HR: 14:10h
AN: ED13A-03 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: IPY Storytelling
AU: Linder, C A
EM: clinder@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543, United States
AU: * Lippsett, L
EM: llippsett@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543, United States
AU: Carlowicz, M
EM: mcarlowicz@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543, United States
AB: "Live from the Poles" tells the stories of science on ice. This NSF-sponsored education and outreach project (polardiscovery.whoi.edu) aims to go beyond results and sound bites to convey the full experience of polar research with all its trials, triumphs, and nuances. It uses a multimedia approach, including online photo essays posted daily during expeditions, along with videos, interviews, podcasts, animations, and audio clips-plus live satellite phone calls to audiences in major museums and science centers throughout the country. Our media team, typically a science writer and photographer, are embedded into the research program for the duration of the project. They live in the polar environment with the science party, bolstering their ability to convey the "human side" of the story that engages the public: What inspired the researchers to study the Arctic? What do they eat for dinner? How do they cope with the environment and being away from home? What other unexpected challenges will arise and how will they be overcome? The first expedition, in April 2007, shared the excitement of working in Nunavut, Canada, as researchers prepared to deploy instruments at the North Pole Environmental Observatory. The second followed an international scientific team's search for hydrothermal vents aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden in July-August 2007. The Polar Discovery Web site has attracted more than 74,000 online visitors in its first eight months of operation. During the first two expeditions, the project facilitated 15 live audio talks to museum audiences, media outlets, and teacher workshops. This presentation will focus on lessons learned from the first two expeditions, with perspectives on science reporting and writing in the field from a science writer at AGU, and on the art of documentary photography, from photographer and project manager Chris Linder, who will speak via satellite phone from the third Polar Discovery expedition in Antarctica.
UR: http://polardiscovery.whoi.edu
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 9310 Antarctica (4207)
DE: 9315 Arctic region (0718, 4207)
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting