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Becoming an Actionable Scientist: Challenges, Competency, and the Development of Expertise

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Goolsby, J.B., Cravens, A.E. & Rozance, M.A. Becoming an Actionable Scientist: Challenges, Competency, and the Development of Expertise. Environmental Management (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01863-4

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Demand has grown for actionable science to support real-world decision-making around climate change and related environmental management challenges. Producing actionable science requires scientists to hold a distinct set of competencies, yet relatively little is known about what these competencies are or how to train scientists to develop them. We conducted interviews with mid- and late-career scientists to empirically identify competencies they used when producing actionable science and to understand how they developed those competencies. We describe expertise in terms of 18 competencies—categorised as cognitive, interpersonal, or intrapersonal—that scientists integrated and applied to address the challenges associated with actionable [...]

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  • National CASC
  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers

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