February 11 is the “International Day of Women and Girls in Science” and we are using this occasion to remind you of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) event: “Celebrating Women in Antarctica” Wikibomb* held in conjunction with the SCAR Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur on 23 August.
This event will be a celebration of female Antarctic researchers and those involved in supporting science by raising their profile to help provide more visible female role models for early career scientists and girls around the world.
If you want to nominate influential female Antarctic researchers and those involved in supporting research, both past and present, to potentially be included in our Wikibomb* event you can find more instructions here: http://www.scar.org/women/nominate
We are looking for APECS members as volunteers to help us put together short biographies of nominated women and create their wikipages before the SCAR 2016 conference. The SCAR Community will help provide the content for the biographies. No previous experience with Wikipedia is necessary, SCAR will provide training, but it’s pretty straightforward.
If you are interested, please contact Rachel Downey at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (before 21 Feb) or Jenny Baeseman at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For more information on the Wikibomb event and to nominate an outstanding Antarctic Woman, visit http://www.scar.org/outreach/women.
We hope you will join us for this fun and important contribution to Antarctic science!
Rachel and the Antarctic Women Wikibomb Organizing Committee
* A wikibomb is an event where people work together to produce lots of papers of content for Wikipedia on one specific topic – in this case Women involved in Antarctic Research
