Welcome to IMPACT!
Welcome to the Advancing Scientific Ocean Drilling IMPACT through Public Engagement workshop community! We are delighted to accept your application to participate in our virtual workshop later this 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 June 22 and 24 from 5-7:15 PM Eastern time. An overview of our current plans for the workshop is available on the program page.
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 4 hours 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 July (Informing Policymakers) and August (Preparing the Next Generation) workshops will be reviewed shortly after each of their application deadlines.
If you have any questions, or if you are no longer be able to attend this workshop, please contact Sharon at scooper@ldeo.columbia.edu.
We very much value your participation in this workshop and look forward to seeing you!
Sharon Cooper, Lisa White, Jon Lewis, Randi Wold-Brennon (conveners)
Carol Ormand (SERC workshop staff)