{"id":330,"date":"2014-08-06T20:10:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advancingecocomm.wordpress.com\/?page_id=330"},"modified":"2014-08-06T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:10:03","slug":"bethann-g-merkle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/about\/meet-the-team\/bethann-g-merkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethann Garramon Merkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2377 alignright img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2017\/08\/bethann_head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"Bethann_head shot\" width=\"298\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2017\/08\/bethann_head-shot.jpg 440w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2017\/08\/bethann_head-shot-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>I blend images\u00a0&amp; word\u00a0craft to communicate why science &amp; sustainability matter.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">I am an artist, educator, and science communicator passionate about the role stories play in shaping public perspectives of ecology, natural history, and sustainability. Recently, I\u2019ve done visual communication projects, freelance journalism, and science communication and \u2018sketching for scientists\u2019 trainings for scientists across the country and entities ranging from Parks Canada, The Nature Conservancy, and Harvard Forest\u00a0to community-scale\u00a0initiatives. In my day job, I am an illustrator, writer, and educator with the <a href=\"http:\/\/migrationinitiative.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wyoming Migration Initiative<\/a>.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Fav. scicomm:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceborealis.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Science Borealis<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radio Lab<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23sciart&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#sciart<\/a> on Twitter;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/symbiartic\/carly-tribulle28099s-entomology-comics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entomologist Carly Tribull\u2019s explanation of how she balances research and creating science comics<\/a><br>\n<strong>Online:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commnatural.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.commnatural.com<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/commnatural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@CommNatural<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <strong>Roles: <\/strong>Past Chairperson (2018-2019); Chairperson (2017-2018); ESA Committee on Diversity &amp; Education (2017-2019); Designer\/Webmaster (2014-present); Secretary (2015-2016); Section Co-Founder<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blend images\u00a0&amp; word\u00a0craft to communicate why science &amp; sustainability matter. I am an artist, educator, and science communicator passionate about the role stories play in shaping public perspectives of ecology, natural history, and sustainability. Recently, I\u2019ve done visual communication projects, freelance journalism, and science communication and \u2018sketching for scientists\u2019 trainings for scientists across the country and entities ranging from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":0,"parent":4130,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-330","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}