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| Graphic recording by Amy Sparks of A Visual Spark (1/17/2019) |
On January 17, 2018 Emily Graslie delivered the keynote address at the Speaking Science Conference at the University of Minnesota. Emily is the chief curiosity correspondent at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. She originally started as a landscape painter who fell in love with the objects in the zoological Museum at the University of Montana.
On a three day trip to the Field Museum of Chicago to film episodes for her Brain Scoop YouTube channel, the Field Museum staff offered her a job to work there.
Emily's advice to scientists is to identify your audience, use the language your audience uses, and modify the tone based on the audience. Brain Scoop made two separate videos on speciation. They produced the first video for a senior high school and freshman college audience. The second video used candy to represent species with middle school students as the target audience.
Candy Taxonomy - Emily Graslie presentation
Emily let her curiosity guide her career. She stepped out of her narrow role as an artist and moved into unexplored territory that gave her greater meaning.
Sample Science Scoop Videos below.
Meet Emily Graslie - Chief curiosity correspondent - Field Museum - 6 min.
Rodents of Unusual Size - 7 min.
What is the Function? - an engineer attempts to guess the function of animal parts - 8 minutes
The Value of Curiosity - Emily Graslie - TED Talk - 13 minutes
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