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Empowering Communities: Interdisciplinary Scientists Enhance Local Water Quality Awareness

Learn how a team of interdisciplinary scientists collaborated to address water quality issues in Delaware County, engaging students in field sampling, laboratory analysis, interviews, and multimedia production. The project's impact on the community was significant, with data shared on a public website and utilized by local organizations for real-world solutions. By merging science and media, students gained valuable insights into both disciplines and contributed to the community's understanding of water quality challenges.

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Empowering Communities: Interdisciplinary Scientists Enhance Local Water Quality Awareness

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  1. Informing the public through multimedia outlets:How a team of interdisciplinary scientists aided in the understanding of local water quality issues Kelly Borgmann and Dylan Hayes

  2. Background • In November of 2011 Dr. Adam Kuban approached Dr. Lee Florea to talk about the problems between journalism and science. • In the spring of 2013 they started a Ball State Immersive Learning course through the BBC.

  3. They interviewed students and put together a team of journalism and science students to study water quality in Delaware County

  4. Background • Building Better Communities (BBC) • teams of students work with communities, businesses, and government agencies to develop real-world solutions to real-world problems • engage participants in an active learning process that is student-driven but guided by a faculty mentor

  5. Background Our community partner, FlatLand Resources

  6. Background Why water quality?

  7. Methods • What we did: • Field Sampling • Laboratory Analysis • Interviews and Media Production

  8. Results:Our website All our data and publications were collected and put on a website.

  9. Discussion:Why use multi-media • Accessibility • Use by multiple organizations • Future expansion

  10. Discussion:Merging Science and Media • 15 students representing 6 majors worked on this project. • Everyone participated in both the scientific and media tasks. • Media students learned about the science behind water quality • Science students learned how to interview and present information in an engaging way.

  11. Discussion:Community Impact • Website hosted on the Soil Water Resources webpage • Data collected used by Flatland Resources • Conference presentations • Story on Indiana Public Radio

  12. Questions?

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