Curriculum Vitae Part 4: Selected Convention Papers, Seminars, and Public Presentations
(Complete for the previous six months only)
Updated: 18 Dec 2007
1971
“Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Campus Newspapers,” California Journalism Association, Sacramento, CA (August).
1972
“Chevron with F-310: Effects of Environmental Advertising in the Face of Public Controversy,” Association for Education in Journalism, Carbondale, IL (August).
“Barriers to Effective News Coverage of the Environmental Crisis” (with David M. Rubin), Association for Education in Journalism, Carbondale, IL (August).
1973
“Environmental Policy Making: The Role of the Media” (keynote), Symposium on the Media and the Environment, Rocky Mountain Center on Environment, Midway, UT (October).
1974
“Mass Media and Environmental Persuasion,” Conservation Education Association, Syracuse, NY (August).
“Telling People about Forestry” (two-day workshop), Society of American Foresters, Camp Kett, MI (October).
1975
In re Public Media Center and In re Public Interest Research Group (affidavits on the impact of environmental advertising and the need for Fairness Doctrine relief), Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC (March and August).
1976
“The Missing Link in Health Services: Reaching the Public through the Media,” American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA (April).
“Using the Mass Media for Environmental Change” (four-day workshop), Northern Rockies Action Group, Helena, MT (September).
1977
“Designing a Public Service Advertising Campaign on Solid Waste” (one-day workshop), Environmental Action Foundation, Washington, DC (January).
“The Swine Flu Fiasco: What We Did Wrong,” American College of Physicians, Dallas, TX (April).
1978
“Environmental Communication: The Nuclear Power Controversy” (three-day workshop), Environmental Action Coalition, Toledo, OH (January).
“Medication Versus Communication: The Doctor-Patient Interaction,” American College of Physicians, Boston, MA (April).
1979
“Power, Sexism, and Group Process,” New Jersey Association of Extension Home Economists, Hightstown, NJ (April).
“Nuclear and Environmental Coverage” (panel discussion), Investigative Reporters and Editors, San Mateo, CA (September).
1980
“La Communicación en momentos de crisis: el reportaje de un acidente nuclear” (plenary), International Communication Association, Acapulco, Mexico (May).
“Building Your Membership” (two-day workshop), Northern Rockies Action Group and Colorado Open Space Council, Denver, CO (June).
“Three Mile Island: The Default of Technical Communication” (keynote), Delaware Valley Writing Council, Philadelphia, PA (October).
1981
“Fighting Cancer with Words” (two-day workshop) (with Susan Sachs), American Cancer Society (New Jersey), Wildwood Crest, NJ (June).
“More Than Publicity: Motivating Citizen Action on Toxics,” Waste Alert, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Asilomar, CA (September).
“Doctors on TV: Mythmaking and Medicine,” College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY (October).
1982
“Nuclear Energy and the Media” (with Dixy Lee Ray), Capital Press Women, Washington, DC (January).
“Promoting the Freeze Campaign,” New Jersey SANE, Cranford, NJ (January).
“Mobilizing Citizen Support for Social Change” (two-day workshop), Northern Plains Resource Council, Billings, MT (November).
1983
“Coping with NIMBY: Environmental Communication in the Face of Community Distrust,” New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ (August).
“Using Media Coverage to Build the Movement: The Missing Link Between Lobbyists and Organizers,” Arms Control Lobby Retreat, Council for a Livable World, Coolfont, WV (December).
1984
“Recruiting and Holding Your Volunteers” (keynote), Freeze Voter ’84 State Conference, Piscataway, NJ (February).
“Countering Children’s Sugared Food Commercials: Do Rebuttals Help?” (with Lois Kaufman), International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA (May). ERIC No. ED247633.
“Covering Science and Environment: The Journalism of Uncertainty” (keynote), Conference on Covering Environmental Issues, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (November).
1985
“Environmental Risk Reporting: A Hypothetical Scenario” (moderator), Society of Professional Journalists—Sigma Delta Chi, Piscataway, NJ (March).
“Nuclear Weapons, Public Policy, and the Media” (with Edward Teller, Robert Manoff, and Peter Pringle), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Memphis, TN (August).
“Communicating Risk to the Public,” National Governors’ Association, Washington, DC (October).
1986
“Trust and Credibility: The Central Issue” (panel) and “Risk Communication: The Case of Nuclear Power” (panel), National Conference on Risk Communication (Conservation Foundation, National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Washington, DC (January).
“The Engineer-Reporter Interaction: How to Be a Technical Source,” National Society of Professional Engineers,“ New York, NY (September).
