{"id":491,"date":"2014-09-17T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T10:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advancingecocomm.wordpress.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:15:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T10:15:51","slug":"sketchyourscience-takes-off-after-esa-2014-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2014\/09\/17\/sketchyourscience-takes-off-after-esa-2014-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"#SketchYourScience takes off after ESA 2014 workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-500 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2014\/09\/what-ecologists-think-of-drawing-09-2014.jpg?w=219\" alt=\"What ecologists think of drawing (09.2014)\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2014\/09\/what-ecologists-think-of-drawing-09-2014.jpg 658w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2014\/09\/what-ecologists-think-of-drawing-09-2014-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>It\u2019s happening! Multimedia SciComm is catching on, and our workshop participants are chief vectors for distributing the bug.<\/h4>\n<p>Our last post was about Johanna Varner and the research she does on pikas. Inspired by Johanna\u2019s own sketches, produced during our workshop, the <a href=\"http:\/\/advancingecocomm.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/25\/pikas-on-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pikas on Ice post<\/a> featured some delightful pika sketches by Jennifer Landin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pikas on Ice! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/8awa46SayY\">http:\/\/t.co\/8awa46SayY<\/a> Nice Ecotone piece by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrHolly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrHolly<\/a> on our work with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pikaresearch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pikaresearch<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ESA2014?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ESA2014<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sciart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sciart<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/scicomm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#scicomm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pikas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pikas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Pika Jo Varner (@johannavarner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johannavarner\/status\/509101527382757376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Now, Johanna and her colleagues\u00a0Nancy Huntly and\u00a0Erin Gleeson have taken the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23sketchyourscience&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SketchYourScience<\/a> well beyond themselves and their own study species.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As Johanna <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/johannavarner\/mountain-research-at-esa2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote recently<\/a>, prior to the sketching section of our EcoComm workshop,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026we had largely considered such artistic expressions to be squarely outside the realm of science. Of course, what we (like everyone else) had forgotten is that, prior to the last few centuries, illustrations and paintings were the very <a href=\"http:\/\/commnatural.com\/2014\/08\/11\/illustrating-ecology-conferences-that-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">foundations of scientific observation<\/a>\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johannavarner\/status\/498584519906058240\/photo\/1\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/johannavarner\/status\/498584519906058240\/photo\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the ESA 2014 meeting, the trio cruised the conference loaded with markers and blank paper. They solicited sketches from fellow mountain ecologists, encouraging their peers to distill their research into a single drawing. These images were then disseminated to the world via the Twitter handle\u00a0<i><a class=\"tweet-url username\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtnresearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@<\/a><\/i><a class=\"tweet-url username\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtnresearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">mtnresearch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MtnResearch\/status\/499424910767177728\/photo\/1\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MtnResearch\/status\/499424910767177728\/photo\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Rather like Tweeting, but arguably more compelling (and perhaps more daunting), compressing your work into a single sketch is a true exercise in honing your multimedia multi-disciplinary SciComm skills.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MtnResearch\/status\/500125656999424001\/photo\/1\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MtnResearch\/status\/500125656999424001\/photo\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Judging by <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/johannavarner\/mountain-research-at-esa2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Storify the team compiled recently<\/a>, ecologists are up to the task.<\/h4>\n<p>With images ranging from quick diagrams and colorful landscapes to more detailed and time-consuming drawings, mountain researchers demonstrated they have the ability to go analog and still make their point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s happening! Multimedia SciComm is catching on, and our workshop participants are chief vectors for distributing the bug. Our last post was about Johanna Varner and the research she does on pikas. Inspired by Johanna\u2019s own sketches, produced during our workshop, the Pikas on Ice post featured some delightful pika sketches by Jennifer Landin. Pikas on Ice! http:\/\/t.co\/8awa46SayY Nice Ecotone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,20],"tags":[37,53,67,69,87,113,115,124,135,140],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esa-annual-meeting","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-sketchingbeyond","tag-sciart","tag-blog-post","tag-drawing","tag-ecological-society-of-america","tag-inspiration","tag-resource","tag-resources-2","tag-scicomm-workshop","tag-sketching","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}