Posts in: Leadership in Action

Sara Nawaz is an environmental social scientist who studies the social dimensions of technologies and policies aimed at using the oceans to suck up CO2, an approach that researchers call marine-based carbon dioxide removal, or mCDR for short. In this interview with COMPASS’s Nicolle Etchart, why she's excited to work in this field and offers some insights on what scientists should consider when thinking about how to meaningfully and ethically engage with people around novel technologies....

Along the sunset shores of northern California with waves gently crashing in the distance, 20 researchers spanning career stages and expertise gathered in solidarity to create the early drafts of “Centering relationships to place for more meaningful research and engagement.” That is how I would like to begin this blog — however that is entirely not what ha...

In this video, Dr. Nina Fontana joins COMPASS's Bob Crimian to reflect on her experience in the workshop, how she's building on the skills she learned, and why it's important to her to bring research back to communities and policy....

The environmental history of the southeastern United States — as in many parts of the “New World” — was irrevocably changed by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. European colonization decimated Indigenous and Native communities, and the need for resources and cheap labor drove economic growth as the world entered the Industrial Revolution. While the landscape ...

Ethical Space is a powerful framework for transforming relationships between Indigenous peoples and western science, but ultimately, creating Ethical Space depends on the individuals’ willingness to open their minds and invite others into the process. In this episode, Dr. Leigh Welling, Park Superintendent of Wind Cave National Park, joins Sarah Sunu, Gwen Bridge...

What’s the point of learning new skills without putting them into action? In early June, COMPASS led a policy engagement training in Washington, DC through a partnership with the ClimateWorks Foundation for scientists and experts in ocean carbon dioxide removal (henceforth referred to as ocean CDR).  Over the course of the daylong training, ocean CDR speciali...