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EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 89, NO. 33, doi:10.1029/2008EO330004, 2008

Preparing New Polar Researchers to Lead the Next International Polar Year

Lois Wardell

Latitude Engineering, Tucson, Ariz., USA


C. Susan Weiler

Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., USA


Sheldon Drobot

University of Colorado, Boulder, USA


Jenny Baeseman

International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA


Abstract

New Generation of Polar Researchers Symposium; Colorado Springs, Colorado, 4–11 May 2008; Logistics and physical conditions of polar research today, though challenging, are considered comfortable compared with what polar researchers endured 50 years ago during the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year (IGY). However, the intellectual terrain has grown far more demanding than that of the past. This new generation of polar researchers must not only achieve disciplinary expertise but also be ready to communicate beyond a specialist audience, conduct transformative research, participate in outreach and public communication, keep up with technological and computational developments, and support their research in an increasingly competitive funding environment, all while addressing the urgency of our changing planet.

Published 12 August 2008.

Index Terms: 1600 Global Change; 1621 Global Change: Cryospheric change (0776).

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Citation: Wardell, L., C. S. Weiler, S. Drobot, and J. Baeseman (2008), Preparing New Polar Researchers to Lead the Next International Polar Year, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(33), doi:10.1029/2008EO330004.