Global Change Through Time

Objective 5. Outreach

This objective aims to make key research findings accessible and meaningful to other science providers (those dealing with biodiversity, environments, climate change, global processes, hazards, energy),  educators, science communicators, Government policy makers (environment, energy, agriculture, fisheries), the general public, and Mâori. This outreach utilises the internet, press releases, public presentations, science festivals, resource materials for educators, and field tours. These outreach initiatives are based on the premise that informed policy makers need an informed public in order to maximise environmental benefits for society.

For more information contact James Crampton (programme leader)

Outreach Highlights:

• Development of a teaching module for secondary schools on the applications of fossil foraminifera to the reconstruction of environmental history. This work has employed a Royal Society Teaching Fellow, Jane Smith from Wairoa College.
• Fatal Impact: The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Download 12
• Fossil guides to past climate have an artistic side. Media release
• Unlocking the ice house - Antarctica and its role in climate change.
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