UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Erica Smithwick, the director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State, will join three other climate scholars at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, for a virtual panel event on communication.

Hosted by the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3), the event — “Communicating Climate Research in an Uncertain Climate” — will center on “insights about rising above common obstacles in climate research communication,” according to the coalition. Free registration is available.

“Climate researchers face new and daunting challenges communicating their work to communities, students, media and policymakers in uncertain times,” UC3 wrote in a preview. Penn State is a member of the coalition, an initiative of the nonprofit Second Nature.

Smithwick, a distinguished professor of geography, is also an associate director at Penn State’s Institute of Energy and the Environment. She leads the Penn State Climate Consortium, which aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers in partnership with society to innovate climate solutions. She is currently on sabbatical as a Bullard Fellow at Harvard Forest Research Station.

Other panelists scheduled for the Oct. 29 event are John Robinson, a faculty member and presidential adviser on the environment, climate change and sustainability at the University of Toronto, and Edmundo Molina Pérez, the research and faculty director at the Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública of Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Marcus Taylor, a professor and head of the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, will moderate.