Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Education, Communication and Outreach - Linking Research to Public
Policy and Environmental Awareness
Arctic Change 2008
Quebec City, Canada
9-12 December 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, September 26 2008.
Abstract submission guidelines are available at:
http://www.arcticchange2008.com/index.php?url=13010
For further information, please contact:
Lucette Barber
Email: barberL [at] cc.umanitoba.ca
Phone: 204-799-7328
Abstracts are now being sought for the session "Education, Communication
and Outreach - Linking Research to Public Policy and Environmental
Awareness," being convened at the Arctic Change 2008 Conference, to be
held 9-12 December 2008, in Quebec City, Canada.
Session Description:
This session will feature a wide continuum of programs and initiatives
that have successfully integrated education, communication and outreach
into scientific research. Session organizers invite researchers,
graduate students, educators, and outreach providers to take this
opportunity to share their successes and ideas by submitting an abstract
for oral presentations in one of the following categories:
1) Effective research partnerships between scientists and schools
2) Unique field experiences
3) Successful community-based monitoring and mentoring programs
4) Public education
5) Outcomes from IPY - sustaining the momentum
The session will be complemented by a dedicated poster session
highlighting outreach projects and initiatives. This poster session will
make it possible for anyone who is doing outreach within ArcticNet (on
any scale) to showcase their initiatives and the people (i.e., students,
teachers, public, etc.) or institutions (schools, museums, media, etc.)
that they are working with. The poster session will be accompanied by a
Smithsonian exhibit - "The Arctic - a Friend Acting Strangely." All
posters will be accepted, and presenters do not have to be present. The
aim is to show the breadth of outreach activities that are occurring
within the arctic research community. Schools on Board will present an
outreach award to recognize an individual or group that is taking a
leading role in scientific outreach.
ArcticNet (http://www.arcticnet-ulaval.ca) and its national and
international partners will welcome the international arctic research
community to Quebec City for the International Arctic Change 2008
Conference. Coinciding with the pinnacle of the International Polar Year
and the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, Arctic Change 2008 welcomes
researchers, students, policy makers and stakeholders from all fields of
arctic research and all countries to address the global challenges and
opportunities brought by climate change in the circum-Arctic. With 36
topical sessions and over 500 participants expected to attend, Arctic
Change 2008 will be the largest trans-sectoral international arctic
research conference ever held in Canada. The conference will be held at
the Quebec City Convention Centre from 9-12 December 2008.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com
Or contact:
Lucette Barber, Schools on Board
Email: barberL [at] cc.umanitoba.ca
Phone: 204-799-7328