From Data to Stories: Communicating Science in a Climate of Change

`How does an ecological model or a satellite image become a story that informs and mobilises? Why does it matter which narratives are told and how they are shaped?

This talk explores how to communicate science from a critical and applied perspective, recognising that scientific communication is also an ethical, political, and territorial practice. Drawing on case studies such as mass strandings of storm-petrels, habitat risk models for pudú deer, urban wetland change in Patagonia, evidence-based coastal planning, and climate data portals in Patagonia, the talk reflects on how to transform complex datasets into narratives that support environmental decision-making. Rather than treating “outreach” as something separate from research, the lecture argues that storytelling is part of the scientific method itself, especially in contexts of accelerated socio-ecological transformation. Communicating science is not simply about simplification; it is about co-creating tools to imagine and negotiate more just and informed futures.