As we finish our Exploring Environments student-designed units, students have published blog posts for the science communication assessed task. In this task, assessed for Communication in Science, they had to pick a case study or current news item of interest and direct connection to their group’s unit. Using guidance, models of good science writing, GoogleDocs drafting (and for some, pointers from professional science writer Andy Revkin), they wrote short articles on their case study.

There’s no point writing for an audience of one, so…

..here they are!

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• Maggie’s post on fighting Aricanized bees with… more bees!
• Heather’s post on invasive mussels and their damaging impacts.
• Parina’s post on 13 oils spills in 30 days (!) 
• Joanna’s post on Australia burning.
• Kyoko’s post on painting the roof white to cool the town.
• Rohan’s post on the cost of shark finning.
• Sanam’s post on the end of the reign of the king of butterflies.
• Stephanie’s post on cell phones and honeybees.
• Mahya’s post on Australia’s new colour on the temperature chart.
• TaeHyun’s post on spring floods and the Gulf of Mexico dead zone.
• Yota’s post on Sea Shepherd vs Japan.
• Aili’s post on bluefin tuna being worth too much dead to be allowed to live.
• Cedric’s post on the mystery of the dead pigs in China.
• Mikka’s post on the shrinking Antarctic ozone hole.
• Haruki’s post on the highest global temperatures in 4,000 years.