For many polar researchers, there is a drive to be in the Arctic, to understand it, care for it, and share its knowledge and passion with others
We are looking for potential contributors to submit works for this community anthology to help tell the Arctic story through the eyes of the polar research community.
To tell the Arctic story from the polar researcher community perspective through narrative, memoir, and art is unprecedented.
You do not have to be a “proper” polar research scientist, you can be a crew member, journalist, educator, artist, etc. who has supported the efforts of the polar research community and is interested in helping us tell this side of the Arctic story.
Possible submissions for this book can be photography, poetry, free-prompt writing, blog entries, music sheets, small words and phrases to help us explore themes around the Arctic. To see these themes and more about submission information, go to the Guidelines page.
The Idea of this story came from the need to humanize the transformative experiences behind the polar researcher.
The CIRES Education and Outreach Team are interested in the identity work of the polar research community and how to detangle the complex relationships we have with the Arctic and what this means to our global community. This project is inspired by Lianna Nixon’s, Letters to the Arctic, an award-winning exhibited project at San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences. This multilingual collaborative project asked MOSAiC scientists to write letters to the Arctic to explore themes around the Arctic and relationships they have with the Arctic, polar research, and community.