Laura Tenenbaum Keynote Speaker

Former Senior Science Editor of NASA’s Global Climate Change website
Globally recognized innovator in science and climate communication
Five-time Webby Award Winner for Best Science Website

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Laura Tenenbaum's Biography

Laura Faye Tenenbaum is an award-winning globally recognized innovator in science and climate communication. She is the former Senior Science Editor of NASA’s Global Climate Change website at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where she reported on sea level rise, ice mass loss, climate modeling, anthropogenic climate forcing and regional climate impacts. She was chosen to travel to Greenland multiple times with NASA suborbital campaigns to report on new research into the rate of ice mass loss around Greenland’s coastline being studied for the first time.

Tenenbaum has been an adjunct professor in the Physical Science Department at Glendale Community College, where she taught for 13 years. She also wrote, produced and edited an oceanography video series to accompany Pearson Higher Education’s Essentials of Oceanography textbook.

She combines personality, emotionality and a sense of humor with scientific expertise and can translate complex technical scientific jargon into language the public can comprehend without compromising scientific accuracy or nuance. She works to broaden the scientific community by providing new, confrontational and often controversial tools and tips for science education to teachers, students and the public at large. Her goal is to foster a motivated and enthusiastic science literate society that will be ready to take on the huge environmental challenges we face. She was recently interviewed by The Guardian about her experience at NASA.

Tenenbaum lived in Southeast Asia and travelled extensively, which informed, shaped and influenced her perspectives and worldview. She has a MS degree in Marine Science and taught SCUBA in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong.

Read Laura’s story of climate censorship at NASA during Trump in TIME.

Speaking topics include:

Facing Climate Change: How to Re-connect with Planet Earth
Women in science: The past, present and future
Run toward challenges with courage
Greenland’s glaciers on the edge
Science is hard, do it anyway

Game On, Climate Change. Game On. | Laura Tenenbaum | TEDxUCSD

CCCB LAB / PIIC 2017

Comments & Testimonials

Laura was very articulate in communicating her material and respectful to the other panelists who are two highly respected insurance executives. Laura is a captivating, knowledgeable and compelling speaker. After the session many folks rushed over to talk to her and wanted to take their photos with her! I would gladly work with Laura again.

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