Geoscience Communication and Public Engagement

The EAGE Special Interest Community on Geoscience Communication & Public Engagement is a dynamic group of geoscientists, educators, and communicators dedicated to enhancing public understanding of Earth’s systems and the role of geoscientists and engineers in the Energy Transition. The community is a focal point for various communication initiatives.

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Objectives

Enhance communication skills of geoscientists for impactful storytelling and media engagement.
Provide knowledge sharing, expert guidance, and hands-on training for effective geoscience communication.
Bridge the gap between geoscientific discovery and public action through outreach and collaboration.
Empower each member to become an ambassador of the energy transition.

Upcoming Activities

EAGE Annual 2025 (Toulouse, France) | Inaugural Session
EAGE Annual 2025 (Toulouse, France) | Short Course ‘Geoscience Communication and Public Engagement’ by Iain Stewart

Previous Activities

EAGE offered a transformative short course led by Professor Iain Stewart during GET2024 held in November 2024 in Rotterdam.

The course, ‘Geoscience Communication and Public Engagement’, underscored the importance of communication skills in fostering trust, securing project approvals, and bridging the gap between technical expertise and public understanding.

Committee

The Geoscience Communication and Public Engagement Community is coordinated by a Committee that serves for two years. The current Committee is serving the 2025 – 2027 term.

Name	Company / Institution	Country
Iain Stewart	RSS/University of Plymouth	Jordan/UK
Maren Kleemeyer	Shell	The Netherlands
Edward Wiarda	EBN	The Netherlands
Diego Rovetta	Fugro	The Netherlands
Emer Caslin	iCrag Centre	Ireland
Flora Garofalo	Total Energies	France
Henry Debens	Woodside	Australia
Andrea Cuesta Cano	TU Delft	The Netherlands
Evgeniia Martuganova	TU Delft	The Netherlands

“From our scientific bubble, we think that sharing our research as journal papers is enough. But the public doesn’t understand research papers. If we really want to bring geoscience to the public, we need to take a more proactive approach, engaging with the communities, listening to their worries, and providing what they need from us”

Geologists are natural storytellers, and the work we undertake in unravelling the history of the planets through the rock record is intrinsically about developing a compelling a historical narrative about humanity’s deep past. So the challenge is to remind geoscientists of this and to show how we already use storylines in communicating our technical science.

Questions? Ideas?

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