“Environmental Dispute Resolution: Weighing the Alternatives” (with Richard T. Dewling and Richard J. Gimello), League of Women Voters and New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, Edison, NJ (October).
1987
“The Public’s Role in Risk Communication” (keynote), Workshop on the Role of Government in Health Risk Communication and Public Education, Interagency Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease, Alexandria, VA (January).
“Risk Communication Seminar for New England State Commissioners” (one-day workshop) (with Caron Chess and Baruch Fischhoff), Northeast Regional Environmental Public Health Center, Amherst, MA (June).
“Underestimation and Overestimation in Radon Risk Perception” (with Neil D. Weinstein and M.L. Klotz), American Psychological Association, New York, NY (August).
1988
“Communicating about Risk: Dealing with Public Outrage,” Board of Directors Meeting, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Boca Raton, FL (January).
“Addressing Community Outrage” and “Explaining Risk Numbers,” Title III Communication Workshops, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Newark, NJ, Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Houston, TX, New Orleans, LA, and San Francisco, CA (February-March).
“Hazard Versus Outrage: The Case of Radon,” 1988 Symposium on Science Communication, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (December).
1989
“Covering Environmental Controversies: The Hazard and the Outrage,” Investigative Reporters and Editors, Philadelphia, PA (June).
“Radon Communication: Encouraging a Risk-Appropriate Response,” National Environmental Health Conference, Centers for Disease Control and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, San Antonio, TX (June).
“Hazard Versus Outrage: AIDS, Infectious Diseases, and Public Perception” (one-day workshop), Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA (August).
1990
“Risk Communication for State Health Officials” (one-day training workshop with Caron Chess), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Newark, NJ (March) and Denver, CO (April).
“Hazard Versus Outrage: Responding to Public Concerns about Industrial Risks” (keynote), American Industrial Hygiene Association, Orlando, FL (May).
“Addressing Skepticism about Responsible Care®,” Chemical Manufacturers Association, New York, NY (November).
1991
“Apathy Versus Hysteria, Science Versus Drama: What Works in Radon Risk Communication,” 1991 International Symposium on Radon and Radon Reduction Technology, Philadelphia, PA (April).
“Public Concerns about Drinking Water Quality: Toward a Proactive Communication Strategy” (two-day seminar), American Water Works Association, Chicago, IL (November).
“Introductory Risk Communication Seminar” (one-day seminar), Australian Institute of Petroleum, Manly, NSW, Australia (December).
1992
“Risk Communication and Organizational Change: Helping Clients Move from Stonewalling to Dialogue,” Roy F. Weston, Inc., Philadelphia, PA (January).
“Hazard Versus Outrage: Responding to Public Concerns about Nuclear Power Risks,” Annual Senior Executive Conference, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Timonium, MD (February).
“Siting a Low-Level Nuclear Waste Facility: The Voluntary Approach” (half-day seminar), National Low-Level Waste Management Program, Connecticut Hazardous Waste Management Service, Windsor Locks, CT (October).
1993
“Acknowledgement and Accountability: The Toughest Components of Community Involvement in Environmental Protection,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, MA (February).
“Communication Across Power Imbalances: Employee Relations Lessons from Risk Communication,” Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, Maastricht, The Netherlands (May).
“Risk = Hazard Plus Outrage: Covering Both Sides of the Environmental Risk Story,” Foundation for American Communications, Columbus, OH, (September), Houston, TX (November).
1994
“Risk = Hazard + Outrage: Risk Communication, Controversy, and Worst Case Scenarios” (two-day seminar), The Institute Plant, Rhône-Poulenc, and West Virginia State College, Charleston, WV (April).
“Risk = Hazard + Outrage: Responding to Silicones Controversy” (one-day seminar), Global Silicones Council, Milan, Italy (May).
“Perception, Science, and Public Policy: The Risk Question (with John Graham),” Plenary Presentation, American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition, Anaheim, CA (May).
1995
“Beyond the Manual: Attitude Dimensions of Employee Safety,” Global Marine Drilling Company, Houston, TX (February).
“Communicating Brownfield Development: The Dynamics of Outrage” (keynote presentation), The Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA (April).
“EMF Risk Communication: What to Do When Things are Quiet,” Edison Electric Institute, Cambridge, MA (October).
1996
“Risk = Hazard + Outrage: Nigeria, Brent Spar, and Shell’s Response,” Public Affairs Conference, Shell International Ltd., Ascot, England (January).
“Risk = Hazard + Outrage: Responding to Public Concerns about Risk,” Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), Chicago, IL (October).
