Agathe Toumoulin, PhD

Science communication work

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Dec. 2021 | Invited speaker for a public debate on climate change organized by the ecologist representatives of Rouen municipality, with Member of the European Parliament Marie Toussaint. Talk on deep-time climate evolution and variability, present day manifestations of climate change and the key findings of the latest IPCC report (2021).

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2021 | Two blog posts for the science communication blog Time Scavengers (https://timescavengers.blog/). The first one, as part of their 'meet the scientist' publication series, to explain my work (apr. 2021), the second one to present the conference which I attended thanks to the Tilly Edinger Travel Grant (jun. 2021).

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2020 – ... |Member of the scientific board of the scientific outreach association, Cosciences (https://cosciences.net/)

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2017 – 2019 | Popular Science activities (CEREGE and Aix-Marseille University, France).

Design and animation of workshops for primary and middle school students on (1) plant biodiversity of the Mediterranean pine forest (recognition of local plants and ethnobotany) and, (2) climate modelling (model concept, mechanisms for regulating the earth's temperature). Participation in several open discussions on scientific research with secondary school students.

 

2014 – 2015 | Scientific communicator at the Museum (Toulouse, France, 17.5 hours/week).
Animation of different guided tours and workshops: e.g., discovery of the whole museum, of the botanical garden and/or the tropical greenhouses, workshops on biodiversity and scientific approach discovery (for 3-8 years and 8-14 years old children respectively).

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