C025
Making Cryosphere Fieldwork Safe, Enjoyable, and Welcoming for All
Session ID#: 250716
Session Description:
Fieldwork in cryosphere (Arctic, Antarctic, Alpine) regions is remote, logistically challenging, and expensive. Conditions can be harsh with little to no nearby infrastructure or outside communications. Yet, cryosphere fieldwork is crucial as these represent the most rapidly changing systems on Earth while being data poor. Conducting high-quality and sustainable cryosphere fieldwork requires making that experience safe, enjoyable, and welcoming for all. During this session, we hope to have conversations envisioning an improved cryosphere field culture and how to minimize barriers to entry. Potential topics can include best practices for field safety and well-being, reflections on field experiences, and suggestions for improvements. We invite submissions from all attendees involved with fieldwork in cryosphere regions, including but not limited to: students, field workers, professional organizations, field station representatives, project PIs, local (including indigenous) community representatives, and safety and logistics professionals. Abstract submissions are open to work and reflections beyond the published literature.
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Index Terms:
0475 Permafrost, cryosphere, and high-latitude processes [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0794 Instruments and techniques [CRYOSPHERE]
0799 General or miscellaneous [CRYOSPHERE]
Primary Convener: Katherine Braun, United States Permafrost Association, Fairbanks, United States; University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners: Christine Liang, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, Shannon Dillard, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States; United States Permafrost Association, Fairbanks, United States and Mariama C Dryák-Vallies, Polar Science Early Career Community Office, University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Benjamin Maglio, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States; United States Permafrost Association, Fairbanks, United States
Transforming Field Culture: Insights from the ADVANCEing FieldSafety Program (Invited) (1857018)
Anne U Gold, University of Colorado Boulder, Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Alice Frances Hill, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Nelson, New Zealand, Mariama C Dryák-Vallies, University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, United States, Emily Ward, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States, Blair Schneider, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, United States, Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, United States, Mylene Jacquemart, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Allison Mattheis, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Kristy French Tiampo, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States, Meredith Galanter Hastings, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Ryan Cassotto, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Matthew Dawson, CIRES Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Polar STEAM’s Pathway from Curiosity to Confidence: Preparing Participants to Thrive in Cryosphere Fieldwork (1870232)
Melissa Barker, Oregon State University, Polar STEAM, Corvallis, United States, Jami Ivory, Oregon State University, Polar STEAM, Corvallis, OR, United States, Julie Risien, Oregon State University, Office of Research Advancement, Corvallis, United States, Jennifer Hutchings, Oregon State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States and Kim Sarah Bernard, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Reflections from 10+ years of Conducting Safe and Inclusive Field Campaigns in Arctic Alaska (1893010)
Bob Bolton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Katrina E Bennett, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, United States, Robert Busey, No affiliation, Anchorage, United States, Colleen M. Iversen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Michael W Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Geoffrey W Schwaner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States and Neslihan Tas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Considerations for Balancing Fieldwork and Parenting Responsibilities (1927979)
Melissa Ward Jones, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Insitute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Christine Liang, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany and Tahnee Prior, Women of the Arctic, Rovaniemi, Finland
How Can We Better Take Care of Each Other in the Field? (1955216)
Katherine Braun1,2, Melissa Ward Jones2,3, Benjamin Maglio2,4, Julian Dann2,5, Shannon Dillard2,6 and Julia Warren2,7, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, (2)United States Permafrost Association, Fairbanks, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (7)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS), Flagstaff, United States
Antiracist, Decolonial, Intersectional Praxis: Reflections From the Field (Invited) (1991751)
Danny Khor, Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, Homer AK, United States; Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative, Remote, United States and Sarayu Ramnath, UC Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara CA, United States
–––––––– (2001693)
Alexandra Contosta, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
