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ASU-led partnership engages citizens in NASA’s Asteroid Initiative

29 Sep 20153 Nov 2015

Posted: September 28, 2015 https://asunews.asu.edu/20150928-informing-nasa-asteroid-initiative Jason Lloyd, jason.lloyd@asu.edu (202) 684-2405 Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes How can humans best protect the Earth from a potentially devastating asteroid impact? Could…

World Wide Views Climate and Energy Forums in the US

19 Mar 201517 Jun 2015

In a policy breakfast seminar in Washington DC on Thursday, March 19th, ECAST team members Rick Worthington, Mahmud Farooque, David Tomblin and Gretchen Gano introduced World Wide Views on Climate and…

Get involved in our next big project—NASA’s Asteroid Initiative!

25 Aug 201417 Jun 2015

Informing NASA’s Asteroid Initiative: A Citizen Forum In its history, the Earth has been repeatedly struck by asteroids, large chunks of rock from space that can cause considerable damage in…

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ECAST Workshops at ASTC Annual Meeting

26 Oct 201217 Jun 2015

On Sunday, October 14th, ECAST members visited the largest national conference of Informal Science Education (ISE) professionals to talk about the World Wide Views on Biodiversity deliberations. With 600 member…

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Extending the Conversation

17 Sep 201217 Jun 2015

Extending the Conversation Now that the actual day of World Wide Views on Biodiversity is over, those of us working in science museums as part of ECAST have a lot…

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It’s been exciting counting and recording votes in Boston as data comes in from around the world

15 Sep 201227 Oct 2015

The World Wide Views project is collecting data from as many as 100 participants at 32 sites world wide and they have created a website into which we enter the…

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Science Cheerleaders pump up World Wide Views events!

15 Sep 201227 Oct 2015

On September 15, 2012, four sites in the United States hosted public deliberations on the topic of biodiversity. This important effort is part of the World Wide Views on Biodiversity.…

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Postcards from the U.S. sites: World Wide Views on Biodiversity

15 Sep 201227 Oct 2015

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World Wide Views project is a learning experience for all

12 Sep 201227 Oct 2015

In recent years, folks in the informal science education community have been talking about "public engagement with science" in a new way. For years we've used that term to mean…

Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology

4 Sep 201227 Oct 2015

Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology Founded in 2010 as a response to a call to use “citizen participation, collaboration and expert analysis to inform and improve decision-making…