Danielle Cossarini attended the ASIST&T annual conference – “Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem” – as the winner of the 2010 New England Chapter of ASIS&T Graduate Student Travel Award . For more, go to: http://neasist.org/2010/06/04/2010-neasist-student-travel-award-competit…
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Research Team Member Wins Student Travel Award
Congratulations to Danielle Cossarini who has won the 2010 New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (NEASIS&T) Student Travel Award for her paper, “Communicating Scientific Information for Environmental Solutions: A Knowledge Management Perspective.” The jury chair stated that Danielle “wrote a truly excellent paper that deserves this recognition.” The award will support […]
Coastal Zone Canada 2010 – Healthy Oceans – Strong Coastal Communities, Charlottetown, 25-29 July 2010
The EIUI research team was represented at the Coastal Zone Canada 2010 conference in Charlottetown by Dr. Bertrum MacDonald who participated in the workshop “Information Management for Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management” on Tuesday, 27 July. In addition, the research team presented the poster “From Science to Policy Making: Investigating the Use and Influence of Marine Environmental […]
Workshop on CRIS, CERIF and Institutional Repositories, National Research Council Rome, 10-11 May 2010
At the European workshop on “Maximizing the Benefit of Research Information for Researchers, Research Managers, Entrepreneurs and the Public,” Bertrum MacDonald gave the presentation (co-authored with Peter Wells), “Intergovernmental Organizations and the Challenge of Document Description and Repositories.” This invitation-only workshop was organized by euroCRIS, a professional association on Current Research Information Systems, and custodian […]
Master’s Student Receives Two Awards
Gregory Hutton received two awards for papers arising from the his Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) thesis. He received the New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Best Paper in Information Science Award for a paper entitled, “Scientific Grey Literature in a Digital Age: Measuring Its Use and […]
OCEANS OF INFORMATION: RECOGNIZING THE CHALLENGE
Earth’s coastal and ocean ecosystems face many serious problems as human populations continue to grow and demand for natural resources intensifies in the 21st century. To find and adopt timely solutions, information must be managed, made accessible, and communicated to managers, practitioners, citizens, and policy and decision-makers in government, industry, and non-profit sectors.
STUDYING THE USE AND INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION
In a time of rapid technological advancements, we are examining the dissemination, awareness of, access to, and use and influence of information in public policy and decision-making processes. Understanding how information flows, or does not flow, can lead to insights and recommendations to maximize the use and influence of information in policy and decision-making.
UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACE
Our emphasis is placed on understanding the complex science-policy interface(s): the informational crossroads between research and policy. Particularly, we are exploring how information produced in the field, e.g., by scientists or resource managers, is discovered and used by policy and decision-makers.