Trainings

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2013 Vega Fellows in Communication and Leadership Monday, April 22, 2013 to Friday, April 26, 2013 COMPASS coordinated and conducted a five-day communication and leadership training in Sweden for the second cohort of Vega Fellows – a prestigious new program and network of Scandinavian environmental scientists. 20 participants from seven universities and organizations across Scandinavia were hand-selected by organizers Daniel Conley and Johanna Stadmark of Lund University for the opportunity to participate. Through the...
Switzer Foundation 2012 Fellows Saturday, September 15, 2012 to Saturday, October 6, 2012 COMPASS' Science Outreach Specialist, Meghan Miner and Assistant Director of Science Policy Outreach, Erica Goldman, recently facilitated a training for the 2012 East Coast-based Switzer Fellows, Switzer Leadership Grantees, and select alumni...
Leopold Leadership Fellows 2012 Reunion Tuesday, June 19, 2012 The Leopold Leadership Program, a prestigious fellowship that provides already oustanding academic researchers with additional skills to translate their knowledge into action and to catalyze change, held their 2012 all-cohorts reunion this week. COMPASS has been involved with the program - coordinating and delivering its core communcations offerings - since its inception in 1999, and we were very excited to be involved in...
Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe) Tuesday, May 22, 2012 to Friday, May 25, 2012 Communications Director Nancy Baron with the help of Science Outreach Specialist Meghan Miner recently headed to St. Andrews, New Brunswick to deliver a communications and leadership training to 20 CHONe (...
University of British Columbia Friday, February 4, 2011 Communications Director Nancy Baron led a full-day science communications workshop for scientists in the Center for Applied Conservation Research and Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. The workshop in Vancouver was organized by UBC scientist Peter Arcese for 25 scientists. The training was preceded by an evening public lecture on the Risks and Rewards of...
AAAS Policy Forum Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Communications Director Nancy Baron led a half-day science communications and policy workshop for 100+ AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows at AAAS headquarters in Washington, DC. The workshop, organized with help from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute scientist Scott Doney, guided participants through interactive exercises that helped them to better communicate...

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2013 Vega Fellows in Communication and Leadership

Monday, April 22, 2013 to Friday, April 26, 2013

COMPASS coordinated and conducted a five-day communication and leadership training in Sweden for the second cohort of Vega Fellows – a prestigious new program and network of Scandinavian environmental scientists. 20 participants from seven universities and organizations across Scandinavia were hand-selected by organizers Daniel Conley and Johanna Stadmark of Lund University for the opportunity to participate.

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Switzer Foundation 2012 Fellows

Saturday, September 15, 2012 to Saturday, October 6, 2012

COMPASS' Science Outreach Specialist, Meghan Miner and Assistant Director of Science Policy Outreach, Erica Goldman, recently facilitated a training for the 2012 East Coast-based Switzer Fellows, Switzer Leadership Grantees, and select alumni...

Leopold Leadership Fellows 2012 Reunion

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The Leopold Leadership Program, a prestigious fellowship that provides already oustanding academic researchers with additional skills to translate their knowledge into action and to catalyze change, held their 2012 all-cohorts reunion this week. COMPASS has been involved with the program - coordinating and delivering its core communcations offerings - since its inception in 1999, and we were very excited to be involved in...

Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe)

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 to Friday, May 25, 2012

Communications Director Nancy Baron with the help of Science Outreach Specialist Meghan Miner recently headed to St. Andrews, New Brunswick to deliver a communications and leadership training to 20 CHONe (...

University of British Columbia

Friday, February 4, 2011

Communications Director Nancy Baron led a full-day science communications workshop for scientists in the Center for Applied Conservation Research and Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. The workshop in Vancouver was organized by UBC scientist Peter Arcese for 25 scientists. The training was preceded by an evening public lecture on the Risks and Rewards of...

AAAS Policy Forum

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Communications Director Nancy Baron led a half-day science communications and policy workshop for 100+ AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows at AAAS headquarters in Washington, DC. The workshop, organized with help from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute scientist Scott Doney, guided participants through interactive exercises that helped them to better communicate...