Sharing Best Practice Out and about Organising public events: a collection of case studies from the COPUS grants scheme COPUS – the Committee on the Public Understanding

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• COPUS
• Science Museum
• Garden
• Museum of Science
• Botanical garden
• Massachusetts
• United Kingdom
• Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
• Science in society
• Science

Understanding, Managing, and Protecting Opportunities for Visitor Experiences Advancing the Dialogue of Visitor Management: Expanding Beyond the Culture of Technical Control Stephen F. McCool, School of Forestry, Univer

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• Environment
• Problem solving
• Earth
• Environmental social science
• Public administration
• Tourism carrying capacity
• Ecosystem management
• Environmental resources management
• Wicked problem
• Science
• Policy
• Environmental economics

TAB 3C promoting understanding ▪ cultivating responsibility An  Educational  Tool  Developed  Under  the  Auspices  of  the  National  Science  Advisory  Board  for  Biosecurity

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• Influenza
• Public health
• Flu pandemic
• Pandemic
• Virology
• Virus
• Biosecurity
• Orthomyxoviridae
• Influenza vaccine
• Epidemiology
• Health
• Medicine

Coalition for Plasma Science The objective of the Coalition for Plasma Science is to increase public awareness and understanding of plasma science and its many applications and benefits for society. Members of the Coalit

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To know science is to love it? Observations from public understanding of science research Contents P 1

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• Philosophy of science
• Scientific method
• Science education
• Scientific theory
• Scientist
• National Institutes of Health
• Science communication
• Science
• technology
• society and environment education
• Science
• Knowledge
• Science studies

So did it work? Evaluating public understanding of science events More and more people and organisations are becoming involved in raising public understanding of science. There are now events for the public most days of

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• Methodology
• Scientific method
• Market research
• Survey methodology
• Data collection
• Questionnaire
• Job interview
• Interview
• Evaluation
• Research methods
• Science
• Evaluation methods

PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF PLANETARY SCIENCE 12 March 2006 Lunar and Planetary Institute Houston, Texas A Few Tools for Assessing Audience Understanding

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• Educational psychology
• Science
• Audience
• Theatre
• Critical thinking

Vaccine Safety - Communicating with parents • What is science? • Why is the public understanding of science important?

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• Science
• Probability
• Statistical hypothesis testing
• Statistical power
• John P. A. Ioannidis
• Information
• Statistics
• Hypothesis testing

Year of Science 2009 Kicks Off this Week across the Nation January 6, 2009

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• Café Scientifique
• Ira Flatow
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• Knowledge
• Academia
• Science in society
• Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
• Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science
• COPUS
• Science

TABLE OF CONTENTS OUR PROCESS AT A GLANCE To forecast the consequences of earthquakes, it is important to assess risk by understanding what historically has happened in the region in terms of earthquake location, frequen

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• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• HAZUS
• Seismology
• Actuarial science
• Earthquake
• Risk
• Seismic risk
• Earthquake insurance
• Management
• Emergency management
• Public safety