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Audio programs from the CSM Lab feature in-depth interviews with diverse experts who share actionable insights from their work on topical issues in civic science from multiple perspectives. The audio format provides guests with an additional way to share new insights, creating a synergistic effect with other programs on the network, on video and digital print.
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Consider This Next is an audio program from the Civic Science Media Lab that features conversations with civic science entrepreneurs building for-profit and nonprofit organizations to engage local communities with science.
Hosted by Dr. Kristel Tjandra, Science Engaged is an audio program that explores why and how scientists partner with diverse communities. Dr. Tjandra speaks with scientists who have worked with local communities on a range of participatory science projects. She asks them three core questions: why public participation in science matters, what these collaborations produce, and how to do it well.
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Programs from the Civic Science Media (CSM) Lab audio studio feature in-depth interviews with diverse experts who share actionable insights from their work on topical issues in civic science from multiple perspectives. The audio format provides guests with an additional way to share new insights, creating a synergistic effect with other programs on the network, on video and digital print.
In this episode of Science Engaged, Dr. Kristel Tjandra speaks with Dr. Grace Wolf-Chase, a senior scientist and senior education and communication specialist at the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports a distributed network of planetary scientists. She is also the co-creator of the Milky Way Project, a participatory science initiative that contributes to the understanding of how stars form.
In 2024, Dr. Wolf-Chase was elected as an American Astronomical Society fellow for outstanding and sustained work to bring the wonders of astronomical research to the general public. In our conversation, she explains why she views public engagement as integral to scientific practice itself, not separate from it. Drawing on her experience designing and sustaining citizen science projects, she highlights one of the central design constraints that practitioners often underestimate: while many people are motivated to contribute to science, participation is limited less by interest than by time. This reality shaped the Milky Way Project and similar initiatives to allow flexible, low-commitment participation without requiring long-term obligations.
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