Media Trainings and Presentations on Science Communication

As a guest lecturer in the advanced reporting class at the University of Oregon,
I taught students how to write about agriculture. (photo by Dean Rea)
  • Taught Oregon Sea Grant’s sustainability interns and summer scholars about writing blog posts and tweets and shooting and captioning photos (6/13/22)
  • Taught OSG’s summer scholars how to shoot, crop and caption photos (6/17/19)
  • Taught OSG’s summer scholars how to shoot, crop and caption photos and how to write tweets (6/18/18)
  • Participated on a panel about science communications during the annual conference of the Pacific branch of the Entomological Society of America in Portland (4/4/17)
  • Taught OSG’s summer scholars about science communication (7/15/16)
  • Facilitated discussions on leadership during OSU's Natural Resources Leadership Academy in Bend (2014 and 2015)
  • Led webinar on "Writing About Impact” at a training for OSU Extension county leaders. View PowerPoint. (6/12/15)
  • Conducted media training for OSU Extension faculty in Lane County (4/13/15)
  • Conducted media training at a conference of the Society of Northwestern Vertebrate Biologists in Portland (2/24/15)
  • Conducted media training for graduate students at the Research Advances in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Ecology Symposium at OSU (2/20/14)
  • Conducted media training for OSU Extension faculty in Washington County (2015)
  • Guest lectured about working with media for the OSU class FW 489 Effective Communications in Fisheries and Wildlife Science (5/20/14)
  • Taught OSU Extension faculty in Washington and Multnomah counties how to write impact statements (9/22/14)
  • Taught OSU faculty with the Oregon Wine Research Institute about science writing (4/22/14)
  • Collaborated with OSU's News and Research Communications department to provide media training to faculty in OSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences (12/3/13)
  • Taught OSU Extension faculty in Union County how to work with local media (2013)
  • Taught OSU Extension faculty in Deschutes County how to use social media (2013)
  • Led a workshop on using Facebook and Twitter during OSU Extension’s Spring Training in Corvallis (5/1/12)
  • Conducted media training at OSU for 4-H high school state ambassadors (11/11/11)
  • Trained 20 scientists on a $20 million grant about science communications during a U.S. Department of Agriculture workshop at the University of Idaho in Moscow (May 2011)
  • Presented "5 Tips to Increase Your Media Coverage" during OSU Extension’s Spring Training in Corvallis (2010)
  • Conducted media training for FFA students at an FFA meeting at OSU (7/16/09)
  • Led a workshop on "Working with Local News Media" during OSU Extension’s Spring Training in Corvallis (4/16/09)
  • Guest lectured on media relations and message development in professor Sam Chan's fisheries and wildlife capstone class at OSU (4/2/09)
  • Taught 4-H faculty in Washington and Multnomah counties how to pitch stories to media and helped them create a communications strategy (2009)
  • Conducted media training for OSU Extension faculty in Clackamas County (2008)
  • Conducted media training for OSU Extension faculty in Lane County (9/5/08)
  • Co-presented with Peg Herring on science writing at the Association for Communication Excellence annual conference in Traverse City (2008)
  • Guested lectured on agricultural journalism in the advanced reporting class at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication (10/21/08)
  • Guest lectured on financial journalism in the advanced reporting class at the UO (2001)
  • Guest lectured on foreign correspondence in the international journalism class at the UO (2001)