| Title | GeoHab's role in the presentation of scientific facts, a global challenge |
| Download | Download (whole publication) |
| Author | Greene, H G |
| Source | Program and abstracts: 2017 GeoHab Conference, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; by Todd, B J; Brown, C J; Lacharité, M; Gazzola, V; McCormack, E; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8295, 2017 p. 53,
https://doi.org/10.4095/305853 (Open Access) |
| Links | GeoHab 2017
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| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Meeting | 2017 GeoHab: Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping; Dartmouth, NS; CA; May 1-4, 2017 |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Todd, B J; Brown, C J;
Lacharité, M; Gazzola, V; McCormack, E; (2017). Program and abstracts: 2017 GeoHab Conference, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8295 |
| File format | pdf |
| Subjects | Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; Information and Communications; Government and Politics; Society and Culture; mapping techniques; oceanography; marine environments; coastal studies;
conservation; marine organisms; marine ecology; resource management; biological communities; environmental studies; ecosystems; sciences; politics; geological mapping; geological mapping techniques; biology; habitat mapping; habitat conservation;
habitat management |
| Program | Ocean Management Geoscience, Offshore Geoscience |
| Released | 2017 09 26 |
| Abstract | Politics should never play a role in how scientific facts are determined and presented. Yet the so-called "alternative facts" have entered our lexicon from a political stage in the US and scientists
around the world are scrambling to secure a voice that articulates what "facts" mean and how they are obtained. In general, science is under attack by politics. Although small and informal in comparison to other scientific organizations around the
world, GeoHab is not immune from such attacks and scientists involved with GeoHab need to consider how to keep their organization scientifically pure with a strong voice of creditability. A brief review will be made on how GeoHab got where it is and
the beneficial impacts made on the science of habitat and geologic mapping, and examples provided that illustrate the social and civil benefits of the organization and its scientists. A discussion will be made on what we see as the way forward and
how GeoHab can put to rest the concept of "alternative facts". |
| GEOSCAN ID | 305853 |
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