Scientists and communication officers from the Fram Centre family will give examples of good practices for communicating Arctic Science. The event is meant for further discussion and cooperation.
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Speakers:
Nellie Sofie Body, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute: Storytelling to share experiences and make sense of the world
Throughout history, people have used storytelling to share experiences and make sense of the world. For many, climate change feels abstract, distant, and complex, making it difficult to inform, educate, or engage them in a way that truly connects. Instead of merely presenting information, stories connect with audiences on emotional and personal levels.
Nellie Sofie Body, a scientist working at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, will share experiences from co-creating climate stories as part of the now-completed REACHOUT-project (2021-2025), which the European Commission funded. The stories developed as part of the project were co-created with 6 European cities, each with its own unique challenges and goals. Based on this co-creation experience, you will receive a set of practical tips and tricks for building your own climate story to share your scientific results engagingly.
Laura Pirard, Akvaplan-niva: How can you move from data and models to something that can be used by policy makers, practitioners, and citizens?
Laura Pirard is a post-doc fellow involved in the SLICE project, led by Akvaplan-niva and founded by the Research Council of Norway (The Polar Program).
The SLICE project has received substantial media coverage in Norway and abroad. The SLICE project investigates toxicological responses to multiple stressors in polar bears and cetaceans through a novel approach. As charismatic megafauna, polar bears and whales have a strong potential to attract public attention and raise environmental awareness. Popular scientific communication has been carried out through various channels.
Can stories be used to transform scientific results into engagement, awareness and action? How can you move from data and models to something that can be used by policy makers, practitioners, and citizens?
Kari Anne Bråthen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway: The story of the Rise of Crowberry
Kari Anne is a professor in community ecology with a focus on tundra areas and is particularly engaged in research on biodiversity change. She is involved in COAT at UiT and in ecology for landscape architecture and planning at AHO (Oslo School of Architecture and Design).
Evergreening of the Arctic is a phenomenon worth knowing, as it changes ecosystems on land. The NRC-fripro project MONEC finished in 2025 and, by its nature, was a basic science project addressing evergreening, in particular the encroachment of crowberries. The topic has been knocking on the door of nature management authorities for quite some years, but without success. We therefore took a new approach in reaching out with the knowledge, involving reindeer herders and sheep farmers who are stakeholders living off the very land the authorities were managing. If the topic were of interest to them, this would be a meaningful entry for communicating the science about evergreening.
Initially, we had ethics of collaboration high on the agenda, with long applications and plans for secure data management. We ended up using neither.
Rather, we had several op-eds about evergreening authored by both stakeholders and scientists of the project. We also hosted talks about evergreening, where we were both stakeholders and scientists on stage. Additionally, we created a Storymap on evergreening, featuring all stakeholders and scientists, and profiled in various media outlets alongside both scientists and stakeholders.
Moderator: Aksel Kjær Vidnes, Editor-in-Chief, forskning.no and ScienceNorway.no. Forskning.no is the largest online science news media in Northern Europe.
Contact
Helge M. Markusson, The Fram Centre
helge.markusson@framsenteret.n0
+47 48091373