Welcome to our audience here and those of us joining us by livestream. We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of journalism education at drake. In 1919, ournning program has been characterized by a close relationship with our profession and service to the community. We are proud to continue the tradition by cohosting the conversation tonight about Climate Change with experts on the front lines of this pressing public issue. This event is brought to you through a collaboration between Drake University and the philanthropic we funded, philanthropically funded free service for journalists to accurateore credible, researchbased news stories. We are just wrapping up a boot camp at drake where journalists from around the country received briefings from experts on issues that will be prominent in the president ial campaign. To acknowledge and thank the provost in the front row who is herself a scientist. Also the former Washington Post science reporter and the entire team of scientists and
Good evening. My name is Kathleen Richardson and i am the dean of the school of journalism and mitigation at Drake University. Welcome both to the members of our audience here at the Science Center of iowa and des moines and to those of us or those of you who are joining us by lifestream. This year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of journalism education at drake and from the beginning in 1919 our program has been characterized by a close relationship with our profession and by service for our community. We are very proud to continue that tradition by cohosting the conversation tonight. We have experts on the front lines of this pressing public issue. This event is brought to you through a collaboration between Drake University and sidelined. Sideline is a philosophically funded free service for journalists based at the American Association for the advancement of science in washington dc. It connects reporters to scientists in order to promote more credible Accurate Research ba
This event is brought to you by collaboration between date drake university. We connect reporters to scientists to promote more credible, accurate, researchbased news stories. We are wrapping up a boot camp at drake and which political journalists received briefings from experts on science issues that will be prominent in the president ial campaign. The program was promoted by the Schmidt Family foundation. Acknowledge the academic leaders of drake university. And our entire team of scientists and science communicators who have worked so hard to organize this event. That theyremind folks are welcome to ask questions and join the conversation via twitter. Please turn off any ringers on your cell phones and please do not use flash photography. That, i am very pleased to ,ntroduce tonights moderator veteran science reporter miles obrien. He is an independent journalist to covers science, technology, and aerospace. He is a science correspondent for pbs newshour. A writer for nova. An aviat
Richardsonkathleen and i am the dean of the school of journalism and Mass Communication at Drake University. Welcome to the members of our audience here at the Science Center of iowa and des moines and those of you joining us by livestream. This year, we are celebrating ersary at drake. We have been characterized by service to our community. We are proud to continue that tradition by cohosting the conversation tonight about Climate Change with experts who are on the front lines of this present this pressing public issue. This event is brought to you through a collaboration between Drake University and a philanthropic we funded free service for journalists based at the American Association for the advancement of science in washington, d. C. They connects reporters to scientists in order to promote more credible, accurate, researchbased news stories. We are just wrapping up a 2. 5 day boot camp at drake in which political journalists from around the country received briefings from expert
Climatologists for a discussion on local, regional, National Climate change. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Good evening. My name is Kathleen Richardson and i am the dean of the school of journalism and Mass Communication at Drake University. Welcome to the members of our audience here at the Science Center of iowa and des moines and those of you joining us by livestream. His year, we are celebrating he 100th anniversary at drake. We have been characterized by service to our community. We are proud to continue that tradition by cohosting the conversation tonight about Climate Change with experts who are on the front lines of this pressing public issue. This event is brought to you through a collaboration between Drake University and a funded free service for journalists based at the American Association for the advancement of science in washington, d. C. They connects reporters to scientists in order to promote more credible, accurate, researchbased news stories. We are just wrapping