In re Hamburger Patty Cases (deposition on risk communication implications of 1993 Jack-in-the-Box food poisoning outbreak), Los Angeles, CA (November).
1997
“Hazard, Outrage, and Employee Relations: Risk Communication inside BHP Petroleum” (one-day workshop), BHP Petroleum, Darwin, NT, Australia and Perth, WA, Australia (March).
“The PVC/Vinyl Draft Communications Plan: Sell versus Hide versus Acknowledge,” Chlorine Chemistry Council Board of Directors and Vinyl Institute Executive Board, Arlington, VA (September).
“Is There Economic/Shareholder Value in Environmental Performance and Social Responsibility? — A Risk Communication Perspective,” Noranda, Inc., Toronto, ON (November).
1998
“Outrage, Hazard, and Climate Change,” American Petroleum Institute, Washington DC (January).
“Environmental Justice and Chemical Plant Siting,” Dow Chemical Company, Washington DC (March).
“Responding to Outrage about Chemicals: A Risk Communication Approach to Product Stewardship,” Product Stewardship Implementation Workshop, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Orlando, FL (October).
“The Free Ride Is Over: Coping with Outrage about the Australian Minerals Industry” (keynote address), Minerals Council of Australia, Melbourne, Vic., Australia (October).
1999
“Coping with Chemical Outrage: Risk Communication for Responsible Care’s Second Decade” (keynote address), Responsible Care Conference, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Orlando, FL (April).
“Risk Communication and Endocrine Disruption: The Problem Is Outrage (and Terror), Not Apathy,” Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI (August).
“GMOs: How Can We Get Back on Course?” (with Carl Feldbaum and Fred L. Smith, Jr.), National Conference for CEOs of Ag Biotech Companies, Burrill & Company, Dana Point, CA (October).
2000
“Getting the Credit for Corporate Responsibility,” World Economic Forum, Private Meeting of Chief Executives from the Mining and Metals Industry, Davos, Switzerland (January).
“Beyond Training: Psychological and Cultural Aspects of Safety” (half-day seminar), Petroleum Industry Annual Safety Seminar, Banff, Alberta, Canada (May).
“An Outrage Approach to Reputation Management: Why Does Everyone Hate the Chemical Industry, and What Can You Do about It,” CEFIC (European Chemical Manufacturers Association), Venice, Italy (June).
“Risk Communication about a Possible WMD Crisis: The Role of Denial,” Workshop on Human Behavior and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and U.S. Joint Forces Command, McLean, VA (December).
2001
“Managing Outrage about Health Care Controversies” (one-day seminar), Novartis International AG, Basel, Switzerland (March).
“Outrage Management and the Legal Process in Risk Controversies,” Environmental Law Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association, Philadelphia, PA (April).
“Anthrax, Bioterrorism, and Risk Communication: Guidelines for Action,” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA (November).
“Responding to Outrage in Customer Relations Correspondence” (two-day seminar), B2S Corp., London, UK (November-December).
2002
“Risk = Hazard + Outrage: Epidemiology and Risk Communication in Mid-Controversy” (one-day seminar), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Kansas City, MO (June).
“Responsible Care in the Community. Been There. Done That. What’s Next?” (keynote address), Canadian Chemical Producers’ Association, Niagara on Lake, ON (June).
“Communicating about the Risk of Bioterrorism” (half-day seminar), Minnesota Community Health Conference, Minnesota Department of Health, Brainerd, MN (September).
“Risk Communication in Cell Tower Controversies” (half-day seminar), Mobile Telecoms Advisory Group, Federation of the Electronics Industry, London, UK (September).
2003
“Calming the Storm: Communicating with the Public During a Disaster” (two-day seminar), San Diego County Department of Health, San Diego, CA (June).
“Risk Communication Fundamentals for Intelligence Analysts” (half-day seminar),
Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC (August).
“Stakeholder Outrage: Applying Risk Communication to Utility Rates and Corporate
Finances” (one-day seminar), Aquila, Kansas City, MO (September).
“Risk Communication Recommendations for Infectious Disease Outbreaks,”
World Health Organization SARS Scientific Research Advisory Committee, Geneva, Switzerland (October).
“Outrage Management, Industrial Expansion, and First Nations” (one-day
seminar), Suncor Energy, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada (December).
2004
“Food Risk Communication: Responding to Apathy, to Outrage and to Crisis — And Why We Usually Get It Wrong!” (plenary presentation), Food Safety Summit (Eaton Hall), Washington DC (March).
“Risk Communication and Employee Outrage” (three half-day seminars), CH2M Hanford Group, Pasco WA (May).
