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Slide 1: Bridging the Poles and Building Momentum for the International Polar Year Got Snow? Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College
Slide 2:  Workshop Topics and Recommendations   Maximize IPY Potential Measuring Success http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/polar_workshop/
Slide 3: Cross-Cutting Themes Fascination with life in extreme environments – exploration, discovery, self-reliance  Link the world, with the worlds at the ends of the earth  Heritage and history  Place-based, multi- and interdisciplinary approaches  Student doing work with ice cores at Met station. Photo by Lucette Barber, Schools on Board, University of Manitoba
Slide 4: Cross-Cutting Themes  Link research with education – face-to-face Field experiences Leverage existing resources as well as create new programs Build capacity through people and infrastructure   
Slide 5: Got Snow? Target Learners at All Levels  Objectives    Public engagement in polar regions Lifelong scientific literacy Beyond science, to math, reading … K-5 – capitalize on natural interest 6-12 – incorporate in standard curricula Undergraduate non-science majors – engaging modules for required classes Undergraduate and graduate science students – field experiences General public and continuing education – links to history, art, heritage Institutions and agencies, educators (formal and informal), researchers, professional media  Strategies      
Slide 6: Engage Diverse Participation  Objectives   Arctic residents, including indigenous populations, are meaningfully engaged Broaden diversity of those interested in polar science Arctic natives and residents Ethnic diversity Gender diversity Geographic and international diversity Socio-economic diversity Centennial: Henson at North Pole with Peary April, 1909  Strategies – direct interaction      Earth Conservation Corps Matthew Henson Center in Washington, DC, in partnership with National Geographic
Slide 7: Nicklin, F. 1991, "Beneath Arctic Ice". National Geographic Leverage the Importance and Excitement of Polar Science     Objectives Roles of the poles in global systems Multi/interdisciplinary New generation of polar scientists, engineers, and leaders       Strategies – appreciation for nature and nature-society interactions Life in extreme environments Heritage, community and “pride of place” Environmental variability and change Policy and stewardship Science as a human endeavor
Slide 8: Effective Education and Outreach Infrastructure  Objectives    Long-term involvement of educators and scientists Reinforcing partnerships Linking communities around the globe Coordinating body with working group and staff Dynamic, sustained, one-stop polar research and education web site: media and educators eager for high quality content High bandwith communications DLESE IPY resource discovery page  Strategies   
Slide 10: IPY Potential   Exciting places at a critical time Truly interdisciplinary, interagency, and international  Connect communities and develop partnerships among agencies, scientists, educators, the media, the public, industry and government (at all levels) – Arctic Forum Aficionados, those at the margins, those not yet connected Use diverse media and approaches to reach new audiences  Potential to engage new participants  
Slide 11: Multiple Scales and Levels   Over 1000 EoI’s received  All with an Education and Outreach component Need broad spectrum of research, education, and outreach projects with flexibility in design and size  Large, collaborative projects -- national/international impact  Connect with press events, educational programming, and spin-offs of local programs Sustained transformation of local or target communities  Small, individual projects 
Slide 12: Orchestrating Synergies Exciting public presence over 2 years “Polar Mania” not “Polar Fatigue”  Need signature programs: exhibitions, films   Identify what is needed, pool resources for support, and issue a joint RFP? Focal points for smaller or local initiatives Public Rollout Research or Educational Programs 2007 2009
Slide 13: Museum Exhibitions  “A Friend Acting Strangely” October 22, 2005  Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Arctic Change exhibition  Too late for a major traveling exhibition? – could create satellite productions?  Smithsonian/AMNH partnership using on hand artifacts? Art exhibition? 
Slide 14: “The Frozen Sublime: American Artists Explore the Poles” Elizabeth Hutchinson IPY EoI Wuanita Smith, The Chase, ca. 1925. color woodblock print, 30.5 x 24 cm. Anchorage Museum William H. Johnson, Commodore Peary and Henson at the North Pole, c. 1945, oil on paperboard, 27 5/8 x 35 1/2 in. SAAM William Bradford, Scene in the Arctic, ca. 1880, oil on canva, 29 5/8 x 47 5/8, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Adam Cvijanovic, Disko Bay, 10' x 27’, Flashe and latex on Tyvek, 2001, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn
Slide 15: Polar Films  Revkin documentary “The Big Melt” (working title)  Release September 2005, partners: CBC (Canada), Discovery, and NYTimes partners “Searching for Adolphus Greely: the American Shackleton” Gino DelGuercio feature film “Farthest North: The Story of the Greely Polar Exhibition” WGBH American Experience  Greely documentaries (pre-proposals to NSF ISE)     Polar IMAX? Polar Film series (IPY EoI’s)   Current research -- WGBH: Evan Hadingham Explorers -- WNET: Bill Grant?
