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Editorial: Geoscience communication – planning to make it publishable
Geography and Environment, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK
GC executive editor
Katharine E. Welsh
Department of Geography and International Development, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ, UK
GC editor
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Konsulent Stiller-Reeve, Valestrandsfossen, Norway
Center for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
GC editor
Rebecca K. Priestley
Centre for Science in Society, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
GC editor
Heidi A. Roop
Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, USA
GC editor
Tiziana Lanza
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
GC editor
Sam Illingworth
Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, EH11 4BN, UK
GC chief-executive editor
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Task Processor
Task Meaning. The themes involved in the
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Enjoyable,
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In this editorial we expand upon the brief advice in the first editorial of Geoscience Communication (Illingworth et al., 2018), illustrating what constitutes robust and publishable work for this journal and elucidating its key elements. Our aim is to help geoscience communicators plan a route to publication and to illustrate how good engagement work that is already being done might be developed into publishable research.
In this editorial we expand upon the brief advice in the first editorial of Geoscience...
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