“National Risk Communications Workshop on Pandemic Influenza” (facilitator and presenter, two-day seminar), Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (June).
“Communicating Risk to an Anxious Public,” Department of Homeland Security TOPOFF-3 National Seminar on Public Affairs, Silver Spring MD (October).
“Crisis Communication: Guidelines for Action” (with Jody Lanard) (one-day seminar), World Health Organization Southeast Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India (December).
2005
“Pandemic Influenza Pre-Crisis Communication: Choosing the Messages,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington DC (March).
“Managing Outrage about Gold Mining Controversies” (with Jody Lanard) (two one-day seminars), Newmont Mining Corp., Jakarta and Batu Hijau, Indonesia (May).
“Addressing Outrage about Mobile Telephones and Base Stations: Some Innovative Approaches” (half-day seminar), Vodafone, Lisbon, Portugal (July).
“Risk Communication: Addressing Public Concern in Risk Controversies and Real Crises” (two-day seminar), World Health Organization European Country Officers, Bucharest, Romania (September).
“Advising Senior Ministers on Crisis Communications,” Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (October).
“Responsible versus Responsive: Some Counter-Intuitive Approaches to Reputation in Minerals Industry Risk Controversies” (keynote address), 2005 Sustainable Development Conference, Minerals Council of Australia, Alice Springs, Australia (November).
2006
“Communicating the Risk of Pandemic Influenza to Employees, Customers, Investors, Suppliers, and Everybody Else,” Business Planning for Pandemic Influenza: A National Summit Conference,” Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (University of Minnesota), U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, Minneapolis MN (February).
“Risk Communication and Outrage Management in Police-Community Relations” (two-day seminar), Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Charlotte NC (February).
“Risk Communication: Addressing Public Concern in Risk Controversies and Real Crises” (two-day seminar), King County Office of Emergency Management, Bellevue WA (April).
“Outrage Management in Community Controversies” (three two-day seminars), Rio Tinto, Perth, Melbourne, and Brisbane, Australia (May–June).
“Risk Communication: Responding to Stakeholder Concerns in Fire-Related (and other) Controversies” (two-day seminar), Fire & Emergency Management Division, Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne, Australia (June).
“Outrage Management Seminar: Coping with Past and Current Controversies” (two-day seminar), Talisman Energy, Calgary, Canada (June).
“Outrage Management and Crisis Communication” (two-day seminar), U.S. Postal Service, Paterson NJ (September).
“Crisis Communication for Emergency Response Professionals,” Big City Emergency Managers’ Forum Meeting, Council for Excellence in Government, Brooklyn NY (September).
“Outrage and Facility Siting,” Nestlé Waters North America Siting Summit, Singer Island FL (October).
“Retooling for Risk Communication: From PR to Outrage Management,” National Public Relations, Toronto, Canada (November).
“Risk Perception, Risk Communication, and Risk Reporting: The Role of Each in Pandemic Preparedness,” Conference on The Next Big Health Crisis – and How to Cover It, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, Cambridge MA (December).
“Risk Communication, Crisis Communication, and Outrage Management” (one-day seminar), Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington DC (December).
2007
“Risk Communication, Outrage Management, and Crisis Communication” (one-day seminar), City of Seattle, Seattle WA (January).
“Internal Pandemic Communications: What to Say to Employees – and When” (with Jody Lanard), Business Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza Second National Summit, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (University of Minnesota), Orlando FL (February).
“Why Employees and Employers Sometimes Ignore Safety When They Know Better – And What to Do About It,” ORC Worldwide Occupational Safety and Health Quarterly Meeting, Washington DC (February).
“Outrage Management and Land Use Controversies” (half-day seminar), Plum Creek Timber Company 2007 Management Conference, Scottsdale AZ (March).
“Risk Communication Primer for Pandemic Preparedness Planners,” Partners in Corporate Preparedness Conference, Roche Laboratories Inc., Nutley NJ (March).
“Crisis Communication: Talking to People about an RDD Attack,” TOPOFF-4 National Seminar on Public Information, Washington DC (April).
“Crisis Communication: Talking to Anxious People about Serious Food Risks” (one-day seminar), Guelph Food Technology Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada (April).
“Talking to Vaccination Skeptics: Risk Communication and Immunization Education,” Immunization Education Initiative Nurse Speakers Training Forum, King City, Ontario, Canada (April).
“Crisis Communication: An Introduction for Public Health Governmental Organizations” (half-day seminar) (with Jody Lanard), International Association of National Public Health Institutes, Beijing, China (April).
