Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College

1. Got Snow? Bridging the Poles and Building Momentum for the International Polar Year Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College

2. Workshop Topics and Recommendations • Maximize IPY Potential • Measuring Success http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/polar_workshop/

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

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

5. Got Snow? Target Learners at All Levels • Objectives • Public engagement in polar regions • Lifelong scientific literacy • Beyond science, to math, reading … • Strategies • 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

6. Engage Diverse Participation • Objectives • Arctic residents, including indigenous populations, are meaningfully engaged • Broaden diversity of those interested in polar science • Strategies – direct interaction • Arctic natives and residents • Ethnic diversity • Gender diversity • Geographic and international diversity • Socio-economic diversity Centennial: Henson at North Pole with Peary April, 1909 Earth Conservation Corps Matthew Henson Center in Washington, DC, in partnership with National Geographic

7. 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 Nicklin, F. 1991, "Beneath Arctic Ice". National Geographic

8. Effective Education and Outreach Infrastructure • Objectives • Long-term involvement of educators and scientists • Reinforcing partnerships • Linking communities around the globe • Strategies • 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

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 • Potential to engage new participants • Aficionados, those at the margins, those not yet connected • Use diverse media and approaches to reach new audiences

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 • Small, individual projects • Sustained transformation of local or target communities

12. Public Rollout Research or Educational Programs 2007 2009 Orchestrating SynergiesExciting 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

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?

14. “The Frozen Sublime: American Artists Explore the Poles” William Bradford, Scene in the Arctic, ca. 1880, oil on canva, 29 5/8 x 47 5/8, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 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 Adam Cvijanovic, Disko Bay, 10' x 27’, Flashe and latex on Tyvek, 2001, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn

15. Polar Films • Revkin documentary “The Big Melt” (working title) • Release September 2005, partners: CBC (Canada), Discovery, and NYTimes partners • Greely documentaries (pre-proposals to NSF ISE) • “Searching for Adolphus Greely: the American Shackleton” Gino DelGuercio feature film • “Farthest North: The Story of the Greely Polar Exhibition” WGBH American Experience • Polar IMAX? • Polar Film series (IPY EoI’s) • Current research -- WGBH: Evan Hadingham • Explorers -- WNET: Bill Grant?

16. Polar Explorer Film Series

17. Polar Books • Kelly Tyler “The Lost Men” • Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2005 • Andrew Revkin -- The changing face of the North Pole • Kingfisher/ Houghton Mifflin in partnership with NYTimes, 2006 • Susan Fox Rogers “Antarctic Passages” • Spring of 2006 • Gabrielle Walker “Antarctica: a biography of a continent” • End of 2007

18. Partnerships with Industry

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.

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

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

23. 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 From “Bridging the Poles: Education Linked with Research”

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

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) 1998-2004: 4 years to reach the North Pole and then 2 more years to exit through Fram Strait 1893-1896: Three years to for Fram to transit the Arctic Basin from Siberia to Fram Strait

26. Searching for Adolphus Greely: the American Shackleton Link historical sagas with IPY reports from the field

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.

28. Curriculum Development/DisseminationEarth’s Environmental Systems: ClimateRequired 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

29. Web Portal • Media and educators are eager for high quality content • Dynamic, sustained, one-stop polar research and education web site • High bandwidth communications • Content • 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

30. Linking the Poles with the Rest of the Earth:Environmental Variability and Change http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~kd/KDwebpages/NHice.html#one “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: Inuit Tapirisat of Canada Photo: Eric Loring, 1991

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

32. Leveraging Existing Resources Special Focus: Middle School Children University of the Arctic

33. American Museum of Natural History Drift Track by Fowler Ice Tracker/Polar Explorer Interactive Game If Shackleton had gotten stuck in the ice in a different year …

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