This opportunity is curated through the UF TESI Environmental Leaders Network. Opportunities posted through the Network may not be affiliated with the Florida Museum or TESI, but are shared with UF undergraduate students who want to learn more about environmental research, education and outreach, and civic engagement.
Event Title
Teach Climate Network Workshop: Real-time Science in Real-deal Arctic Challenges
Host Organization
Description
Just how are climate change observations data collected and communicated? Over 40 years of consistent weather data from the Arctic Ocean has been collected through environmental sensors inside drifting ocean buoys by the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP).
Sarah Johnson, Arctic Outreach Educator with the IABP, and climate change education specialist at Wild Rose Education will share her first-hand experience from the Arctic collecting weather and sea ice data by deploying buoys on the sea ice 100 miles offshore from a helicopter. She will share stories of working with the local Indigenous people to get buoys deployed from Utqiagvik, Alaska (formerly Barrow), the work of dancing with the extreme dynamic daily weather in March and April while deploying buoys, and other real-deal stories from the field… rather than the polished published science stories that typically leave out much of the colorful authentic details. She will also share how the geographic data is accessible to the public as well as the real challenges of ordinary folks and educators using big data sets.
For more information about this project, check out: WildRoseEducation.com/Arctic
Event Date/Time
April 20, 2023 at 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Central Time)
Event Location
Why should you participate?
Students will gain an expanded perspective of field research and working with local Indigenous communities while doing science, in this case at the Arctic Ocean.
For questions, contact:
Seth Spencer at seth@climategen.org or Sarah Johnson at sarah@wildroseeducation.com
