NEW DELHI: At the 9th NYC Green School Conference, California-based sustainability consultant and microplastics scientist Dr. Jennifer Brandon urged educators to embrace creativity and communication in climate education, sharing her unique journey as one of the few scientists to hold a postdoctoral fellowship in science communication.

“I ended up doing my postdoc at the University of California, San Diego,” Dr. Brandon recalled.

“Across the 11 campuses of the University of California, there is only one postdoc like the one I did, which is in science communication. The reason we’re able to do it at UC San Diego is that we have our own aquarium—it’s called Birch Aquarium at Scripps. And across the 11 campuses, there are actually only two places that are open science communication centers—B

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