As a Jefferson Science Fellow, Alice Bean worked with the Office of Religion & Global Affairs at the US Department of State in 2014 – 2015 on climate change and environmental issues. The office works to implement the National Strategy on Religious Leader and Faith Community Engagement which includes building partnerships on environmental issues. With the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties meeting in December in Paris, there were and continue to be great opportunities for physicists to interact with policy makers and the general public. As an experimental particle physicist, much was learned about climate change science, how the public views scientists, how science can influence policy, but most especially how to communicate about science.
Dr. Bean will present at a colloquium, February 11th, at 3:45 pm, 101 Richards Undergraduate Physics Laboratory, on the FSU Campus