Popular Press Articles
- How I created a film festival to explore climate communication in Nature Career Column, Oct 2024.
- Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows in The Conversation, Aug, 2024.
- Reprinted in Yahoo! News, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Caledonian Record.
- Emerging Research Links Climate Action With Spirituality in Sierra Magazine, Jun 2023.
- How Colombian coffee farmers helped my climate change research in Nature Career Column, Jul, 2022.
- Ukraine is benefiting from generous donations – and many other global causes need help, too in The Conversation, Mar, 2022.
- Reprinted in Yahoo! News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- Should Elon Musk try to solve the problem of world hunger with $6 billion? 5 questions answered in The Conversation, Nov, 2021.
- Reprinted in Yahoo! News and MarketWatch.
- World hunger surged in 2020, with 1 in 10 people on Earth undernourished in The Conversation, Jul, 2021.
- Reprinted in U.S. News & World Report and World Economic Forum.
- Nobel Peace Prize spotlights the links between hunger and conflict in The Conversation, Oct, 2020.
- Reprinted in U.S. News & World Report.
- What institutions can do to improve science communication in Nature Career Column, Dec, 2019.
- How an aid gusher helped and hurt Liberia in The Conversation, Jun, 2019.
- Use peer-to-peer research collaboration in graduate school in Nature Career Column, May, 2019.
- Climate Adaptation in Coffee Country in Sierra Magazine, Mar, 2019.
- Herding experts and polishing text: 10 tips for creating an edited volume in Nature Careers Column, Jan, 2019.
- World hunger has risen for three straight years, and climate change is a cause in The Conversation, Oct, 2018.
- Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia’s changing climate in The Conversation, Aug, 2018.
- Reprinted in CNBC, MarketWatch, The Wire, PRI, The Weather Network, Yahoo! News and Quartz.
- Food Security’s Red Herrings: GMOs and Organic in Thomson Reuters Foundation News, Aug, 2018.
- The million-dollar question every scientist should be asking in Naturejobs Blog, Jun, 2018.
- Agricultural Technology Can Save Humanity from Starvation (Again) in The Scientist, Feb, 2018.
- The discomfort is worth it: share more in Naturejobs Blog, Jun, 2017.
- Science communication: what it takes in Naturejobs Blog, Feb, 2017.
In the News
- Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia in WIRED, May 13, 2025.
- Less guilt, more hope on screen at Bus-Chum for Earth Connection Film Festival in The Herald-Times, Jul 16, 2024.
- How can countries build resilience to strong storms? in Latin America Advisor, Jul 8, 2024.
- Will Latin America’s Water Resource Struggles Continue? in Latin America Advisor, May 23, 2024.
- How much does El Niño threaten coffee crops? in Latin America Advisor, Nov 22, 2023.
- In climate extremes, opportunities for deeper reflection in The Christian Science Monitor, Jul, 2023.
- Spiritual but not religious: How values connect on climate in Sustainability Times, Mar, 2023.
- Major countries warned of rising carbon dioxide emissions after pandemic in SW Londoner, Oct, 2022.
- Bloomberg Green: Sustainable Agriculture on Bloomberg TV, Jul, 2021.
- U.N. World Food Program Wins Nobel Peace Prize in WORT 89.9 8 O’Clock Buzz, Oct, 2020.
- Telling Climate Adaptation Stories in The Measure of Everyday Life, Oct, 2020.
- The global coffee crisis is coming in Vox, Aug, 2020.
- Colombian students’ web series raise awareness on the threats facing coffee farmers in International Comunicaffe, Aug, 2020.
- Café colombiano, entre el cambio climático y la ausencia de jóvenes cafeteros [Colombian coffee, between climate change and the absence of young farmers] in Semana Sostenible, Aug, 2020.
- Purdue, Colombian students raise awareness of coffee farming threats in The Lafayette Leader, Aug, 2020.
- Salvar el café colombiano [Saving Colombia’s coffee] in El Espectador, Jul, 2020.
- Colombia’s National Coffee Organization Profits Off Climate Change Denial in VICE, Jul, 2020.
- Las malas condiciones de los campesinos: otro desafío para la producción de café colombiano [Poor conditions for rural workers: another challenge for Colombian coffee production] in El Espectador, Jul, 2020.
- El cambio climático amenaza el futuro del café colombiano [Climate change threatens the future of Colombian coffee] in El Espectador, Jul, 2020.
- Un mundo sin café [A world without coffee] in El Espectador, Jul, 2020.
- Desde el Cafetal – Presentando Clima y Café in Emisora Cultural de Pereira 97.7 FM, Jun, 2020.
- Rebuilding the coffee system for resilience in In This Climate Podcast from Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute, Nov 22, 2019.
- As Climate Changes, Colombia’s Small Coffee Farmers Pay the Price in Yale Environment 360, Jul, 2019.
- Lamb School Ph.D. student’s grant projects help Colombian coffee farmers contend with climate change in THiNK Magazine, Apr, 2019.
- 15 Best Agriculture Books of All Time in BookAuthority, 2019.
- Ag experts take a look at ‘feeding the world’ in High Plains / Midwest Ag Journal, Apr, 2019.
- 20 Good Food Reads for Spring in Food Tank Lists, Jan, 2019.
- 26 great farm books for your reading list in AgDaily, Nov, 2018.
- Book Review: Renee in WBAA Indiana Public Broadcasting, Jun, 2018.
- When GMOs Are the Movie Star in Scientific American, Oct, 2017.
- Why New GMO Labels Might Not Tell the Whole Story in Indiana Public Media, Jul, 2016.
- Authors attempt to explain ‘The Communication Scarcity in Agriculture’ in Farm Futures, Oct, 2016.
Journal Articles
Eise, J., Camarillo, A., & Lasley, S. (2025). Mental Models and Enduring Climate Action: The Earth Connection Film Festival. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2025.2509968
Eise, J. & Thoene, U. (2025). Tailoring Digital Content to Address Occupational Injustice: Improving Accessibility and Equity for Marginalized Groups. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 91. https://doi.org/10.1002/isd2.70004
Eise, J. & Rawat, M. (2023). Spiritual but Not Religious Seek Unrestricted Connection to Selves, Others, and Earth: Formative Research on the Explosive Growth of an ‘Inactive Public’ Beyond the Organization. Public Relations Review, 49, 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102276
Eise, J., Lambert, N.J., & Wiemer E.C. (2021). Leveraging Communities’ Network Strengths to Support Climate Change Adaptation Information-Sharing: A Study with Coffee Farmers in Risaralda, Colombia. Climatic Change, 168, 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03206-w
Eise, J. & Rawat, M. (2021). Applying Structurational Divergence Theory to Climate Change Adaptation in a Localized Context: Understanding Adaptive Potential of Coffee Producers in Risaralda, Colombia. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2021.1970792
Lambert, N.J. & Eise, J. (2020). Farming in the Face of Uncertainty: How Colombian Coffee Farmers Conceptualize and Communicate Their Experiences With Climate Change. International Journal of Communication, 14, 21.
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