Virtual Posters
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Virtual Posters
COMMUNICATING POLAR RESEARCH: THE APECS ANTARCTIC TREATY SUMMIT ESSAY CONTEST
Education and Outreach
IPY Oslo Science Conference, 8-12 June 2010 in Oslo, Norway
2010
With the changing climate in the polar regions comes an increasing need for better cooperation between scientists and policy makers. Early-career researchers have an important challenge not only to do great science, but to find ways to work with policy makers and inform policy decisions regarding polar issues. Early-career researchers need to be encouraged to share their research results and educated thoughts on environmental and political matters with political leaders and the wider public as these thoughts represent important indicators of the directions polar research and ethics will take in the future.
This poster will report on the approach and results of the APECS Antarctic Treaty Essay Contest, which gave early-career researchers the opportunity to communicate their views of contentious polar issues with the polar academic community and the wider public.
This essay contest was organized with the support of the International Board for the Antarctic Treaty Summit and was publicized in conjunction with the Summit. As part of this contest, young polar researchers were asked to discuss one of five essay questions focused on how to better integrate science and policy and on the needs for new policy dealing with current issues in the Antarctic as well as the Arctic.
The winning essay dealt with the principles of the Antarctic Treaty's Article IV to the Siachen Glacier in the disputed region of Kashmir. The second and third prizes were given to a young researcher analyzing the spread of commercial exploitation into Antarctica through bioprospecting and a high-school student applying the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) principles to the high seas. As will be shown by this poster, young researchers do not only appreciate and embrace opportunities given to them to present their ideas and analyses but have the potential to view existing issues from promising new and creative angles. Suggestions will be offered concerning the options policy makers and the academic community have to make the most of the capability of early-career researchers to view matters from a different perspective.
This poster will report on the approach and results of the APECS Antarctic Treaty Essay Contest, which gave early-career researchers the opportunity to communicate their views of contentious polar issues with the polar academic community and the wider public.
This essay contest was organized with the support of the International Board for the Antarctic Treaty Summit and was publicized in conjunction with the Summit. As part of this contest, young polar researchers were asked to discuss one of five essay questions focused on how to better integrate science and policy and on the needs for new policy dealing with current issues in the Antarctic as well as the Arctic.
The winning essay dealt with the principles of the Antarctic Treaty's Article IV to the Siachen Glacier in the disputed region of Kashmir. The second and third prizes were given to a young researcher analyzing the spread of commercial exploitation into Antarctica through bioprospecting and a high-school student applying the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) principles to the high seas. As will be shown by this poster, young researchers do not only appreciate and embrace opportunities given to them to present their ideas and analyses but have the potential to view existing issues from promising new and creative angles. Suggestions will be offered concerning the options policy makers and the academic community have to make the most of the capability of early-career researchers to view matters from a different perspective.
Antarctic Treaty, politics, essay
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