Exploring COVID-19’s Effect on the Scientific Enterprise: A Podcast Ethnography
In this Research Spark, AEC master's graduate Alice Akers takes us through AEC doctoral student Dr. Jacqueline Anelle's podcast ethnography study to explore the major themes of the Streaming Science podcast series: State of the Scientific Enterprise During COVID-19. The study was published in the International Journal of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science: https://doi.org/10.56734/ijahss.v3n9a4 View ...
Labs and Landscapes: Virtual Reality Tours
In this Research Spark, AEC master's student Marissa Crowhurst takes us through AEC doctoral graduate Dr. Whitney Stone's mixed methods study Labs and Landscapes Virtual Reality: Student-Created Forest Conservation Tours for Informal Public Engagement published in the Journal of Applied Communications for the Association for Communication Excellence. The article and its findings were published in 2022: ...
Women in Climate: Podcast Series
Women around the world working in a variety of sectors are searching for solutions to climate change. The Nature Conservancy's Women in Climate Coalition brings together diverse groups of women leaders to collaborate in inclusive innovation labs, facilitated networks, and policy workshops to develop strategies to tackle climate change impacts on areas such as the ...
University of Florida in Belize: A Digital Field Experience 2022
The University of Florida (UF) Department of Agricultural Education and Communication (AEC) took more than 10 undergraduate and graduate students on a study abroad trip in summer 2022 to Belize. As part of the trip, three students developed a digital field experience (DFE) to connect adult learners in Florida with Belize. You can watch the ...
Food Outcast: Podcast Series
The Reality of Food Insecurity for Graduate International Students Learn more about University of Florida - Agricultural Education and Communication graduate Alice Akers' non-thesis master's podcast series project titled 'Food Outcast.' Listen to the podcasts to learn more about international graduate students' experiences with food insecurity. Visit this page to learn more and listen to ...
Social Responsibility in the Soil and Water Sciences: Spotlight on the Everglades Agricultural Area
This photo essay series features the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Everglades Research and Education Center (EREC). Learn about Dr. Jehangir Bhadha, his work, and the social responsibility that soil and water sciences researchers have to the public. Caroline Nickerson developed this solutions-focused photo essay. Caroline is a Ph.D. student ...
UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department Teaching Garden
The University of Florida is home to the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) Horticultural Sciences Department's Teaching Garden where students and researchers can experiment with different kinds of agricultural techniques like planting, grafting, trellising, and fertilizing - to name a few examples. UF Department of Agricultural Education and Communication student Maggie Murphy created ...
Florida Museum of Natural History: Fantastic Fossils Exhibit
Explore a virtual tour of the Science Up Close: Fantastic Fossils exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural history. The exhibit showcased research and collections, as well as included an interactive area for engaging with scientists while they worked with some of the museum's specimens and objects. To view/interact with the VR tours: Option 1: ...
Wekiwa Springs, Then and Now.
This project is part of our Nature Narrative photo essay series, which focuses on different nature sites in the state of Florida. Students visited their selected sites and gave detailed descriptions of their experiences and the scenery around them, while highlighting aspects of the environment that are important to the state of Florida. Caroline Nickerson is ...
Me and My Beach
This project is part of our Nature Narrative photo essay series, which focuses on different nature sites in the state of Florida. Students visited their selected sites and gave detailed descriptions of their experiences and the scenery around them, while highlighting aspects of the environment that are important to the state of Florida. Alice's beach ...