Slide 16: Polar Explorer Film Series Greely (1 film in production, 1 proposed) Nansen’s Farthest North? (no English-language film) Peary and Henson, Cook: “North Pole Legacy: Black, White and Eskimo,” “Welcome Home, Matthew Henson,” “Cook & Peary: The Race To The Pole,” “Prize of the Pole” in production Scott and Amundsen: “Last Place on Earth,” “Coldest March” Stefansson and the Karluk: “Arctic Dreamer: The Lonely Quest of Vilhjalmur Stefansson" Shackleton and the Endurance: A&E Miniseries, PBS Nova, IMAX 1881-84 1893-96 1886-09 1910-13 1913 1914-16
Slide 17: Polar Books   Kelly Tyler “The Lost Men”  Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2005 Kingfisher/ Houghton Mifflin in partnership with NYTimes, 2006 Spring of 2006 Andrew Revkin -- The changing face of the North Pole    Susan Fox Rogers “Antarctic Passages”  Gabrielle Walker “Antarctica: a biography of a continent”  End of 2007
Slide 18: Partnerships with Industry
Slide 19: Measuring Success: By 2010 …  Polar research captured the imagination of the public. People know more, and care more, about the poles. We inspired a new generation of polar scientists and decision-makers – including from native communities. They are prepared for future challenges. We engaged ethnically, socio-economically, geographically and gender diverse populations. Mechanisms are in place to sustain infrastructure and partnerships into the future.   
Slide 21: Implementation  McCaffery July Workshop      Identify programs, priorities Define participation and audiences Develop integrated research/education/outreach implementation and evaluation strategy Establish research, media, education and community partners Identify feature programs and sequencing: national and international  Implement and measure success
Slide 22: Other Projects in the Works  Website/Data “POLAR: Polar Observatory, Library, and Rendezvous” Mark McCaffery  “Ice Tracker/Polar Explorer” Pfirman et al. (submitted to NSF OPP)  Interest: DLESE, Exploratorium: Mary Miller, WGBH, WNET, International    Partnerships with industry Leveraging existing resources
Slide 23: From “Bridging the Poles: Education Linked with Research”        Workshop co-hosted by Pfirman and Bell Sponsored by NSF-OPP June 23-25, 2004 Washington, DC 22 Roundtable Discussions “Education and Outreach for the International Polar Year” EOS, Vol. 85, No. 49, 7 December 2004 Workshop report – available on website:  65 Participants  K-12 educators, undergraduate professors, Arctic and Antarctic researchers, Alaskan natives and residents, museum curators, representatives from agencies, the media, and international programs
Slide 24: IPY Expressions of Intent  Total 860 EoI’s received  All with an Education and Outreach component  65 specifically focused on Education and Outreach  27 from the United States
Slide 25: Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram “That Nansen did not endeavor to find  his ship, but left her in the ice while he laid his course homeward, has led certain critics to censure his conduct. General Greely, a renowned arctic explorer, asserts that he ‘thus deviated from the most sacred duty devolving upon the commander of a naval expedition.’” N. S. Shaler (1897) 1893-1896: Three years to for Fram to transit the Arctic Basin from Siberia to Fram Strait 1998-2004: 4 years to reach the North Pole and then 2 more years to exit through Fram Strait
Slide 26: Searching for Adolphus Greely: the American Shackleton Link historical sagas with IPY reports from the field
Slide 27: Exploring the Poles: Evaluation       The idea of science [changed] as more of an involving thing that people are going out and exploring things that haven’t been explored before. … most of the times when I think of scientists I think of labs, test tubes, and that. So I definitely think that it widened my horizons. Not only within science but in environmental sciences, you know. …you get so much more of a perspective because they are giving you first hand knowledge and their first hand experience so you see it is more like a lifestyle, more than a job. … when we are doing our expeditions. That is when I feel sort of like a scientist. Because I am trying to calculate when is the best time to come in [through the sea ice] and we are trying to pull out all of the knowledge that we have and information from the Internet. … The maps that they give us, the Internet, I mean the ice flow charts. [The consideration of the alternate expedition fate] … made us think about how to put ourselves in the position and what other outcomes could have been. If you can see alternatives then you know what they are facing against. You kind of put yourself in that place. In other classes I feel I am sitting … In this class I feel I am going somewhere.
Slide 28: Curriculum Development/Dissemination Earth’s Environmental Systems: Climate Required of All Columbia and Barnard Undergraduate Environmental Majors Saline Bottom Water Examples of Case Studies for Undergraduates: Thermohaline Circulation, NAO/AO, Arctic Warming, Ice Station Weddell
Slide 29:  Media and educators are eager for high quality content    Dynamic, sustained, one-stop polar research and education web site High bandwidth communications Content       Web Portal Reports from the field: research news and stories Curricula Data: multidisciplinary, qualitative as well as quantitative Animations, simulations Careers Contacts: scientists, educators, communities, media  Maintenance DLESE IPY resource discovery page
Slide 30: Linking the Poles with the Rest of the Earth: Environmental Variability and Change http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~kd/KDwebpages/NHice.html#one Photo: Inuit Tapirisat of Canada “Forces of Change” is the National Museum of Natural History’s earth system science program. “A Friend Acting Strangely” will demonstrate the role that Arctic sea ice plays in shaping global climate throughout time. Photo: Eric Loring, 1991
Slide 31: Implementation  Education and outreach leadership, community building and management connected with research programs  Need US interagency E&O Working Group (July recommendation) Need international E&O Working Group (March Paris recommendation – Igor Krupnik co-chair) Need staff    Need funding for coordination of existing, and development of new, projects
Slide 32: Leveraging Existing Resources Special Focus: Middle School Children University of the Arctic
Slide 33: Ice Tracker/Polar Explorer Interactive Game American Museum of Natural History If Shackleton had gotten stuck in the ice in a different year … Drift Track by Fowler
Slide 34: Centennial of North Pole “Attainment” by Peary and Henson in 1909 “Beyond the Pole: Robert E. Peary and History of American Arctic Exhibition” proposed by Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine, Peary-MacMillian Arctic Museum The “Big Lead” Tremblay Matthew Henson