12 Apr Risk and Uncertainty and the Communication of Sea Level Rise
Friday, April 12 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Corwin Pavilion
This conference is the culminating event of the year-long Figuring Sea Level Rise series. It focuses on several crucial questions in the debate about climate change and sea level rise: who is likely to be immediately affected? What is likely to happen to them? And why is it so challenging to accurately communicate the likely impacts?
This conference is free and open to the public; feel free to attend one or all of the sessions.
Sponsored by the College of Letters and Science, the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation, Carsey-Wolf Center, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, the Dept. of Communication, the Dept. of Film and Media Studies, and the IHC.
Website: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/emi/events/apr12
Schedule of Events
9:00-9:30 am Registration
9:30-9:45 am Welcome and Introductions
• Dr. Ronald E. Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication, Department of Communication, and Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center
• Dr. Melvin L. Oliver, SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences and Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science
• Dr. Janet Walker, Professor, Film and Media Studies Department
Session 1
9:45-10:45 am Keynote – First Stewards: Coastal Peoples Confront Sea Level Rise
• Micah McCarty, Makah Nation, Convener of First Stewards Symposium
Session 2
11:00am-12:15 pm Affected Communities and Human Dimensions of Climate Change
Panelists:
• Roberta Reyes Cordero, JD, Coastal Chumash, Santa Barbara CA
• Michael Williams, Chief of the Yupiit Nation, National Tribal Environmental Council Executive Committee, Mental Health counselor, Akiak, AK
• Kalei Nu’uhiwa, Hawai’ian, Researcher & Curriculum developer, Practitioner of Papahulilani, First Stewards witness
Moderator:
• Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez, Elder, Governing council of the Barbareno Chumash
Council; Chair, Chumash Elders Women’s Council of the Wishtoyo Foundation
Session 3
2:00 – 3:15 pm Responding to the Unknowable and Planning for the Future
• Dr. Kathryn Yusoff, The Lancaster Environment Center, Lancaster University, UK
• Rear Admiral (ret.) Dr. David Titley, Former Deputy Under Secretary for Operations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency
Moderator:
• Dr. Ronald E. Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication, Department of Communication, and Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center
Session 4
3:30 – 4:45 pm Communicating Risk and Uncertainty
• Dan Kahan, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, and Professor of Psychology, Yale University
• Paula S. Apsell, Senior Executive Producer, NOVA and NOVA scienceNOW, and Director, WGBH Science Unit, Boston
Moderator:
• Richard Hutton, Executive Director, Carsey-Wolf Center
Figuring Sea Level Rise Sponsors
Figuring Sea Level Rise is the 2012-13 Critical Issues in America series, which is funded each year by UC Santa Barbara’s College of Letters and Science to discuss an important topic of contemporary concern or significance.
The Carsey-Wolf Center supports research, teaching, and public programming about media. The Center’s Environmental Media Initiative brings together environmental scientists with film and media scholars drawn from the humanities, arts, and social sciences to explore all of the ways media and the environment influence, structure, and inhabit each other.
The Arthur N. Rupe Foundation is dedicated to achieving positive social changes by shining light on critical and controversial issues. The Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication organizes the biennial Rupe Conference.
Other sponsors include: UC Santa Barbara’s NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, Department of Film and Media Studies, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and Center for Information Technology and Society.
Figuring Sea Level Rise Sponsors
Figuring Sea Level Rise is the 2012-13 Critical Issues in America series, which is funded each year by UC Santa Barbara’s College of Letters and Science to discuss an important topic of contemporary concern or significance.
The Carsey-Wolf Center supports research, teaching, and public programming about media. The Center’s Environmental Media Initiative brings together environmental scientists with film and media scholars drawn from the humanities, arts, and social sciences to explore all of the ways media and the environment influence, structure, and inhabit each other.
The Arthur N. Rupe Foundation is dedicated to achieving positive social changes by shining light on critical and controversial issues. The Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication organizes the biennial Rupe Conference.
Other sponsors include: UC Santa Barbara’s NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, Department of Film and Media Studies, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and Center for Information Technology and Society.