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Early in my career,  I taught courses and conducted research in Chemical Engineering. My specialty was separation technologies and fluid mechanics.  I investigated sludge, paints and cement. I enjoyed watching paint dry and spent a winter day on Racetrack Playa in Death Valley looking

Meet Mallory Carra: a journalist and podcast expert turning words into worlds, and now the driving force behind our newest podcast series “Electric Futures.” Through this work that challenges how we think about the clean energy transition, Mallory explores how to tell climate stories

As a student at the University of Southern California, I’m always irritated by the common question of  “where are you from?” Especially considering I can’t mention another state or country and I can’t use the generic “Bay Area” response, I tend to have to

Last month at COP, the annual United Nations climate conference, I had the opportunity to deliver a series of talks about climate communication. What really stuck with me about the experience is the commonality in questions people asked afterwards, both with raised hands in

This fall, I had the opportunity to tune into the Climate Center’s first Research to Reality session: “How to Refute Climate Change Misinformation” where USC professor Gale Sinatra spoke about her research around climate science education, theories of learning and the role of emotion

Communicating about climate change fosters understanding and inspires action when grounded in both research and simplicity. As emphasized in our most recent ‘Research to Reality’ series, Dr. Wändi Bruin de Bruin, a world-renowned psychologist, policy expert, and professor of practice at the University of

Six months ago, our center concluded a partnership with ABC Owned Television Stations called "Covering Climate", a ten session training program hosted from November 2022 - April 2023. You can learn more about the partnership in this blog post. We recently reconnected with ABC

I spend a lot of time working with students, journalists, and scientists to support their efforts as climate communicators. To teach them, my colleagues and I draw on research published by experts in the field. I believe in this approach and I also believe

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to be the first USC Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication rural climate reporting fellow.  I spent two months reporting at the Malheur Enterprise, a local newspaper based in Vale, which is a small town in

To know me as I am today is in part to know a piece of my ancestry. By way of my paternal grandmother, I am six generations descended from James Gamble, a co-founder of the multinational consumer goods company Procter and Gamble. Though I