Media
Media Coverage
Kutz, Jessica. "Groups urge moms to vote with climate change in mind." 19th News. November 7, 2022.
Jonsson, Patrik. "Can country living and a new EV plan coexist? Some Georgians say no." Christian Science Monitor. May 11, 2022.
Faulds, Caitlin. "URI Looks to Tackle Mounting Plastic Pollution with Land-to-Sea Solutions." EcoRI. November 13, 2021.
Veitch, Abbie. "Nature Connectedness and Community Centered Conservation." See The Forest Podcast. January 2021.
Middleton, Arthur & Justin Brasheres. "More Than Twice the Size of Texas: That's how much land Biden wants to conserve over the next decade. But is it possible?" The New York Times. December 21, 2020.
Ropeik, Annie. "COVID And Black Lives Matter Have Spurred Real Change; Why Can’t Climate Change Do The Same?" New Hampshire Public Radio, July 14, 2020.
"New study shows rural westerners strongly support environmental protections." Phys.org, July 14, 2020.
Nosowitz, Dan. "There are Climate Change Policies that Rural Americans - Even Republicans - Support." Modern Farmer, July 9, 2020.
Falwell, Brent. "Rural America as Committed to Environmental Issues as Urban Areas." Morning Consult, April 16, 2020.
Schaffer, Harwood D. and Daryll E. Ray. "Policy Pennings: Rural/urban divide on environmental policies." Aberdeen News, February 28, 2020.
"Where rural and urban Americans divide on the environment—and where there's common ground." Phys.org, February 14, 2020.
Haspel, Elliot. "Millenial Parents are Failing their Children." The New Republic, August 30, 2019.
Ways and Means Podcast, Season 4, Episode 1: How Parenthood Affects Climate Change Skeptics
"Faculty-Student Team Finds Insights on Environmental Attitudes Could Help Lessen Urban-Rural Divide." Duke Environment Magazine, Fall 2018
Talks and Presentations
Maine Climate Table: "The Rural Urban Divide - And What We Can Do About It". March 11, 2021
2024
“Climate Change Framing and Messaging.” Metcalf Institute Annual Immersion Workshop for Journalists. June 7, Narragansett, RI
2024
“Evaluating Messaging, Communication Networks, and Public Engagement on Offshore Wind Development in the Northeast.” URI/NOAA Partnership Gathering. January 17, Virtual.
2023
“Climate Change Framing and Messaging.” Metcalf Institute Annual Immersion Workshop for Journalists. June 13, Narragansett, RI
2023
“Sources, Transport, Exposure, Exposure & Effects of PFAS II” (with R. Lohmann and P. Grandjean). NIEHS Superfund Research Programs – SRP Progress in Research Webinar. May 12. (virtual)
2023
“The Impact of Message Valence on Climate Change Attitudes: A Longitudinal Experiment.” EPA Office of Research and Development. February 21. (virtual)
2022
“Climate Change Framing and Messaging.” Metcalf Institute Annual Immersion Workshop for Journalists. June 7. (virtual)
2022
“Communicating Climate Change & Breaking Partisan Barriers.” Gannett Media/USA Today Environmental Network. January 12. (virtual)
2021
“Climate Change Framing and Messaging.” Metcalf Institute Annual Immersion Workshop for Journalists. June 8. (virtual)
2021
“Personal Identity and Climate Change.” TEDxURI.
2021
“Understanding Rural Attitudes Toward the Environment and Conservation in America.” Maine Climate Table. March 11. (virtual)
2021
“Identities, Framing, and Climate Change Attitudes.” Sustainability Preconference for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social and Political Psychology. February 12. (virtual)
2020
“Climate Change Framing and Messaging.” Metcalf Institute Annual Immersion Workshop for Journalists. June 1. (virtual)
2020
“Rural Identities and Attitudes on Climate Change.” Climate Advocacy Lab’s 8th Research + Experimentation Convening, May 6-7. (virtual).
2020
“Finding Common Ground: Identities, Communication, and Environmental Attitudes in Rural America.” Harrington Forum, University of Rhode Island. November 1. Kingston, RI.
2019
“Beyond Political Ideology: Attitudes Towards Government and Corporations on Trust in Science.” North Carolina State University. April 9, 2019. Raleigh, NC.
2017
“Identity salience and climate change attitudes.” Poster Presentation, North Carolina Legislature Graduate Education Day. May 16. Raleigh, NC.
2016
“Roundtable on the Papal Encyclical.” E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Days. March 3. Durham, NC.
2015
“Climate change: What does Pope Francis have to say? And why does it matter?” Panel Discussion, Duke Divinity School. October 8. Durham, NC.
Policy Briefs
Pechar, Emily & Sierra Smucker. 2017. How Grassroots Engagement across States and Localities Can Advance Progressive Causes in the Era of Trump. Scholars Strategy Network.
Selected Blog Posts
"Linking Carbon." Sense & Sustainability, May 9 2016.
"Shifting Doctrines: The Pope on Climate Change." Sense & Sustainability, June 29, 2015.
"Distrust of Science: Why are Americans so Wary of Scientists?" Sense & Sustainability, March 9, 2015.
"From Lima to Paris: A COP 20 Recap." Sense & Sustainability, December 30, 2014.
"Environmental Policy Outlook: Assessing the midterm elections." Sense & Sustainability, November 17, 2014.
"Coastal Peril: The Unnoticed Costs of Sea Level Rise." Sense & Sustainability, September 15, 2014.
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