Community Engagement
Public Outreach
Audiovisual Media
Dr. Pierrat was a podcast guest on Further Together, the ORAU Podcast. Episode “Of rugrats, plant water usage and climate change: A conversation with Zoe Pierrat, Ph.D., NASA Postdoctoral Fellow”.
Dr. Pierrat was a guest on the podcast Hotter Weirder Smarter with Dr. Ruby Patterson. They chat about all kinds of things from plants, fieldwork, and imposter syndrome to finding community, riding bikes, and their killer skills on the triangle.
Dr. Pierrat was an interviewee on Univision 34 Los Angeles for a story on climate change and extinction (El Cambio Climático y Extinción).
Dr. Pierrat created a TED-Ed lesson on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF), a small light signal emitted by plants during the photosynthetic process.
Dr. Pierrat was an interviewee on Sustaining US by KLCS — an L.A. PBS station talking about youth activism in the climate movement.
Public Engagement
Dr. Pierrat gave a lecture at the Earth to Sky series at Channel Islands National Park, sharing research from the PIE Lab and resources for using and interpreting remote sensing data. The Earth to Sky Partnership nurtures and supports a growing community of interpreters, educators, and scientists learning and sharing science and communication techniques. Their community of practice develops interpretive and educational products and programs for use in refuges, parks, and other sites of place-based education.
As an educator at the UCLA Mathias Botanical Gardens, Dr. Pierrat led tours through the garden for a variety of audiences from 1st–12th grade students, UCLA groups, and visiting adults. As part of her work with the UCLA Botanic Gardens, she also gave several public lectures on “Plants and Climate” at Explore Your Universe, a science outreach event hosted at UCLA.
Print Media
- Interviewee for “Boreal Forests May Be on the Move”, Eos
- Author of “Ecosystem Observations from Every Angle”, Eos
- Feature on “Equity and Empowerment”, UCLA College Magazine
- Invited author, DendroHub blog: “Linking Dendrometers with Remote Sensing for Assessing Forest Phenology”
- Interviewee for “Sensing Change in the Tundra” press release
- Interviewee for “NEON Lights a Path for Sustained Ecological Observations”, Eos
Community Organizing
Linking Optical and Energy Fluxes Workshop
Dr. Pierrat was the lead organizer for the FLUXNET-funded “Linking Optical and Energy Fluxes” Workshop. 40 scientists representing a wide range of disciplines, geographies, and career stages gathered at Niwot Ridge Mountain Research Station to start building an international community connecting remote sensing and ecosystem flux science. The group discussed opportunities, challenges, and next steps with respect to using remote sensing to estimate terrestrial water, energy, and carbon fluxes.
Advancing Ecosystem Carbon Flux Research at the Lorentz Center
Dr. Pierrat co-organized a workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, Netherlands. In this five-day workshop, a group of international researchers came together to work on ‘advancing ecosystem carbon flux research’, with topics ranging from processes in the carbon cycle to machine learning tools and remote sensing.
Science Team Meetings
Society for Gender Equity in Geoscience (SGEG)
Dr. Pierrat founded SGEG in 2019 with other women at UCLA to promote gender equity in the geophysical sciences through outreach, community building, institutional reform, and career development. Follow current activities on Instagram.
Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS)
Dr. Pierrat is a CDLS fellow. The financial support from CDLS provided her the opportunity to engage in additional research, mentorship, and outreach, along with community, belonging, and professional development training.
Chi Epsilon Pi (XEP)
XEP is UCLA’s atmospheric graduate student organization. Dr. Pierrat started as Media Director and became Vice President for 2019–2020, serving on the Math and Physical Sciences Graduate student council. See what XEP is up to on their website.