What happens when you don't have a public that's informed is there's no political will to actually move forward on those things. It's kind of hard to sit there and poke your finger in blame at commercial fisherman for the ills of the ocean if you're sitting around eating sashimi Bluefin Tuna. With help from its Environmental Studies Program, we're produced at the Whitaker Center at Florida Gulf Coast University and funded by the Southwest Florida Council for Environment Education. Taking science to the public I'm Kevin Pierce with the Florida Environment. Florida Marine Biologist Felicia Coleman is one of 20 top scientists taking part in a program to uncomplicate some of science's messages about the environment.
Some scientists can only speak either in scientific terms or in agency-type jargon.
And the message is lost. I know scientists who feel like that's not their job. Their job is simply to do good science, which of course it always is, and then to put it into the literature. I have some obligations to make sure that the research I do that's funded by state agencies and federal agencies, is available. And that means going a little further than just publishing it in peer-reviewed journals.