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Planet Now
Blog on Effective Environmental Communication
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Environmental Communicator Brooke Bauman on Using Your Strengths for Solving Climate Change2/23/2023
If you read my book Planet Now, you may remember the chapters featuring Brooke and her writing projects. She wrote for Yale Climate Connections and wrote and produced her own podcast, the Guilty Plastics Podcast.
Now that she is with the NPS, Brooke is excited to be producing another podcast. This one is for Park Science Magazine about how Cape Hatteras National Seashore is addressing sea level rise impacts at their park. She interviewed Dave Hallac, superintendent of the park, and found it interesting to learn about the park’s research to identify areas that are susceptible to erosion, informing where to avoid building structures. In her role, Brooke has mainly been focused on projects about sea level rise and restoration. A big project has been putting together a spatial database of coastal restoration projects across parks. She has also been developing case study briefs that they plug into the database so that employees across parks can view project information and share resources. Plus, Brooke has gotten to occasionally visit field sites. She attended a volunteer work day in Rocky Mountain National Park and collected native seeds to be planted in burned areas that lost vegetation. Brooke loves getting to work in a space where she helps protect the environment and reduce the risks of climate impacts because she has been worried about climate change since she was a kid. She explained that in elementary school it was “a shock to the system to learn about something that could rock your world.” In high school she decided to take action to help slow climate change. She began a sustainability club to encourage composting and start a native plant garden. Going into college, she was interested in sustainability but wasn’t sure what a career in that space would look like. After about a year, she found her interest in environmental communication. Brooke graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2021 with a major in environmental science and minors in geography as well as media and journalism. Brooke highly recommends the Scientists in Parks internship program through which she found her NPS role. It connects recent graduates who want experience in the NPS and offers a wide variety of positions, both in the field and office. As we face serious climate change impacts, it is important for everyone to contribute to the movement to slow the problem in the ways they are able. Like Brooke said, everyone has skills that can apply to solving climate change. Read an earlier blog post on climate-related careers to learn more about the ways people can help and the types of skills you can apply to solving climate change!
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Welcome to my blog! It is a combination of posts from my strategic writing (spring 2022) and personal branding (spring 2023) courses at UNC. I hope you will enjoy reading the posts and learning about the environment and communication.
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