Communications
USGCRP Cross-cutting Activity

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Communications

Overview

Recent Accomplishments

Near-Term Plans

CCSP / USGCRP Communications Working Group Members

For long term plans, see Communications chapter of the Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program (2003) posted on CCSP web site.

CCSP, in its vision for the program, identified communications as one of four core approaches for achieving its five overarching scientific goals. CCSP is committed to communicating with interested partners in the United States and throughout the world, and to learning from these partners on a continuing basis. As an essential part of its mission, CCSP stresses openness and transparency in its findings and reports.

The Communications Interagency Working Group (CIWG), established during FY 2004, develops and executes an implementation plan each year that focuses on disseminating the results of CCSP activities credibly and effectively, and making CCSP science findings and products easily available to a diverse set of audiences. Elements of the implementation plan for calendar year 2007 include:

• Media Relations. When requested by the CCSP Director, assist in communicating on climate science issues.
• Public Outreach. Develop materials and methods for public outreach on issues related to climate science and the activities and products of CCSP.
• Web Sites. Develop and advance a strategy for improving, integrating, and promoting the content of web sites operated or supported by CCSP and its participating agencies, recognizing that the sites are essential communication and outreach tools.

The Climate Change Science Program Office (CCSPO), funded and supervised by the agencies and departments participating in CCSP, supports the program's communications goals, along with members of the CIWG. CCSPO assists the CIWG, coordinates preparation of the annual Our Changing Planet report to Congress as well as other reports, and is responsible for managing the program's interagency web sites.