IMPACT: Welcome to Informing Policymakers!
Welcome to the Advancing Scientific Ocean Drilling IMPACT through Informing Policymakers workshop community! We are delighted to accept your application to participate in our virtual workshop next month. Collectively, you all are a diverse group of participants with an exciting range of perspectives. We expect our conversations to be lively and informative.
Our synchronous workshop sessions will take place on July 19 and 21 from 14 -17:30 Eastern time. An overview of our current workshop program is available here, and we'll continue to update the details as the sessions approach.
In preparation for our synchronous sessions, we do ask that you complete a series of short tasks. These will provide our workshop community with a shared knowledge base and will help us to make the most of our discussions. Please see this checklist and plan some time in your schedule to prepare for the workshop. We expect to begin the real work of the workshop in our asynchronous discussion group/threads, flow those discussions into the live events, and continue group conversations afterwards. We hope these efforts will be effective and provide adequate time to cover more ground on these important topics than would be possible in the synchronous sessions alone, and allow multiple methods of interaction and opportunities to build on conversations that get started in one place or the other.
We also want to let you know that if you applied for more than one of the Advancing Scientific Ocean Drilling IMPACT workshops this summer, your acceptance to this workshop does not in any way affect your application to the other workshops. Applications for the August (Preparing the Next Generation) workshop will be reviewed in early July, shortly after the application deadline.
If you have any questions, or if you are no longer able to attend this workshop, please contact Kira Homola at khomola@uri.edu.
We very much value your participation in this workshop and look forward to seeing you!
Kira Homola, Suzanne O'Connell, Richard Norris, and Mitch Schulte (conveners)
Carol Ormand (SERC workshop staff)