Diving Deeper: Immersive Storytelling
for Climate Science
2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., October 12, 2017
J. Wayne Reitz Union’s Rion Ballroom
One of the most urgent issues of our time, climate change is also one of the toughest communications challenges of the day. The University of Florida’s annual climate-communications summit aims to help UF faculty, staff and students – along with other professionals and members of the public – gain expertise and collaborate to improve understanding of climate change and its impacts local to global.
Diving Deeper: Immersive Storytelling for Climate Science, our third-annual summit, will explore virtual reality and other types of immersive storytelling that hold promise for helping people visualize the climate-changed future. Speakers this year include:
Keynote: Jeremy Bailenson
Founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, whose work includes taking members of Congress underwater virtually to show them the future impacts of ocean acidification.
Sri Kalyanaraman
Director of the College of Journalism and Communications’ Media Effects and Technology Lab, who’ll discuss some of the lab’s collaborative environmental and climate projects from oil spills to sea-level rise.
Jenny Staletovich
Environmental reporter for The Miami Herald. One of Audubon magazine’s national “women greening journalism,” and named by the Miami New Times as the Herald’s best reporter of 2016 for being an “informed, impassioned, and steady voice” as South Florida charts its future in the face of rising seas.