Dawn Wright, a professor of geosciences at Oregon State University, has been chosen as one of 20 Leopold Leadership Fellows for 2011, a program for environmental scientists to enhance their skills in communicating science to developers of policy, decision makers and the public.
The program, now based at Stanford University and originally created in 1998 by OSU marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco, is funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Participants receive leadership and communications training to help them more effectively inform policy makers, journalists, business leaders and the general public about complex ecological, environmental and scientific issues.
“Academic scientists work hard to understand environmental problems and develop potential solutions,” said Pamela Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University.
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