Effective community action on climate change requires broad support and participation. We aimed to support training and skill-building in communications to create a cohort of community liaisons who could effectively deliver and share climate information with members of their communities.

This project built off the research and engagement efforts underway for the development of a comprehensive climate mitigation strategy for the Thurston Regional Planning Council.

The training was designed to ensure the community liaisons were skilled climate change communicators and able to help collate community input to inform the larger mitigation strategy.

The project outputs were developed based on extensive community feedback, gathered through briefings, interviews, open forums and more.

Building Capacity for Societally Engaged Climate Science by Transforming Science Training: Based on our experience preparing scientists for similar careers, we offer a perspective on a path for the academy to better develop, train and support scientists to conduct societally relevant research.

Insights: Giving Science a Voice in Public Policy is an op-ed written by COMPASS, featuring quotes from CIG Scientist Meade Krosby on her role in communicating science to the public.

Art-Science Sea Level Rise Collaboration: Climate Impacts Group researcher Heidi Roop teamed up with local Artist Anna McKee and UW Glaciologist Peter Neff to create an art installation about the regional impacts of sea level rise for the 2018 Surge exhibition at the Museum of Northwest Art.