Geoscience Communication – Out There Learning

Getting Started with Science Communication

Getting Started with Science Communication If you are wanting to get started with science communication you can think of it as a three step process. The first step involves weighing up your various choices about who you want to reach, the topic you want to focus on and the ways you hope to communicate about […]

How should you best communicate your geoscience research?

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How should you best communicate your geoscience research? This article is based on a presentation I gave to the 2020 conference of the Geosciences Society of New Zealand. It is aimed at researchers and aspiring science communicators. I have been a full time geoscience educator for 14 years, working for GNS Science, New Zealand’s government

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Welcome to my site

Hi I’m Julian Thomson and I am involved in science communication and education in ways that link geoscientists with teachers and students, mostly in New Zealand, but also in Asia. This includes consultancy with school faculties and individual teachers around their earth science, ecology or outdoor programmes, running geoscience workshops and field trips, creating school learning resources, making educational videos and authoring web pages.

In my work I love to highlight the wonders of the natural world and ways that we can explore, become fascinated and never lose the sense of awe. I am also very interested in ways we can best safeguard ourselves from Natural Hazards which are a continual issue in New Zealand, sitting across a collision plate boundary as we do.