Curator of Learning Sciences, Natural History Museum of Utah
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology

u6031619@utah.edu

Publications

• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo L.M. & Gargroetzi, E.C., Hadzic, L.M. (2023). Theorizing science-civic practices: Youth adaptation and remixing of scientific numeracies within digital civic media. Science Education. Vol. 107, 1593-1627., 08/21/2023
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo L.M. (2023). Climate change and the social world: Discourse analysis of students’ intuitive understandings. Science & Education. 1-20., 01/06/2023
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo L.M. (2022). Disagreement as context for science-civic learning: An analysis of discursive resources brought to bear by high school science students. Cultural Studies of Science Education. Vol. 17, 1115–1139., 11/24/2022
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo L.M. & Massey, E. (2022). Using Synthetic Knowledge and Interaction Analysis to Investigate Learning in a Collaborative Digital Climate Learning Experience,. (pp. 393-400). Vol. 2022. International Society of the Learning Sciences Conference Proceedings., 06/01/2022
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo L.M. & Dozier, S.J. (2021). Using epistemic instructional activities to support secondary science teachers’ social construction of knowledge of anthropogenic climate change during a professional learning experience. Journal of Geoscience Education. Vol. 70, 530-545., 10/13/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo L.M., Gargroetzi, E.C. & Garcia, A. (2021). How youth use scientific argumentation in civic participation on climate change: polar bears, the Great Barrier Reef, and ‘your job as president’. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement. Vol. 11, 362-377., 10/02/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo L., Donovan B. & Busch K.C. (2021). Complex influences of mechanistic knowledge, worldview, and quantitative reasoning on climate change discourse: Evidence for ideologically motivated reasoning among youth. (pp. 95-127). Vol. 58, Journal of Research in Science Teaching., 01/01/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo L., Gargroetzi E. & Garcia A. (2020). Youth voice on climate change: using factor analysis to understand the intersection of science, politics, and emotion. (pp. 1207-1226). Vol. 26, Environmental Education Research., 08/02/2020
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo L.M. & Friedland, A.J. (2011). Soil carbon release along a gradient of physical disturbance in a harvested northern hardwood forest. Forest Ecology & Management. Vol. 261., 03/15/2011

Presentations

• CLIMATE CHANGE: Towards a Better Climate Future: Museum Exhibits for Shared Engagement and Learning, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA., 10/13/2023
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo, L., Thompson, L., Clifford, C., and Davis, C. (2023). Developing climate exhibits for shared engagement and learning: Emergent design conjectures for museums. SIG-3 (Informal Science Learning) Invited Symposium Presentation: Showcasing Research in Out-of-School Science Learning by Junior Scholars. European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Cappadocia, Turkey., 09/01/2023
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo, L., Thompson, L., Clifford, C., and Davis, C. (2023). Leveraging Side Doors and Humor to Connect Diverse Informal Learners to Climate Change. Paper Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL., 04/16/2023
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo, L., Thompson, L., Clifford, C., and Davis, C. (2023). Leveraging Side Doors and Humor to Connect Diverse Informal Learners to Climate Change. Paper Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. April 16, 2023., 11/10/2022
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo, L.M. & Gargroetzi, E.C. (2022). Remixing the Past and Present: Scientific Civic Literacies to Articulate New Futures in Youth-Produced Media, American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA, April 24, 2022., 04/24/2022
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo, L.M. & Gargroetzi, E.C. (2022). Theorizing science-civic practices: Youth adaptation and remixing of science practices within digital civic participation, National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Vancouver, Canada, March 30, 2022., 03/30/2022
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Zummo, L.M. (2022). Decisions for Our Future: Learning through Collaborative Civic Decision-Making in a Digital Climate Simulation. National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Vancouver, Canada, March 29, 2022., 03/29/2022
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Confronting the politics of a changing climate in the science classroom, Royal Geographic Society, London, England, UK, November 18, 2021., 11/18/2021

Media

• CLIMATE CHANGE: "Landmark exhibition launches this month at NHMU" featured on This Green Earth on KPCW, 11/07/2023