Prof. James Frew, an associate professor of environmental information management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has worked with Dr. Gray and is helping to coordinate the search, said he was uncertain at first about how the Coast Guard would react to the scientists' involvement.
We present a systematic review of research on academic scientists' involvement in these activities to which we refer as 'academic engagement'.
Scientists' involvement in outreach, politics, and entrepreneurship should be encouraged.
Andrews and Weaver found that time constraints were the unanimous primary impediment to scientists' involvement in outreach.
In some cases, scientists' involvement has been correlated with increased student achievement and improvements in students' attitudes toward science (e.g., Bruce et al., 1997; Laursen et al., 2007; Sadler et al., 2010).
With regard to social media outreach, the biggest reason given in informal discussions for a scientist's involvement in social media outreach is that engagement will directly benefit a scientist's career.
According to Mr. Belal, the political scientist, the involvement of Mr. Benkirane and his government in media issues marks a significant break with past practice: Previous prime ministers were less visible and less aware of the importance of media exposure, he said.
Moreover, we find that a scientist's involvement increases with the industry orientation of the scientist's co-authors ("personal peer effect"), irrespective of the scientist's age.
Based on survey data of 355 German academics in the field of biotechnology and publication data from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), we find that the scientist's involvement with industry increases with the orientation of the scientist's department toward industry ("localized peer effect").
