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Frozen-Ground Cartoons: An international collaboration between artists and permafrost scientists

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Sjöberg,  Ylva
Max Planck Society;

Bouchard,  Fréderic
Max Planck Society;

Deshpande,  Bethany
Max Planck Society;

Fritz,  Michael
Max Planck Society;

Malenfant-Lepage,  Julie
Max Planck Society;

Nieuwendam,  Alexandre
Max Planck Society;

Paquette,  Michel
Max Planck Society;

Rudy,  Ashley
Max Planck Society;

Siewert,  Matthias Benjamin
Max Planck Society;

Veillete,  Audrey
Max Planck Society;

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Weege,  Stefanie
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Habeck,  J. O.
Max Planck Society;

Harbor,  John
Max Planck Society;

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Sjöberg, Y., Bouchard, F., Deshpande, B., Fritz, M., Malenfant-Lepage, J., Nieuwendam, A., Paquette, M., Rudy, A., Siewert, M. B., Veillete, A., Weege, S., Habeck, J. O., Harbor, J. (2017): Frozen-Ground Cartoons: An international collaboration between artists and permafrost scientists. - Poster presented at the American Geophyiscal Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 11 December 2017 - 15 December 2017


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5023080
Abstract
Communicating science about a phenomenon found under ground and defined by its thermal properties in an easy, fun, 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. Prints in North America are planned for the fall of 2017. The next steps of the 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.