“Crisis Communication Workshop” (one-day seminar) (with Jody Lanard), World Health Organization/China, Beijing, China (April).
“Food Risk Communication: Gauging the Hazard, Managing the Outrage,” College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (May).
“The Two Faces of Pandemic Risk Communication: Alerting People Now and Helping Them Cope When It Happens,” School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (May).
“Introduction to Risk Communication: Hazard, Outrage, and Food Controversies” (half-day seminar), Cargill, Minneapolis, MN (May).
“Why Employees Sometimes Ignore Safety When They Know Better – and What to Do About It” (half-day seminar), Entergy Corp., Beaumont TX, Baton Rouge LA, Jackson MI, and Little Rock AR (May).
“Pandemic Flu Risk Communication: Where Do We Go from Here?” (one-day seminar), Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin TX (August).
“Managing Outrage about Plum Creek’s Plan for Moosehead Lake,” Plum Creek Timber Company, Portland ME (September).
“Reputation Management and Risk Communication,” Orange and Rockland Utilities, Bear Mountain NY (September).
“Risk Communication in Site Remediation Controversies” (half-day seminar), Honeywell Site Remediation Meeting, Morris Township NJ (September).
“Pandemic and Pre-Pandemic Risk Communication” (half-day seminar), Monsanto Company, St. Louis MO (October).
“Why Employees (and Employers) Sometimes Ignore Safety When They Know Better – and What to Do about It” (half-day seminar), Con Edison of New York, Brooklyn NY (October).
“Risk Communication, Crisis Communication, and Outrage Management: Fundamentals of Reputation Management” (one-day seminar), Public Affairs Council, Washington DC (October).
“The Risk Communication Response to Mining/Minerals Controversies” (one-day seminar), Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Perth, WA, Australia (October).
“High Hazard, High Outrage: Talking to People in Crisis Situations” (half-day seminar), Water Corporation, Leederville, WA, Australia (October).
“Risk = Hazard + Outrage: Where Risk Communication Typically Goes Wrong,” Water Corporation, Leederville, WA, Australia (October).
“Risk Communication Fundamentals: A Practical Approach,” Water Corporation, Leederville, WA, Australia (October).
“Risk Communication and Controversies over Water Supply and Water Quality” (two one-day seminars), Water Corporation, Leederville, WA, Australia (October).
“Outrage about Outrage Management: Selling Counterintuitive PR Approaches to Corporate Leadership,” Public Relations Institute of Australia Annual Meeting, Sydney, NSW, Australia (October).
“Risk = Hazard + Outrage: Risk Communication and/in/versus Public Relations” (keynote address), Public Relations Institute of Australia Annual Meeting, Sydney, NSW, Australia (October).
“Risk Communication and Outrage Management in Environmental Controversies” (half-day seminar), Senior Executive Briefing, Environmental Protection Authority of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic, Australia (October).
“Watch Out: Introduction to Precaution Advocacy,” Environmental Protection Authority of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic, Australia (October).
“Risk Communication and Outrage Management in Environmental Controversies” (one-day seminar), Environmental Protection Authority of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic, Australia (October).
“Outrage Management at Priority Premises” (one-day seminar), Environmental Protection Authority of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic, Australia (October).
“Risk Communication Fundamentals: When Public Outrage Is a Banking Hazard,” ANZ Bank, Melbourne, Vic, Australia (October).
“Talking to Mining Employees about Safety: When Training Isn’t Enough” (half-day seminar), Newcrest Mining, Melbourne, Vic, Australia (October).
“Risk Communication, Outrage Management, and Pharmaceutical Controversies” (one-day seminar), GlaxoSmithKline, Boronia, Vic, Australia (October).
“Bushfire Prevention and Risk Communication: Using Precaution Advocacy to Build a Fire Prevention Constituency” (two-day seminar), Fire & Emergency Management Division, Victoria Department of Sustainability & Environment, Geelong, Vic, Australia (October).
“Risk Communication and Outrage Management: When Stakeholders Are More Upset Than Endangered” (two-day seminar), International Association for Public Participation, Scottsdale, AZ (November).
“Risk Communication and Outrage Management: Addressing Concerns about Kennecott Copper and Kennecott Land” (two-day seminar), Kennecott Utah Companies, Daybreak UT (November).
“Risk Communication and Outrage Management: Addressing Concerns about Resolution” (two-day seminar), Resolution Cooper Mining, Gold Canyon AZ (November).
“Risk Communication and Outrage Management: Addressing Concerns about La Granja” (two-day seminar), Rio Tinto Minera Perú Limitada, Chiclayo Peru (December).