Sunday 21 March 2021 16:00 – 17:30 GMT
Participants learned about the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) and The Young Earth System Scientists community (YESS). International collaboration is crucial these days to carry out polar research. In order to bring researchers together from all over the globe, the above-mentioned communities coordinated and fostered international and interdisciplinary studies in terms of related project groups, awareness-raising workshops, and many more collaborative activities on both Polar and Alpine regions, and the wider cryosphere via communication with early career researchers. After a presentation on communication with the public, the session touched upon some of the challenges of bringing the scientific community together. A panel discussion expanded on two short talks on Science and Diplomacy in the Arctic and insights about Indigenous collaboration. The session concluded by bringing these ideas together by showing what was done across the collaboration and communication spectrum by YOPP’s International Coordination Office.
Introduction to APECS, YESS and YOPP:
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Zack Labe: "Communicating Arctic climate change through data-driven stories"
In this presentation, I discussed the power of sharing Arctic climate change information through accessible and engaging data visualizations. In particular, I focused on using social media (Twitter) as one tool for communicating science to broad audiences. -
Anja Sommerfeld (MOSAiC): “MOSAiC - International Coordination and Communication of the Largest Arctic Research Expedition”
MOSAiC was the largest Arctic research expedition of our times and took place from autumn 2019 until autumn 2020. Here, we would like to explain the coordination on an international level, the comprehensive communication strategy to reach a broad audience and introduce the engagement of young scientists. -
Marylou Athanase (MOSAiC Ambassador): “A coordinated science communication effort led by the Early Career MOSAiC Ambassadors”
In 2019, 20 early career scientists joined the MOSAiC School onboard the support vessel Akademik Fedorov. As MOSAiC Ambassadors with diverse backgrounds, they constructed a wealth of MOSAiC-related science communication projects. This talk will provide a brief overview of these outreach products and will underline their complementarity, which was instrumental in efficiently reaching a wide variety of audiences. -
Katia Kontar (International Global Change Science Lead, U.S. Global Change Research Program): “Understanding Effects of Global Change in the Arctic through Science Diplomacy”
In the Arctic, there is strong evidence of the ongoing impacts of global environmental change on communities and ecosystems. At the same time, the rapid warming of the Arctic has global implications through processes such as glacier retreat, sea ice melt, and interrupted species migration. These vexing problems cannot be effectively addressed by any one discipline, institution, or community. They call for continuous collaboration between diverse knowledge holders, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Science diplomacy incorporates collaboration across all sorts of borders: country, institutional, cultural, and disciplinary. It promotes transdisciplinary cooperation instead of exploitive and extractive multidisciplinary research, where outsiders come in, complete their work, and then leave, with the areas researched gaining little from the knowledge. -
Kirstin Werner (Director YOPP International Coordination Office): “4Cs to 3Ps – Building a Community for the Polar Prediction Project"
The Polar Prediction Project (PPP) is a ten-year endeavor initiated by the World Meteorological Organization to improve weather and sea-ice predictions in the Arctic and Antarctic. To ensure the success of PPP’s flagship initiative Year of Polar Prediction, the four Cs – communication, coordination, community engagement, and collaboration – have been essential for the International Coordination Office for Polar Prediction to build up a polar prediction community over the past years. Good knowledge on the mechanisms of communication, media and also science marketing can enhance the engagement and motivation by various stakeholder groups to become involved with PPP and YOPP.
APECS/YESS/YOPP Workshop at ASSW2021_Session 2 from APECS Webinars on Vimeo.
