title: Summary Report Panel 4: Communication and Interpretation: Presenting Information to the General Public.
abstract: Complex scientific information is often difficult to communicate to nonscience audiences who may not have the foundational knowledge to understand the content. Scientists are called on with increasing frequency to share the results of their research for the purposes of education, outreach, and popular media stories. These three spheres of activity, represented in Fig. 1, are geared toward different but complementary goals.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI, 02882, USA. gailscow@mail.uri.edu.
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scowcroft
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination
keywords: Communication; Education; Outreach