford’s Storytelling Project
The Storytelling Project will be limited to 30 people. The Storytelling Project have asked participants to please prepare a one sentence description of your research. And listen to the following: "Keep it in the Ground“ Part 1 of "The Biggest Story in the World," a behind the scene look at the British newspaper The Guardian’s effort to find a new way to report on climate change. "Keep it in the Ground“ is 16 minutes and it shows journalists struggling to communicate the science and implications of global warming to their audience in a meaningful way. When you listen to it, pay attention to the strategies the journalists use to convey their quests.