The DISP team presenting at the SDG Expo
Four first-year students in Dalhousie Faculty of Science’s Dalhousie Interdisciplinary Science Program (DISP) have been working with postdoc Elson Galang to find new meaning in a survey MES alum Samantha Howard implemented around the Minas Basin a few years ago. With Elson’s mentorship they have done an outstanding job, learning statistical correlations and qualitative coding and applying them to the question of “who cares about climate change?”, one of the parts of the survey that we had not looked that closely at yet. Responses to the 4-question set looking at climate change concern was not normally distributed, which made their job a bit trickier. The good news is that the skew was in the direction of concern rather than ambivalence. The students developed a great poster, including custom art, and presented it to the SDG Expo a few weeks ago (where MES Athena and Anna also presented their work), as well as presenting the work to their peers, instructors in their final assessment, and to passers by in the LSC during a DISP poster session. Thanks to Elson (and TA Bethany) for taking such care in his support of these new scholars. And to the team–Alexandria, Tarika, Dora and Jane–congratulations!
