A long time ago, when I walked into the Ministry of Education building in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) to inquire about offering an earthquake education workshop in a public school, I had no research agenda, let alone thinking about publishing it one day. All I wanted was to do something useful: sharing earthquake science with school children. Recognizing the value of geoscience communication, my graduate school advisor was on board, but she also asked me to be methodical and rigorous, just as I would be with scientific research. This felt like a daunting task as neither I nor my advisor had any formal training in geoscience education research. To do this, we had to tear down academic silos, make friends with social scientists and leaf through many papers we normally wouldn’t. But asking for help and getting help from the right people ultimately put us on the right path to carrying out and publishing our geoscience communication research.
Helping you publish your geoscience communication work is exactly what the Geoscience Communication (GC) editors are planning to do at the EGU25 General Assembly. They have organized a drop-in ‘clinic’ where you can bring all your ideas and questions. No question is too basic and it doesn’t matter how well developed (or not) your idea is. They are there to help you think through it and make it publishable. Alternatively, if you’re already doing excellent geoscience communication work but not publishing, let the GC editors convince you that publishing your work is worth it.
So what happens at the drop-in clinic during EGU25?
During the drop-in clinic, GC editors will take you through the following course structure:
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- Introduction (hybrid): This will be a brief tour of a recent editorial in GC on how to make your Geoscience Communication work publishable. A general Q&A will follow.
- Drop-in clinic (on site only): This is a small group discussion. There will be a table/zone per discussion theme (e.g., GC research basics, ethics, statistics and methods for GC). There will be an editor per table. You can choose your table and ask your questions.
Interested in dropping by the publication clinic?
This session is open to all EGU25 conference attendees including those attending virtually. The GC editors look forward to meeting you on Tuesday, April 29, 08:30-10:15 CEST online (Zoom link will appear on the conference website) or in-person in room -2.62 at the Austria Center Vienna.
To add this session to your personal program, click HERE!
You may also view/download the session materials ahead of time using the above link. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to get in touch with the session conveners.
Interested but cannot drop by?
GC editors are a friendly bunch so don’t hesitate to contact them if you have any questions. Please use the following email address: gc-executive-editors@mailinglists.copernicus.org and one of the executive editors will get in touch with you quickly.
Here are two papers you might want to check out if you’re interested in publishing your geoscience communication work with GC:
Geoscience Communication – Building bridges, not walls (Illingworth et al., 2018)
Geoscience Communication – Planning to make it publishable (Hillier et al., 2021)
