Recent Speaking Engagements

Use your skills to join the climate fight
Montana State University guest lecture, April 2026

Data centers: What communities need to know
Panel discussion, Gallatin Gateway, MT, March 2026

Cultural Studies Podcast
Karin Kirk on skiing, science journalism, climate change, geology, and data centers, March 2026

Data centers in Montana
Climate Smart Montana webinar, February 2026

Stepping up as a science communicator
Winter Conference on Brain Research, Big Sky, MT, February 2026

Workshop: Effective Climate Conversations
Climate Generation Summer Institute, 2025

What the *** are they thinking?
Latest Results from Public Opinion Research on Climate Change
NASA Earth Science communications meeting, May 2025

Green Jobs Outlook
Montana State University, April 2025

Sometimes the most impactful science conversations don't have that much to do with science
Michigan Tech Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute Seminar, November 2024

Visual Science Communication
Michigan Tech guest lecture
Scientific Communication class, November 2024

People actually want to hear more about climate change, and you can help them
Montana's National Weather Service Climate Conference, November 2024

Persuasive Climate Change Communication
Montana State University guest lecture
Ecological Responses to Climate Change class, October 2024

Exciting Happenings in Public Opinion on Climate Change
NASA Earth Science communications staff retreat, September 2024

Workshop: Effective Climate Conversations
Climate Generation Summer Institute, 2024

How to talk to policymakers (and not be dismissed, forgotten, or scoffed at)
American Psychological Association panel on Addressing Climate Change: State and Local Policy Opportunities, May 2024

A New Landscape for Green Jobs
Montana State University, April 2024

Good Conversations are a Superpower
Hamline University guest workshop
Theories and Models of Climate Change Education, April 2024

Teaching About Climate and Energy
CLEAN Webinar, February 2024

Past Speaking Engagements

  • Panelist, Careers in Climate
    Montana State University Climate Week, November 2023

    Workshop Leader: Good Conversations are a Superpower
    Climate Generation Summer Institute, July 2023

    I Knocked On 1300 Doors in a Red State to Talk About Climate and Energy. Here’s What I Learned and What You Can Do. 
    Citizens Climate Lobby, April 2023

    Visual Science Communication
    Michigan Tech guest lecture
    Scientific Communication class, March 2023

    Teaching About Climate Consequences
    CLEAN Webinar, February 2023

    Teaching About Climate and Energy
    CLEAN Webinar, February 2023

  • It’s Us: Humans as agents of change within Earth’s climate system
    CLEAN Webinar, October, 2022

    What is Climate Change – and how do we know it when we see it?
    Healthy Living Healthy Planet Radio, September 2022

    Workshop Leader, Persuasive Climate Conversations 
    Global Fund for Women, June 2022

    Wind Energy in Montana
    Montana State University guest lecturePolitical Science class, October 2021

    Panelist, Communicating Climate Change
    ScienceWriters 2020 conference, October 2020

    Panelist: Communicating with Any Audience About Climate Change
    American Geophysical Union webinar, October 2020

    “I'm ashamed I believed this stuff.” Insights from people who changed their minds about climate change
    The Paleontological Research Institution Virtual Pub, July 2020

    “I'm ashamed I believed this stuff.” Insights from people who changed their minds about climate change
    American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2019

    Unusual but not impossible: Strategies for productive conversations about climate change on Facebook
    AGU Fall Meeting invited talk 2019

    Don’t look now but you’re doing science: An unlikely avenue for bringing science literacy to the natural stone industry
    AGU Fall Meeting, invited talk December 2019

    “For Me It Was When I Saw a Simple Chart”
    Former Climate Contrarians Recount What Changed Their Minds 
    AGU Fall Meeting, December 2017

    Why People Change Their Hard-Rooted Opinions
    Interview on NPR’s Here & Now radio program, May 2017

    Healing the Divide on Climate Change
    TEDx Bozeman, April 2016