Making Connections

How SageSTEP connects scientists and managers

LAEL GILBERTSAGESTEP OUTREACH COORDINATOR

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

No one works in a vacuumManaging can get messy!

No one works in a vacuum!

Translational ScienceScience that is both useful and usable

Translational Science

Translational Medicine

A way to ensure that scientifically-proven strategies for disease treatment and prevention were actually implemented

Focus on collaborations between researchers and clinicians

Increase the speed at which new treatments reach patients.

Translational Ecology

Emerging field in natural resources

Connects stakeholders to scientists

Recognizes that science doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

Ecological research needs to be applicable

Mutual learning

One-way “communication”

Scientist

People

Science

Vita Wright, Northern Rockies Fire Science Exchange

Diffusion of Innovation

Awareness

Understanding

Ownership

Fitting the idea or technique into your current understanding.

SageSTEP outreach designed to target multiple stages

SageSTEP Outreach

• Anchor of outreach program• Active throughout project• Updated frequently• Contains detailed information

Website

• Issued three times per year• 436 subscribers, plus forwards and shares• Share information in a timely way

Newsletter

• Most valuable event• Understanding problem first hand• Information sharing and receiving• Building trust, forming relationships

Field Tours

SageSTEP Outreach

• 1700 live and recorded views• Field questions and feedback• Learn to use appropriate language

Webinars

• Produced in response to specific questions and needs• Share information in a timely, easy-to-digest way

Factsheets

• A large number of conferences, workshops, symposia• Posters, presentations• Getting out the word

Events

SageSTEP Outreach

• User's Guides for Western Juniper & Pinyon‐Juniper woodlands

• Two pictorial fuel guides

• Field guide for interest group concerns

• Pocket guides for sagebrush and birds

Guides

• 46 peer-reviewed papers• 250 papers, poster, and proceedings

Papers

• Something we are trying• Allow people to network with each other through our Facebook group.

Social Media

SageSTEP Outreach Principles

• We expect scientists to take on the task of sharing information

• We help them do that

• Overcome language and cultural barriers between scientists and stakeholders.

Work in Teams

• Listen and incorporate information as much as we share it.

• Trust the on-the-ground knowledge managers have.

Two-way Communicati

on

• Don’t wait for papers to be reviewed and appear in journals

• Try to view uncertainty in non-science terms

Quick Dissemination

Great Basin Fire

Science Exchange

Great Basin Research & Manageme

nt Partnership

Ecologically-Based

Invasive Plant

Management

SageSTEP OutreachWhat could we do better?Questions or Comments?