Session Announcement and Call for Papers
Education, Outreach and Communications During the International Polar
Year, and Beyond
AGU Fall Meeting
10-14 December 2007
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: 6 September 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=205
Papers are invited for Session ED02: "Education, Outreach and
Communications During the International Polar Year, and Beyond" being
convened at the AGU Fall Meeting on 10-14 December 2007 in San
Francisco, California.
Session description:
Recent popular films about penguins and now polar bears and walruses
have helped increase public awareness of polar dynamics, seasonal
extremes, and climate change. The International Polar Year (IPY) is now
poised to further inform broad audiences about polar science and global
impacts beyond the sentimental attraction of charismatic mega-fauna.
Researchers involved with efforts to communicate polar research to
non-technical audiences via formal education, science centers and
museums, or media outlets, as well as those engaged with the education,
outreach, and communication (EOC) efforts of IPY projects are invited to
submit an abstract for this session.
Whether research or projects are formally endorsed or funded through IPY
programs or not, session organizers welcome insights and experience as
they relate to communicating the role of polar regions and the
cryosphere beyond the peer community to broad audiences. Researchers
focusing on topics such as the creative use of information technology,
evaluation of audience needs and misconceptions, and engaging arctic
communities and underrepresented communities are strongly encouraged to
submit abstracts.
Session organizers welcome abstracts from all polar research and global
teleconnection disciplines and areas of science education, outreach, and
communcations in order to demonstrate and share the wide range of tools
and methods being employed. Scientists, educators, journalists, artists,
youth, and digital earth programmers are encouraged to present their
work and ideas to share how science, real-time data and research
stories, and narrative descriptions of research-in-action can engage the
public.
Conveners:
Rhian A. Salmon
International Polar Year, British Antarctic Survey
E-mail: ipy.ras [at] gmail.com
Mark McCaffrey
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
E-mail: Mark.Mccaffrey [at] Colorado.EDU
Nicola Munro
International Polar Year, British Antarctic Survey
E-mail: ipy1 [at] bas.ac.uk
Further information and abstract submission procedures are available at:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/