Frozen-Ground Cartoons: An international collaboration between artists and permafrost scientists
Communicating science about a phenomenon found under ground and defined by its thermal properties in an easy, funny, and engaging way, can be a challenge. Two years ago, a group of young researchers from Canada and Europe united to tackle this problem by combining arts and science to produce a serie...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:47013 2024-09-15T18:29:42+00:00 Frozen-Ground Cartoons: An international collaboration between artists and permafrost scientists Fritz, Michael Bouchard, Fréderic Deshpande, Bethany Malenfant-Lepage, Julie Nieuwendam, Alexandre Paquette, Michel Rudy, Ashley Siewert, Matthias Veillete, Audrey Weege, Stefanie Harbor, Jonathan M. Habeck, J. O. Sjöberg, Ylva 2018-03-29 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47013/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47013/1/Poster_Comics_DGP_2018_1.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.9d86219a-6ccd-42c0-a1f2-47207d967bff unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47013/1/Poster_Comics_DGP_2018_1.pdf Fritz, M. orcid:0000-0003-4591-7325 , Bouchard, F. , Deshpande, B. , Malenfant-Lepage, J. , Nieuwendam, A. , Paquette, M. , Rudy, A. , Siewert, M. , Veillete, A. , Weege, S. , Harbor, J. M. , Habeck, J. O. and Sjöberg, Y. (2018) Frozen-Ground Cartoons: An international collaboration between artists and permafrost scientists , 27. Internationale Polartagung, Rostock, Germany, 25 March 2018 - 29 March 2018 . hdl:10013/epic.9d86219a-6ccd-42c0-a1f2-47207d967bff EPIC327. Internationale Polartagung, Rostock, Germany, 2018-03-25-2018-03-29 Conference notRev 2018 ftawi 2024-06-24T04:19:47Z Communicating science about a phenomenon found under ground and defined by its thermal properties in an easy, funny, and engaging way, can be a challenge. Two years ago, a group of young researchers from Canada and Europe united to tackle this problem by combining arts and science to produce a series of outreach comic strips about permafrost (frozen ground). Because this concerns us all. As the climate warms, permafrost thaws and becomes unstable for houses, roads and airports. The thawing also disrupts ecosystems, impacts water quality, and releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, making climate change even stronger. The Frozen Ground Cartoon project aims to present and explain permafrost research, placing emphasis on field work and the rapidly changing northern environment. The target audience is kids, youth, parents and teachers, with the general goal of making permafrost science more fun and accessible to the public. The project has so far produced 22 pages of comics through an iterative process of exchanging ideas between two artists and thirteen scientists. The project artists were selected through an application call that received 49 applications from artists in 16 countries. With input from scientists, artists Noémie Ross (Canada) and Heta Nääs (Finland) have created a set of beautiful, artistic, humoristic, and pedagogic comics. The comics are available for free download through the project web page (in English and Swedish), and printed copies have so far been handed out to school kids and general public in Europe and Canada. The next steps of this project are (1) to distribute the comics as wide as possible, (2) work towards translations into more languages, and (3) to evaluate the effectiveness of the science communication through the comics, in collaboration with schools and pedagogic experts. Conference Object permafrost Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) |
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Communicating science about a phenomenon found under ground and defined by its thermal properties in an easy, funny, and engaging way, can be a challenge. Two years ago, a group of young researchers from Canada and Europe united to tackle this problem by combining arts and science to produce a series of outreach comic strips about permafrost (frozen ground). Because this concerns us all. As the climate warms, permafrost thaws and becomes unstable for houses, roads and airports. The thawing also disrupts ecosystems, impacts water quality, and releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, making climate change even stronger. The Frozen Ground Cartoon project aims to present and explain permafrost research, placing emphasis on field work and the rapidly changing northern environment. The target audience is kids, youth, parents and teachers, with the general goal of making permafrost science more fun and accessible to the public. The project has so far produced 22 pages of comics through an iterative process of exchanging ideas between two artists and thirteen scientists. The project artists were selected through an application call that received 49 applications from artists in 16 countries. With input from scientists, artists Noémie Ross (Canada) and Heta Nääs (Finland) have created a set of beautiful, artistic, humoristic, and pedagogic comics. The comics are available for free download through the project web page (in English and Swedish), and printed copies have so far been handed out to school kids and general public in Europe and Canada. The next steps of this project are (1) to distribute the comics as wide as possible, (2) work towards translations into more languages, and (3) to evaluate the effectiveness of the science communication through the comics, in collaboration with schools and pedagogic experts. |
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Fritz, Michael Bouchard, Fréderic Deshpande, Bethany Malenfant-Lepage, Julie Nieuwendam, Alexandre Paquette, Michel Rudy, Ashley Siewert, Matthias Veillete, Audrey Weege, Stefanie Harbor, Jonathan M. Habeck, J. O. Sjöberg, Ylva |
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Fritz, Michael Bouchard, Fréderic Deshpande, Bethany Malenfant-Lepage, Julie Nieuwendam, Alexandre Paquette, Michel Rudy, Ashley Siewert, Matthias Veillete, Audrey Weege, Stefanie Harbor, Jonathan M. Habeck, J. O. Sjöberg, Ylva Frozen-Ground Cartoons: An international collaboration between artists and permafrost scientists |
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Frozen-Ground Cartoons: An international collaboration between artists and permafrost scientists |
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