Geoscience Communication

Geoscience Communication (GC) is a journal that seeks to be a conduit to help all aspects of EGU convey their relevance, significance and impact outside academia. Areas of this science communication include outreach, public engagement, widening participation and knowledge exchange.  Actually, it includes research about any initiative which seeks to communicate an aspect of geoscience to a wider audience than the experts within that particular field, and to give this recognition similar to traditional scientific work.

Work can be activity-led, illustratively a new classroom activity (e.g. on earthquake early-warning systems), evaluated to record and build best communication practice. Alternatively, it might be curiosity-led testing of a research hypothesis e.g. are geoscientists more effective than non-geoscientists in determining whether video game world landscapes are realistic? Our Philosophy is to be open and helpful, so please talk to us about ideas pre-submission. Indeed, look out for two short courses we run that aim to improve communication (SC3.13 – ‘Get your writing right’) and demystify what research about geoscience communications involves (SC3.11 - How to publish my geoscience communication work: A hands-on, participatory workshop).