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WORKSHOPS AND FOCUS GROUPS
Co-production workshops and focus groups are some are most important tools in communicating, creating engagement and knowledge sharing. They are our strongest medium for bringing in human perspectives, pressures and impact into a holistic system approach. By these we wish to develop tools to identify and visualize human footprints and a tool to identify and mitigate pressures that human induce across ecosystems.
ANDØYA: FOCUS GROUPS AND INTERVIEWS
In August (14th of August to 1st of September) we had focus group interviews on the island of Andøya, which lies on the northern coast of Norway. Here we mapped out knowledge on biodiversity, blue carbon and kelp, and coastal and marine pressures connected to these, together with local fishermen and knowledge holders. It is simply incredible the knowledge that the people living on the coast have -they are the true biologists and naturalists.
You can read more about PhD student Zina Kebirs work here.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS WORKSHOP SERIES
In the aim of WP3 and WP4 getting input and data to the footprint maps and modelling, WP2 has created the “Your Voice Matters” co-production workshop series. Here we will be inviting students from different fields, both natural and social sciences, and map perceptions, values regarding climate mitigation, biodiversity and how they see the future, thus identify and map pressures on terrestrial and freshwater GHG systems. The broad representation of students from different fields will both give a voice to those who are our future and contribute with a holistic understanding to our project and work.
This workshop series will be traveling to different universities and conferences across the north and Arctic.
We have had workshops in Norway, Finland and Greenland engaging a wide group of youth, elders, Indigenous and First Nations, managers, knowledge holders, governments and researchers. All contributing in their own unique way.
WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
We will be using art-science workshops to both communicate but also create literacy regarding knowledge of our connection to environments through time, impacts and climate mitigation. Together we want to explore and discover using art as a medium and create a space where the students can express and tell their personal reflections.
The initial workshops will be based on coastal environments.
PODCASTS FOR SPREADING THE WORD
Follow our PhD student Joonatan Ala-Könni in his field called micro-meteorology, which is looking at ecosystems that are no larger than a few hundred meters at the very largest.
In the sub-arctic lakes and rivers form a large percentage of the total surface area of the space, thus they become a quite important player in carbon binding. There is surprisingly little data on the role lakes have in binding this carbon.
Join us for this conversation to learn more about a natural science view on climate change here.
EXHIBITIONS
Our first exhibition takes you to life in the kelp forests along the Norwegian coast. Kelp forests are important oases for life in sea and on land; providing food, shelter, a safe space for offspring to grow, it takes up carbon – and even dampens big waves. The exhibition presents life in the oases of the ocean, what kind of resource the kelp forest is for humans, and how we can work to protect it.
We have contributed to the exhibition through the stories and knowledge of human-nature interactions through time, its role in relation to carbon and how climate, human pressures and environmental change impacts the wonderful forest of the sea🌿
Visit Tromsø Museum or the exhibition as it travels throughout Norway!
FIELD SCHOOLS
Field school are an important way to communicate and educate future researchers. Here research based teaching is crucial. We have several field schools across the workpackages, these of which bring a interdisciplinary perspective and approach in hand.
View the intro to the CENSArctic fieldschool here.
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