Posts by: Sarah Sunu

Dr. Allison Coffin is an assistant professor at Washington State University (WSU) Vancouver, where her lab researches sensory hair cell function and hearing preservation/loss through studying fish. COMPASS first met Allison in October 2015, when Nancy Baron, our Director of Science Outreach, led a two-day communication workshop for the WSU Center for Environmental ...

The Vega Fellowship started in 2011, after Dr. Daniel Conley, Lund University professor of biogeochemistry in Sweden, decided to find a way to bring more science communication training to his part of the world. Daniel collaborated with Nancy Baron to build a network of researchers with the skills and knowledge to share their science to improve conditions in the Bal...

Dr. Diana H. Wall is a soil ecologist and environmental scientist, and is the Founding Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) at Colorado State University (CSU). Diana’s passion for soil ecology and nematodes has taken her all over the world, including over twenty-five trips to Antarctica. Diana’s work and career was profiled in N...

Scientists from around the world gather to share their research and insight into ocean science and conservation at the International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC). COMPASS teamed up with Dr. Stephanie Green (Center for Ocean Solutions) and Dr. Kirsten Grorud-Colvert (Oregon State University) to hold storytelling workshops at past IMCCs, which provided partici...

Dr. Daniel Swain is a climate scientist and author of Weather West, a blog where he shares information and insights into weather and climate patterns in the western U.S., with a particular focus on California. Daniel started Weather West in 2006, and now it reaches over a million readers a year. We worked with Daniel when he was a 2015 Switzer Fellow, and are excit...