On March 27, 2018, the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York, the University of Cologne, and the German Research Foundation (DFG) hosted “Communicating Science – From the Deep Sahara into World Media” with Dr. Stefan Kröpelin, 17th recipient of the Communicator Award and Geologist at the University of Cologne, Germany. A discussion moderated by Katherine Bagley, Managing Editor of Yale Environment 360, followed the talk.