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GC TOOLKIT INTERVIEW TEMPLATE

2013 Version

Everyone should ask some of these questions -- the ones you liked best are bolded.
Feel free to add additional ones as they occur to you during the interview itself.

About Global Change Research

1. What global change-related projects are you working on? How do you involve graduate students in your research?

2. How necessary is it to interact interdisciplinarily in your research? What disciplines are involved in your research? What are the "plusses and minuses" of doing interdisciplinary research?

3. What do you view as the really exciting questions and opportunities in Global Change research?

4. What is your definition of Global Change?

Advice for Graduate Students

5. What is your best advice for a bright and eager global change scientist "in training" here at the University of Arizona?

6. How do you feel about the job opportunities over the next 20 years . . or should we just get out now?

7. If you could go back to the start of your career what would you do differently?

About Personal Response to Global Change

8. How much do you think about the "big picture" of global change in your day-to-day research and teaching activities?

9. Do you think that global change research is fulfilling the needs of society? If not, should it? If not, and it should . . . how could it?

10. What incentives and/or disincentives act upon you in deciding whether to engage in advocacy based on your global change research?

11. What is your biggest concern for the future of the Earth as a result of global climate change?

12. Do you feel your personal behavior has changed because of what you are discovering in your global change research?

About Effective Communication of the Science on Global Change

13. What recommendations do you have for the climate change community after climategate? With today’s internet blogosphere spreading misinformation, how do you recommend we get the right message out as a community?