All day lab retreat - thinking, eating, hiking…repeat :)
A great day in Bloomington and a wonderful hike (although too many ticks!).
Joe, Shaz and Deidra with Lake Monroe behind us. Savannah loving on Deidra below 🐾
Baby turtle on our trail
New paper out: Climate change communicators’ carbon footprints affect their audience’s policy support
Our new paper is out in Climatic Change, co-authored with (the amazing and wonderful) David Krantz (Columbia University) and Elke Weber (Princeton University).
We find that people are more likely to support decarbonization policies if the advocate for the policies have a low carbon footprint. We also find that the negative effects of a large carbon footprint on credibility are greatly reduced if the communicator reforms their behavior by reducing their personal carbon footprints.
You can find the paper here https://rdcu.be/bEdkL and the accompanying data and supplemental files on our publication page.
BE.Hive: Climate Change Needs Behavior Change - RARE & National Geographic
At the BE.Hive: Climate Change Needs Behavior Change summit, you will learn about the latest academic insights from behavior science, get inspired by the world’s leading environmentalists, be ignited by artists, storytellers and explorers, and identify some of the greatest opportunities for shifting human behavior to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Looking forward to presenting and learning at NatGeo! March 19, 2019, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm; National Geographic, Washington DC
Congrats to Kurt and Noemi!
Huge congratulations to Kurt Waldman (Geography, Indiana U.) and Noemi Vergopolan (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton U.) for our new paper - “Cognitive biases about climate variability in smallholder farming systems in Zambia” (In press at Weather, Climate and Society).
We compare farmer’s perceptions of rainfall onset with satellite-gauge-derived rainfall data and hyper-resolution soil moisture estimates. We find that farmers perceive that rains are arriving later than they are and that farmers rely on heuristics about rainy season onset to decide on when to plant maize.
Janine visits us from China
Lab alum Janine Tang visits SPEA from China, where she has been studying and interning for her senior year. She will be headed to law school this fall. Always a pleasure to see what our amazing alums are up to..
Happy Holidays from the Attari Lab!
We wish each of you happy holidays and hope the new year renews your spirit and brings immense joy and hope.
IU Bicentennial Professor
Indiana University has named 25 Bicentennial Professors. Each Bicentennial Professor will travel around the state delivering public presentations at community forums that describe -- in an engaging and accessible manner -- some of their research or professional activities. Excited to be part of this group and talk with other Hoosiers!
One of my favorite people (best mentor, friend, collaborator, chef, statistician...)
Shahzeen with David Krantz (Professor at Columbia U.). I wish I could do a Vulcan mind meld with him on most days. Photo circa 2010.
Upcoming talks at Northwestern and University of Washington
I will be discussing new research on ad hominem attacks on climate researchers and effects on policy uptake (with David Krantz and Elke Weber) at Northwestern’s School of Communication on October 1st and University of Washington Seattle’s Center for Environmental Politics on October 5th. See you there!
Our lab - brain and heart
Bronson Bast, Deidra Miniard, Eleanor Bower, Shahzeen Attari, and Tyler Marghetis on a sunny day. (Photo credit: the wonderful Ezra Markowitz)
Named as Science News10 - In the cohort of top scientists under the age of 40
(Illustration by Sam Falconer, I am the scientist in green on the top left :)
Science News spotlights a group of early- and mid-career scientists who are breaking ground. “It’s a confident, tough group. Try to set limits or box these people in and they bristle. Some had childhood experiences that opened their minds to the possibilities of scientific research. Others dug in their heels to do something that an adult said would be too difficult.”
Honored to be in this cohort. Here is a wonderful profile by Bruce Bower.
Heading to the Headlands
Heading to the Headlands Center for the Arts to participate in a thematic residency addressing climate change. The purpose of the convening is to bring together artists, scientists, policy makers, activists and advocates to exchange ideas and working processes centering on addressing climate change.
Postcards from my last days in CA
Driving through the Carr fire in Redding CA
Talk at the Interval at Long Now - June 26, 02018. See you there.
Talk at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
I will be talking about new lines of research at LLNL on June 13th. My talk will be on fusing facts and feelings to motivate action on climate change. See you there.
Postcard from Tomales Point Trail - Point Reyes National Seashore
Shahzeen wins 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship!
Excited to receive the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellows scholarship to support my work on fusing facts and feelings to motivate climate solutions. Huge congrats to all the other recipients! More here.
Join our wonderful lab! Postdoc opening..
We have a postdoc opening on The future of energy systems - Human psychology and the possibilities of deep decarbonization. Let me know if you have any questions. Apply here!
