SciComm

Reporter Aimee Sulit wrote a summary of Anne’s recent talk at The Foley Institute. A video of the talk is available here.

As an invited speaker at The Foley Institute’s fall speaker series, Anne overviewed what we know about climate adaptation and how we should study it (and support it) going forward.

Anne was the lead guest editor of a special issue in Phil Trans B on how studying culture can provide insight into climate change adaptation. Tate Young wrote a piece for Daily Evergreen about the special issue, sharing not only the take-home messages of the issue, but also Anne’s recent experiences working on climate adaptation, including her recent efforts to improve her chops as a science communicator.

In his blogpost summarizing our article in Evolution & Human Behavior, Kris provides a background on long-distance friendships in humans - from past examples to a priori predictions about how they should work - and then summarizes our findings from Tanzania. Take-home message: “People lean on their friends to get through hard times and long-distance friends can provide some kinds of help that close-distance friends might not be able to provide, no strings attached.”

Anne was the lead guest editor of a special issue in Phil Trans B on how studying culture can provide insight into climate change adaptation. Will Ferguson wrote a summary in WSU Insider, emphasizing what we can learn from the adaptation strategies communities are using around the globe.

As lead Guest Editor of a special issue on cultural adaptation to climate change, Anne wrote a post for the Royal Society Blog summarizing five key lessons from the issue aimed at academics and practitioners.

In a Wake Up With Research panel on climate and health in Washington state, Anne talks about the startup she founded, ClimTo.

Listen to Anne discuss how researchers can prepare for fieldwork, in their home country or abroad.

Listen to Kris discuss his research program with Hadza foragers and Kiswahili fishers.

Listen to Anne overview her research program, including both older and newer research.