Adriana Raudzens Bailey, exceptional communications work

Adriana Raudzens Bailey very eagerly and efficiently fulfills her regular CIRES duties, which in 2008 included constructing press releases for dozens of CIRES fellows and scientists, as well as facilitating several high-profile press conferences. However, one story illustrating how she so typically exceeds all requirements and expectations involves the transformation of a simple press release for David Noone into a story that was pitched to various news agencies, leading to an article in The Christian Science Monitor, and an editorial feature in Nature. She also facilitated a live radio interview, set up a real-time “notes from the field” blog on the CIRES website, and most recently, contributed an NSF “Discoveries” feature describing the atmospheric water vapor research of Dr. Noone and colleagues. Other examples of Adriana’s initiative and creativity include developing an ocean current exhibit for the Smithsonian, designing a web-based blog to track the (mostly) scientific exploits of CIRES scientist Ludovic Bariteau as he cruised the Southern Ocean as part of the Gas Exchange (GasEx) experiment, and producing a terrific, if somewhat disturbing, video on coastal erosion in Alaska that was featured on Andy Revkin’s “DotEarth”, a popular New York Times blog on science and the environment. Adriana regularly demonstrates an uncanny ability get the right stories told to the right audiences via the right channels, without diluting the fundamental science that is so cherished by the scientists of CIRES.